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Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy, and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700
Susan Buck Sutton (Ed.)
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Description for Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy, and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700
Hardback. The essays in this volume are united by their attention to the many ways in which residents of Greece's southern Argolid peninsula--the focus of more ethnographic and ethnohistorical study than any other comparable region of Greece--have attempted to shelter, feed, and advance the economic situation of their families over the last three centuries. Editor(s): Sutton, Susan. Num Pages: 408 pages, 38 half-tones 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVG; JFSF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1179.
The essays in this volume are united by their attention to the many ways in which residents of Greece’s southern Argolid peninsula have attempted to shelter, feed, and advance the economic situation of their families over the last three centuries. This work juxtaposes a series of research projects undertaken in various communities, projects that, taken together, have made the southern Argolid the focus of more ethnographic and ethnohistorical study than any other comparable region of Greece. Ethnographic, geographic, historical, and archaeological methodologies are integrated to yield an image of the southern Argolid as a contingent countryside whose boundaries, character, people, ... Read more
The essays in this volume are united by their attention to the many ways in which residents of Greece’s southern Argolid peninsula have attempted to shelter, feed, and advance the economic situation of their families over the last three centuries. This work juxtaposes a series of research projects undertaken in various communities, projects that, taken together, have made the southern Argolid the focus of more ethnographic and ethnohistorical study than any other comparable region of Greece. Ethnographic, geographic, historical, and archaeological methodologies are integrated to yield an image of the southern Argolid as a contingent countryside whose boundaries, character, people, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804733151
SKU
V9780804733151
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About Susan Buck Sutton (Ed.)
Susan Buck Sutton is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University—Purdue University at Indianapolis. She is the author (with Tjeerd H. van Andel) of The Landscape and People of the Franchthi Region.
Reviews for Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy, and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700
"Within the disciplines of classics and the archaeology and cultural anthropology of Greece, this book is of central importance for two reasons. First, the authors present valuable documentation and intelligent discussion of a relatively neglected period of Greek history. Second, the Argolid Exploration Project is the father and long-awaited exemplar of a generation of writing by historians, classicists, and archaeologists ... Read more