Session 04. People and their Scapes: Dialogues from the Global South and beyond the Borders
ABSTRACT
The concept of 'landscape archaeology' in South -Asia articulates the dynamic relationships and experiences between humans and their ecological niches. It's an anthology of man-land experiences embedded in different cultures irrespective of space and time. It has already been established that particular space has a direct or indirect influence on cultural developments and dynamics of human society, conversely, humans shape their immediate landscape pursuant to their necessity since the past. However, South- Asia has diverse scapes characterized by distinct cultural patterns, prevalent in different developmental trajectories in the socio-cultural locals. To date, South-Asian scapes have been studied primarily from environmental and climatic lenses. For, last few decades, various interdisciplinary tools have been implemented for a holistic understanding of the man and land relationships of past societies. Diverse analogies like ritualistic patterns, on and off-shore maritime interactions, ambits of artisans, and literary traditions have been engulfed in the archaeological study of the South-Asian landscape. In this background, we ask the role of the small scapes as a functional unit or an integrated segment in a larger landscape? We enquire how human behavior has characterized/utilized the human scapes for ages in the diverse topography of South Asia? How did even macro and micro scapes resonate the favours like 'gastropolitics' or 'societal raptures'? We inquire about the ancient sacred geography, old maritime networks, and cultic practices, which have redefined the relationships between the humans and their scapes of that particular terrain for ages. The theme of this session aims to focus on those previously unexplored approaches, which are also conducive tools for understanding the 'Phenomenology' of different microcosms located in diverse corners of South-Asian topography. The conjectures like 'culinary landscape,’ 'gender scapes,’ 'tasks capes,’ 'sacred scapes,’ 'traditional knowledge scapes,' and 'heritage scapes' will be addressed within this session.
The proposed session invites contributions that focus on the above praxis and dynamic relationships between people and their scapes (smaller within the larger), preferably from Global South. We look forward to exploring the constant connectivity and mobility within a landscape, followed by the continuous utilization of landscape since the past throughout different periods in South Asia. We are also looking for the papers that also delves with comparative studies beyond the borders. Through our papers, we aim to explore the jigsaw puzzle of the myriad archaeological scapes of the Subcontinent and try to connect the zigsaws (scapes) for a holistic understanding of the physical and meaningful aspects of the human and scape relationship.

KEYWORDS: Landscape archaeology, South Asia, macro and micro landscapes, Phenomenological landscape, culinary scapes, gender scapes, sacred scapes, tasks scape, Heritage scape


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