Economies and the Transformation of Landscape

by Cliggett, Lisa; Pool, Christopher A.; Bolender, Douglas James; Cliggett, Lisa; Crothers, George M.; Doyel, David E.; Durrenberger, E. Paul; Earle, Timothy; Erazo, Juliet S.; Fratkin, Elliot; Håkansson, N Thomas; Little, Walter E.; MacLennan, Carol; Matejo

• ISBN13: 9780759111165
• ISBN10: 0759111162
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-24
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

The theme of this volume is change, specifically the dynamic relationship between physical landscapes and economic practices. The contributors to Economies and the Transformation of Landscape consider the relationship between the environment and human activity--from different perspectives and with regard to varied timescales--to arrive at various understandings of economical-ecological transformations and what they can reveal about human culture. While each chapter stands on its own, offering detailed insights into particular cases, the volume as a whole challenges us to think broadly, and reflexively, about how human action affects the environment and changes to the environment affect human action.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Introduction: Economies and the Transformation of Landscapes	p. 1
Engineered Landscapes in Historical Frames	p. 17
The Engineered Landscapes of Irrigation	p. 19
Reading History in an Irrigated Landscape: The Drama of the Commons in the Andes	p. 47
Household Labor and Landscape Transformation in Ancient Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico	p. 77
Mining and Ranching on the Landscape of Southwestern New Mexico, 1850-2005	p. 103
Transformations, Political Strategies, and Decision Making	p. 125
From Foraging to Farming: The Emergence of Exclusive Property Rights in Kentucky Prehistory	p. 127
Pastures Lost: The Decline of Mobile Pastoralism among Maasai and Rendille in Kenya, East Africa	p. 149
Landscape Acts and Property Regimes in the Ecuadorean Amazon	p. 169
Coffee, Abolition, and Immigration: Driving Forces in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Landscape Transformation	p. 193
Political Economy and Institutional Interactions	p. 215
Unsettled Landscapes: Settlement Patterns and the Development of Social Inequality in Northern Iceland	p. 217
The Decentralized Landscape: Regional Wealth and the Expansion of Production in Northern Tanzania before the Eve of Colonialism	p. 239
Maya Handicraft Vendors, Crime, and the Social Re/construction of Market Spaces in a Tourism Town	p. 267
Commercial Transformation of a Philippine Cityscape: A Case from San Fernando City, La Union	p. 291
Index	p. 311
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