Landscapes of Clearance

Amy Gazin-Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Assumption College, Massachusetts, USA. Amy is particularly interested in studying continuity and change in rural settlement and relationships between folklore and archaeology, she edited a volume on this topic with C. Holtorf Folklore and Archaeology (Routledge, 1999) and is co-Director of a five-year project investigating medieval settlement in Strathnaver, in the north-west of Scotland, in collaboration with Glasgow University.Angele P Smith lectures in Anthropology at University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include landscapes, place and space, the construction and negotiation of cultural identities and the politics of representation, focussing primarily on Ireland.Gazin-Schwartz, Amy is the author of 'Landscapes of Clearance', published 2007 under ISBN 9781844721580 and ISBN 1844721582.