Marking the Land

William Lovis, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Curator of Anthropology, MSU Museum, Michigan State UniversityRobert Whallon, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Curator of Mediterranean Prehistory, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan

• 1. Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Perception and Landscape “Marking”: The Multidimensional Construction of MeaningWilliam A. Lovis and Robert WhallonSection I: The Northern Latitudes2. Initializing the Landscape: Chipewyan Construction of Meaning in a Recently Occupied EnvironmentRobert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach3. Places on the Blackfoot Homeland: Markers of Cosmology, Social Relationships and HistoryGerald A. Oetelaar4. Markers in Space and Time: Reflections on the Nature of Place Names as Events in the Inuit Approach to the Territory Claudio Aporta5. Inuksuk, Sled Shoe, Placename: Past Inuit EthnogeographiesPeter J. Whitridge6. Network Maintenance in Big Rough Spaces with Few People: The Labrador Innu-Naskapi or MontagnaisWilliam A. LovisSection II: The Southern Latitudes7. Physical and Linguistic Marking of the Seri Landscape – Are They Connected?Carolyn K. O’Meara8. Bonescapes: Engaging People and Land with Animal Bones among South American Tropical ForagersGustavo G. Politis9. Unfolding Cultural Meanings: Wayfinding Practices Among the San of the Central Kalahari Akira Takada10. Continuity and Change in Warlpiri Practices of Marking the LandscapePetronella Vaarzon-Morel11. Signaling Presence: How Batek and Penan Hunter-Gatherers in Malaysia Mark the Landscape Lye Tuck PoSection III: Synthesis12. Marked Sacred Places of Hunter-Gatherer BandsRobert Whallon13. Hunter-Gatherer Landscape Perception and Landscape “Marking”: The Multidimensional Construction of MeaningRobert Whallon and William A. Lovis

‘This indispensable theoretical and empirical companion to editors Brian Codding and Karen Kramer's Why Forage? (CH, Jan'17, 54-2326) focuses on understanding the multidimensional bases for hunter-gatherer perceptions and constructions of environmental value and meaning. Thirteen essays are appropriately divided among specialists in archaeology, ethnography/ethnology, ethnoarchaeology, and anthropological linguistics. They convincingly demonstrate that the creation, marking, and maintenance of sacred places help to "embed patterns of behavior and behavioral responses that articulate with environmental variability [both spatial and temporal] in an adaptive way." Excellent addition to the archaeological and ethnographic literature on hunting-gathering societies. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.’ - B. Tavakolian, Denison University, in CHOICE"This volume should be in university libraries, and there are enough outstanding individual papers and enough topical variety and theoretical coherence overall to make this a useful addition to personal libraries." - Aubrey Cannon, McMaster University, Canada