Mediterranean landscape archaeology: Marginality and the culture-nature 'divide'

Kevin Walsh

doi:10.1080/01426390802323773

Mediterranean landscape archaeology: Marginality and the culture-nature 'divide'

Kevin Walsh

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Abstract

The so-called culture-nature divide manifests itself in the ways in which many landscape archaeologists and historians write about landscape. This divide is in part a consequence of the differences between the 'scientific' method and the approaches adopted by cultural landscape archaeologists and historians. In Mediterranean landscape archaeology, this split is characterised by the ways in which the history of erosion and landscape degradation are researched and written about. Employing ideas derived from Actor-Network Theory, two case studies from the south of France illustrate the potential for more nuanced interpretations of how different groups of people may have perceived and responded to erosion within landscape types that are often classified as 'marginal' in one sense or another.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	547-564
Number of pages	18
Journal	Landscape Research
Volume	33
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01426390802323773
Publication status	Published - 2008

Keywords

landscape archaeology
Mediterranean France
Alps
Actor-Network Theory
erosion
PROVENCE
HISTORY
RWANDA

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