ANTH 590
ADVANCED SEMINAR: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
SPRING 2009
FRI 1-3:40, STV 2065
Prof. Margaret Purser
Course Readings
Required text: Alanen and Melnick, Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America, 2000
Additional course reading sources
Useful course links (01/23/09)
Readings for Feb. 13: Geographical Approaches
Paul Groth, "Frameworks for Cultural Landscape Study"
Richard Francaviglia, "The Cemetery as an Evolving Cultural Landscape"
Richard Francaviglia, "Walt Disney's Frontierland as an Allegorical Map
of the American West"
Charles Cobb, "Mississippian Chiefdoms: How Complex?"
Ann Stahl, "Political Economic Mosaics"
Carol Crumley, "Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies"
Readings for Feb. 20: Archaeological Approaches
Wendy Ashmore and Bernard Knapp, "Archaeological Landscapes: Constructed,
Conceptualized, Ideational"
Audrey Horning, "Materiality and Mutable Landscapes"
Martin Gallivan, "Powhatan’s Werowocomoco"
Readings for Feb. 27: Anthropological Approaches
Buchanan, "Nonplaces: Space in the Age of Supermodernity"
Lloyd, "Airport Technology, Travel and Consumption"
Hoelscher and Alderman, "Memory and Place"
Meskell and
Meyer, "Heritage as Therapy: Set Pieces from a New South Africa"
Bender, "Landscapes on the Move"
Purser, "Casas, Ranchos, Criollo Chickens, and the Five Daughters of Doña Natividad"
"Casas" biblio
Readings for March 6: "Community-based Approaches"
Alanen, "Considering the Ordinary" (in textbook)
Aponte-Pares, "Appropriating Place in Puerto Rican Barrios" (in textbook)
Waterton, "Whose Sense of Place?"
Morgan et al, "Finding a Place for the Commonplace"
Readings for March 20:
Melnick, "Considering Nature and Culture in Historic Landscape Preservation" (in textbook)
Ebey's Landing review
US ICOMOS Natchitoches Declaration
Callicott, "What 'Wilderness' in Frontier Ecosystems?"
Guevara et al, "The Landscape Approach: Designing New Reserves for Protection
of Biological and Cultural Diversity in Latin America"
Readings for March 27:
Hardesty (in textbook)
Nicholas, "Decolonizing the Archaeological Landscape"
Daenke, "A Strange Multiplicity of Voices"
Example from Sonoma Coast:
"A Meaningful Disturbance of the Earth"
Dowdall and Parrish SAA paper
Kashaya TE application
First graphic
Second graphic
Readings for April 3: Interpretation
ICOMOS Ename Charter
NPS Heritage Interpretation Overview
Readings for April 24: Intangible Heritage PLUS Commemorative Landscapes
"The Scope and Definitions of Heritage: From Tangible to Intangible"
"Managing Intangible Heritage at Tsodilo"
“ ' Put Your Very Special Place on the North Country Map!': Community Participation in Cultural Landmarking"
AND
"Reshaping Waterloo: History, Archaeology, and the European Heritage Industry"
"A Slavery Museum? Race, Memory, and Landscape in Fredericksburg, Virginia"
"Monumental geographies: re-situating the state"
Readings for May 8: Maritime and Industrial Landscapes
"New York City’s Oyster Barges"
"The maritime cultural landscape"
"The North American Manufacturing Belt in 1880: A Cluster of Regional Industrial Systems or One Large Industrial District?"
"Mining landscape: A cultural tourist opportunity or an environmental problem?"
"‘Our Tyne’: Iconic Regeneration and the Revitalisation of Identity in Newcastle Gateshead"
Course Assignments
First Assignment: Comparative Policy Documents
Optional Fieldtrips
Sacramento River Delta: April 25, 2009
Purser and Shaver, 2008: "Plats and Place: The Transformation of 19th Century Speculation Townsites on the Sacramento River"
San Francisco Bay Maritime
Olompali State Park
Sonoma Coast
Paradise Valley, Nevada