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Interpretive Perspectives in Landscape Archaeology

Reading reviewer and discussant: Dr. Kryder-Reid

READING ASSIGNMENT

Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, "The California Mission Garden: Invented Landscapes and Layered Meanings." An invited lecture presented at the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999. on reserve

WEB SITE

California Mission Studies Association http://www.ca-missions.org/

LESSON PLAN

1. Review of article (with slides)
2. Consideration of the common questions
   1. What, if any, is the definition of "landscape" used in the reading?
   2. What is the scale of landscape being studied?
   3. What kinds of data are being analyzed (ex. artifacts, soil layers and features, botanical remains, maps, photographs, paintings, oral history, documents such as deeds, wills, correspondence, diaries)?
   4. What are the key words in the reading?
   5. How do the authors characterize their theoretical approach to the landscape?
   6. How would you articulate the one main idea of this article?
   7. What did you learn from this article?
3. Class discussion (priming the pump)
   1. What landscapes or spaces have you ever encountered that you would describe as exercising some sort of power or control?
   2. What were they and how did they do it?
4. Small group discussions
   1. What experiences have you each had in which you felt the space or landscape itself exerted control?
   2. What, if anything, do these experiences share in common?
   3. What methods and/or research questions might you develop if you were an archaeologist investigating these landscapes 200 years from now?
5. Share back with class your findings
   1. What did your landscapes have in common?
   2. What research methods and questions would you propose?

HANDOUT

Guide for Reading Review and Discussion

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