Historical ecologies, heterarchies and transtemporal landscapes: introductory perspectives / Celeste Ray -- Dialectic in historical ecology / William H. Marquardt -- Historical ecology and longitudinal research strategies around Lake Mývatn, Iceland / Thomas H. McGovern, George Hambrecht and Megan Hicks -- Gender, feminism and heterarchy / Janet E. Levy -- "Can you hear me now?": heterarchy as an instrument and outcome of collective action in Iron Age and medieval Europe / T.L. Thurston -- Reconstructing African landscape historical ecologies: an integrative approach for managing biocultural heritage / Anneli Ekblom, Paul Lane and Paul Sinclair -- Resilience of agrarian land use practices in Burgundy, France : evolving approaches to historical ecology / Seth Murray, Elizabeth Anne Jones and Scott Madry -- Resilience, heterarchy and the Native American cultural landscapes of the Yazoo Basin and the Mississippi River Delta / Christopher B. Rodning and Jayur M. Mehta -- Mapping British and Irish hillforts / Gary Lock and Ian Ralston -- Humanizing the western Cantabrian mountains in northwestern Iberia: a diachronic perspective on the exploitation of the uplands during late prehistory / David González Álvarez -- The end of Iron Age societies in northwestern Iberia: egalitarianism, heterarchy and hierarchy in contexts of interaction / Inés Sastre and Brais X. Currás -- Iron Age societies at work: towns, kinship and territory in historical analogies / Manuel Fernández-Götz and Raquel Liceras-Garrido -- Empires of stone, politics of shadow: the historical ecology and political economy of mortuary monuments in Mongolia (1500 BC- 1400 AD) / Erik G. Johannesson -- A landscape of ancestors: looking back and thinking forward / Matthew Murray and Bettina Arnold -- Civic-ceremonial transition at Lambityeco, Oaxaca, Mexico / Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas -- Sacred wells across the longue durée / Celeste Ray -- Afterword: integrating time and space in dynamic systems / Carole L. Crumley.
Summary:
Interlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human-environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. Historical Ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of the Earth's biophysical system with the history of humanity. Considering landscape as the spatial manifestation of the relations between humans and their environments through time, the authors in this volume examine the multi-directional power dynamics that have shaped settlement, agrarian, monumental and ritual landscapes through the long-term field projects they have pursued around the globe. Examining both biocultural stability and change through the longue duree in different regions, these essays highlight intersectionality and counterpoised power flows to demonstrate that alongside and in spite of hierarchical ideologies, the daily life of power is heterarchical. Knowledge of transtemporal human-environmental relationships is necessary for strategizing socioecological resilience. Historical Ecology shows how the past can be useful to the future.
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