Economies and the transformation of landscape /
Economies and the Transformation of Landscape explores both the general and specific ways in which local economic ventures around the world, such as mining, ranching, and farming, affect the environment.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Altamira Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ;
v. 25. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Economies and the Transformation of Landscapes
- Part I: Engineered Landscapes in Historical Frames
- 2. The Engineered Landscapes of Irrigation
- 3. Reading History in an Irrigated Landscape: The Drama of the Commons in the Andes
- 4. Household Labor and Landscape Transformation in Ancient Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, Mexico
- 5. Mining and Ranching on the Landscape of Southwestern New Mexico, 1850-2005
- Part II: Transformations, Political Strategies, and Decision Making
- 6. From Foraging to Farming: The Emergence of Exclusive Property Rights in Kentucky Prehistory
- 7. Pastures Lost: The Decline of Mobile Pastoralism among Maasai and Rendille in Kenya, East Africa
- 8. Landscape Acts and Property Regimes in the Ecuadorean Amazon
- 9. Coffee, Abolition, and Immigration: Driving Forces in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Landscape Transformation
- Part III: Political Economy and Institutional Interactions
- 10. Unsettled Landscapes: Settlement Patterns and the Development of Social Inequality in Northern Iceland
- 11. The Decentralized Landscape: Regional Wealth and the Expansion of Production in Northern Tanzania before the Eve of Colonialism
- 12. Maya Handicraft Vendors, Crime, and the Social Re/construction of Market Spaces in a Tourism Town