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Book SynopsisAmerican, Australian and British scholars examine the significance of the use of landscape for studies of identity
Table of Contents1. Introduction by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern
2. Iconic Images: Landscape and History in the Local Poetry of the Scottish Borders by John Gray
3. Ceide Fields: Natural Histories of a Buried Landscape by Stuart McLean
4. Landscape Representations: Place and Identity in the Nineteenth Century Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland by Angele Smith
5. Memories of Ancestry in the Forests of Madagascar by Janice Harper
6. Moon Shadows: Aboriginal and European Heroes in an Australian Landscape by Veronica Strang
7. History, Mobility and Land Use Interests of Aborigines and Farmers in the
East Kimberly in North-West Australia by Ruth Lane
8. Co-present Landscapes: Routes and Rootedness as Sources of Identity in
Highlands New Guinea by Michael O'Hanlon and Linda Frankland
9. Island Builders: Landscape and Historicity among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands by Pei-yi Guo
10. Biography, Ecology, Political Economy: Seascape and Conflict in Jamaica by James G. Carrier
Epilogue by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart
