Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.

Description:

xxxiii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.

Summary:

Annotation A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos.

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ISBN:

0816637563 (HC)
9780816637560 (HC)
0816637571 (PB)
9780816637577 (PB)

Subject:

Human geography.
Géographie humaine.
human geography.
Anthropogeografie
Humanismus
Aufsatzsammlung
Sociale geografie.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Adams, Paul C.
Hoelscher, Steven D.
Till, Karen E.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217189
Call No.: GF41 .T48 2001
Status: Available