18. The Edge of the Sacred, the Edge of Death: Sensual Inscriptions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. Part I. ROCK-ART
6. 2. The Signature of Terror: Violence, Memory, and Landscape at Freeport 13
7. 3. Ritual Response: Place Marking and the Colonial Frontier in Australia 27
8. 4. Spaces of Resistance: Graffiti and Indigenous Place Markings in the Early European Contact Period of Northern Australia 42
9. 5. Rock-Art as an Indicator of Changing Social Geographies in Central Australia 61
10. 6. Wahi Pana: Legendary Places on Hawai‘i Island 79
11. 7. Making Sense of Petroglyphs: The Sound of Rock-Art 93
12. 8. The Narrow Doors of the Desert: Ancient Egyptian Roads in the Theban Western Desert 104
13. 9. Rock-Art and Landscapes 122
14. Part II. MONUMENTS
15. 10. A Sense of Time: Cultural Markers in the Mesolithic of Southern England? 139
16. 11. A Place of Special Meaning: Interpreting Pre-Historic Monuments in the Landscape 154
17. 12. Monuments in the Pre-Historic Landscape of the Maltese Islands: Ritual and Domestic Transformations 176
18. 13. Imperial Inscriptions in the Aztec Landscape 187
19. 14. Negotiating the Village: Community Landscapes in the Late Pre-Historic American Southwest 200
20. Part III. BEYOND THE MARK
21. 15. Anchoring Mobile Subjectivities: Home, Identity, and Belonging among Italian Australian Migrants 219
22. 16. Inscriptions as Initial Conditions: Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia) and the Silencing of the Mark 230
23. 17. Sarawak on Stage: The Sarawak Cultural Village and the Colonization of Cultural Space in the Making of State Identity 240
24. 18. The Edge of the Sacred, the Edge of Death: Sensual Inscriptions 253
25. 19. The Work of Inscription in Foi Poetry 270
26. Contributors 285
27. Index 289