Engineering Mountain Landscapes: An Anthropology of Social Investment - Softcover

Laura L. Scheiber (editor) & Maria Nieves Zedeño (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1607814331 ISBN 13: 9781607814337

Publisher: The University of Utah Press, 2015

Synopsis

Humans have occupied mountain environments and relied on mountain resources since the terminal Pleistocene. Their continuous interaction with the land from generation to generation has left material imprints ranging from anthropogenic fires to vision quest sites. The diverse case studies presented in this collection explore the material record of North American mountain dwellers and habitual users of high-elevation resources in terms of social investment―the intergenerational commitment of a group to a particular landscape.

Contributors look creatively at the significance of social investment and its material and nonmaterial consequences, addressing landscape engineering at different times using diverse, theoretical standpoints and archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data from varied mountain environments. Engineering Mountain Landscapes offers substantive ideas of broad intellectual interest, specific case studies with state-of-the-art methodology, and a wealth of comparative data.

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About the Author

Laura L. Scheiber is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the William R. Adams Zooarchaeology Laboratory at Indiana University, USA, and coeditor of two books. Her research interests include hunter-gatherer identities, zooarchaeology, ethnohistory, and culture contact and colonialism.

María Nieves Zedeño is a research anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. She has authored one monograph and coedited three books. Her research focuses on contemporary archaeological theory and North America’s hunter-gatherer societies, past and present.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of Utah Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1607814331
• ISBN 13: 9781607814337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264