{"product_id":"9780815363446-old-lands","title":"Old Lands","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese. \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOld Lands\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman periegete, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians. It explores long-term changes in society and technology across time in this region.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOld Lands\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers on an epic journey through the legion spaces and times of the Eastern Peloponnese, trailing in the footsteps of a Roman \u003cem\u003eperiegete\u003c\/em\u003e, an Ottoman traveler, antiquarians, and anonymous agrarians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing waters in search of rest through the lens of Lucretian poetics, Christopher Witmore reconstitutes an untimely mode of ambulatory writing, chorography, mindful of the challenges we all face in these precarious times. Turning on pressing concerns that arise out of object-oriented encounters, \u003ci\u003eOld Lands\u003c\/i\u003e ponders the disappearance of an agrarian world rooted in the Neolithic, the transition to urban-styles of living, and changes in communication, movement, and metabolism, while opening fresh perspectives on long-term inhabitation, changing mobilities, and appropriation through pollution. Carefully composed with those objects encountered along its varied paths, this book offers an original and wonderous account of a region in twenty-seven segments, and fulfills a longstanding ambition within archaeology to generate a polychronic narrative that stands as a complement and alternative to diachronic history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Lands will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and scholars of the Eastern Peloponnese. Those interested in the long-term changes in society, technology, and culture in this region will find this book captivating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41013522497633,"sku":"9780815363446","price":52.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/d012affee59e559c3409f0ff37928151.png?v=1695827836","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780815363446-old-lands","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}