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1 online resource (325 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Archaeology |
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Routledge studies in archaeology.
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| Contents |
Cover; Original Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; 1 An Archaeology of Land Ownership: Introducing the Debate; 2 Land Tenure, Social Relations and Social Landscapes; 3 Minoan Lands? Some Remarks on Land Ownership on Bronze Age Crete; 4 Where Mythical Space Lies: Land Ownership versus Land Use in the Northern Bronze Age; 5 Pervasive Assumptions of Ownership: Land, Gender and Reproductive Narratives; 6 Land and People in Tribal Societies: Aspects of Land Possession in Oman |
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7 Ownership or Tenure? A Case Study of Tribal Land Use from the Cusp of Prehistory8 Harnessing the Land: The Place of Pioneering in Early Modern British Columbia; 9 Losing and Repossessing Land and Ancestral Landscapes: Archaeology and Land Reforms in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe; 10 Land, Power and Status in Material Culture Studies: A Case Study on Alienability and Inalienability of Land in Brazil; 11 Land Ownership and Rights of Use on Land in the South Italian Countryside: Ethnoarchaeological and Historical Perspectives |
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12 To Own or to Share? The Crisis of the Past at the Onset of the 21st Century13 Concluding Comment: Land, Life and the Dwelling Perspective; List of Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect means. Particularly noteworthy is the tendency to portray land ownership as the driving force behind the emergence of social complexity, a primordial ingredient in the processes that led to the political and economic expansion of prehistoric societies. The association between people and land in all o |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Catapoti, Despina
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| ISBN |
9781135050443 |
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1135050449 |
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