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The chapters all effectively combine sharp description with insightful theoretical discussion to broaden and deepen the reader's understanding of abandonment and shifting settlement patterns in each culture. The book is readable and engaging, and it should appeal to both students and scholars who are interested in the dynamics of settlement, mobility, and the 'mysteries' of abandonment. --Latin American Antiquity Excellent book . . . . History and engagement do not end when people leave a place. --American Antiquity

Excellent book . . . . History and engagement do not end when people leave a place. --American Antiquity The chapters all effectively combine sharp description with insightful theoretical discussion to broaden and deepen the reader's understanding of abandonment and shifting settlement patterns in each culture. The book is readable and engaging, and it should appeal to both students and scholars who are interested in the dynamics of settlement, mobility, and the 'mysteries' of abandonment. --Latin American Antiquity

"""The chapters all effectively combine sharp description with insightful theoretical discussion to broaden and deepen the reader’s understanding of abandonment and shifting settlement patterns in each culture. The book is readable and engaging, and it should appeal to both students and scholars who are interested in the dynamics of settlement, mobility, and the 'mysteries' of abandonment."" —Latin American Antiquity ""Excellent book . . . . History and engagement do not end when people leave a place."" —American Antiquity“[Detachment from Place]presents case studies from around the world and from different time periods to demonstrate how sites are rarely completely abandoned; instead, they are revisited, repurposed and reimagined by people old and new. The volume thus shifts emphasis from abandonment to interrogate how and why people leave places, how leaving impacts people and landscapes, and how people engage with ‘abandoned’ landscapes.” —Antiquity"

""The chapters all effectively combine sharp description with insightful theoretical discussion to broaden and deepen the reader’s understanding of abandonment and shifting settlement patterns in each culture. The book is readable and engaging, and it should appeal to both students and scholars who are interested in the dynamics of settlement, mobility, and the 'mysteries' of abandonment."" —Latin American Antiquity ""Excellent book . . . . History and engagement do not end when people leave a place."" —American Antiquity“[Detachment from Place]presents case studies from around the world and from different time periods to demonstrate how sites are rarely completely abandoned; instead, they are revisited, repurposed and reimagined by people old and new. The volume thus shifts emphasis from abandonment to interrogate how and why people leave places, how leaving impacts people and landscapes, and how people engage with ‘abandoned’ landscapes.” —Antiquity

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Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire is is assistant professor of anthropology at Mount Royal University and Editor-in-Chief of The Mayanist. He has received awards from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec: Société et Culture. His work has been published in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Ancient Mesoamerica, Geoarchaeology, and Latin American Antiquity.   Scott Macrae is adjunct graduate and research faculty in the Anthropology Department at Trent University and co-director of Integrated Socio-Ecological History of Residential Patterning, Agricultural Practices, and Water Management at the Classical Burmese (Bama) capital of Bagan, Myanmar (11th to 14th Century CE) Project (IRAW@Bagan). His research has received support from National Geographic Society and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He has published works in Advances in Archaeological Practice, Journal of Archaeology and Fine Arts in Southeast Asia, Latin American Antiquity, and American Journal of Physical Anthropology.  

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