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Textures of place : exploring humanist geographies
Title:
Textures of place : exploring humanist geographies
Author:
Adams, Paul C.
ISBN:
9780816637560

9780816637577
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2001.
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 461 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Place in context : rethinking humanist geographies / Introduction : landscapes of dominance and affection / Fantasies in dark places : the cultural geography of the American movie palace / When less is more : absence and landscapes in a California ghost town / Sense of place as a positional good : locating Bedford in space and time / Reading the wetlands / Making a pet of nature / Landscape as a contested topos of place, community, and self / Introduction : segmented worlds and selves / World and its identity crisis / Critical description of confused geographies / Making up the tramp : toward a critical geosophy / Peripatetic imagery and peripatetic sense of place / Fragmented individual and the academic realm -- Michael Curry -- Introduction : moralities and imagination / Place, power, and the good / Attending to the void : geography and madness / Gift of presence : the act of leaving artifacts at shrines, memorials, and other tragedies

Reimagining national identity : "Chapters of Life" at the German Historical Museum in Berlin / Moral maps and moral places in the work of Francis Parkman / Introduction : cosmos versus hearth / Geography's cosmos : the dream and the whole round earth / Bone-crones have no hearth : some women in the medieval wilderness / But it's (not) supposed to feel like home : constructing the cosmopolitan hearth / Conversing diversity : provincial cosmopolitanism and America's multicultural heritage / Body, self, and landscape : a geophilosophical inquiry into the place-world / Geographer as humanist
Abstract:
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.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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npmlib 10905823 GF41 T48 yh
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