Textures of place : exploring humanist geographies / Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till, editors.

Other author Adams, Paul C.
Other author Hoelscher, Steven D.
Other author Till, Karen E.
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.
Descriptionxxxiii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Human geography.

Contents Place in context : rethinking humanist geographies / Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till -- Introduction : landscapes of dominance and affection / David Ley -- Fantasies in dark places : the cultural geography of the American movie palace / Karal Ann Marling -- When less is more : absence and landscapes in a California ghost town / Dydia DeLyser -- Sense of place as a positional good : locating Bedford in space and time / James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan -- Reading the wetlands / William Howarth -- Making a pet of nature / David Lowenthal -- Landscape as a contested topos of place, community, and self / Kenneth R. Olwig -- Introduction : segmented worlds and selves / John Paul Jones III -- World and its identity crisis / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Critical description of confused geographies / Edward Relph -- Making up the tramp : toward a critical geosophy / Tim Cresswell -- Peripatetic imagery and peripatetic sense of place / Paul C. Adams -- Fragmented individual and the academic realm -- Michael Curry -- Introduction : moralities and imagination / Anne Buttimer -- Place, power, and the good / Robert D. Sack -- Attending to the void : geography and madness / Patrick McGreevy -- Gift of presence : the act of leaving artifacts at shrines, memorials, and other tragedies / Miles Richardson.
Contents Reimagining national identity : "Chapters of Life" at the German Historical Museum in Berlin / Karen E. Till -- Moral maps and moral places in the work of Francis Parkman / Jonathan M. Smith -- Introduction : cosmos versus hearth / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Geography's cosmos : the dream and the whole round earth / Denis Cosgrove -- Bone-crones have no hearth : some women in the medieval wilderness / Marijane Osborn and Gillian R. Overing -- But it's (not) supposed to feel like home : constructing the cosmopolitan hearth / April R. Veness -- Conversing diversity : provincial cosmopolitanism and America's multicultural heritage / Steven Hoelscher -- Body, self, and landscape : a geophilosophical inquiry into the place-world / Edward S. Casey -- Geographer as humanist / J. Nicholas Entrikin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00009993
ISBN0816637563 (HC)
ISBN0816637571 (PB)

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Joyner General Stacks GF41 .T48 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold