Esteemed Collegues,
  Enclosed is a paper call for a session Stacey Camp and myself are 
organizing for the 2007 SHAs. Our discussants for this session are Don 
Hardesty and Karen Metheny. For those of you conducting research 
relating to archaeological landscapes and productive enterprise, please 
feel free to submit paper ideas to the email addresses provided below. 
Thank you.

Regards,

 Stathi Pappas


 Landscapes of Labor: A Phenomenological Approach

  The purpose of this session is to disseminate scholarship that 
analyzes differing emic perspectives of landscapes of labor caused by 
industrial ideology, personal identities, gender norms, and class roles 
within industrial societies. Scholarship from all regions and time 
periods are most welcome, although studies regarding industrial and 
proto-industrial landscapes are especially encouraged. Some studies 
have treated landscapes of labor as settings for control, dominance and 
resistance, discourse, creation of mythology and history, and social 
engineering. However, most studies indirectly examine the differing 
goals, interpretations, and values of landscape inhabitants. 
Phenomenological approaches provide an analytical framework 
particularly suited to exploring the multivocal and often didactic 
nature of landscapes of labor. Phenomenology is the understanding of 
space and place as it is experienced by the individual. The concepts of 
space as created by social relations and places as centers of human 
significance reinforce the subjective and experiential activity of 
landscape maintenance. The heterogeneity found among workers, managers, 
aristocrats of labor, and owners calls for analysis of how differing 
perceptions of the same landscape could create different social 
realities. Landscape is not passive, just as interaction is not simply 
discourse that is detached from importance or subjectivity. Instead, 
landscape becomes an empowering entity that is used and manipulated by 
individuals and groups to achieve goals. This means that categories 
such as class, gender, ethnicity, etc., provide a multiplicity of lines 
by which an individual may interpret a landscape based on their own 
self-identity. Some potential paper topics include:

  • The intersection of pre-industrial immigrant labor forces with the 
industrial landscape of America in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • The expression, maintenance, or changing role of ethnic identities 
in the face of industrial ideology manifested in landscapes.
  • The adoption, rejection, or creation of gender roles imbedded within 
landscapes of labor.
  • The effect of class and status on the creation or reaffirmation of 
gender roles within the labor landscape.
 • Landscape learning on the part of pre-industrial laborers.
  • Cognitive models of strife surrounding labor landscapes based on 
different categories of personal identity.
  • Pre-industrial landscape paradigms applied to industrialism creating 
hybrid landscapes.

  If interested in participating please provide a short synopsis of your 
research to Efstathios I. Pappas and Stacey Camp at:

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 Efstathios I. Pappas, MS
 Doctoral Student
 Department of Anthropology/096
 University of Nevada, Reno
 Reno, NV 89557
  (775) 323-5730