High Places : Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice.
Title:
High Places : Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice.
Author:
Cosgrove, Denis E.
ISBN:
9780857713223
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: High Places - Denis Cosgrove and Veronica della Dora -- Part 1: Science and Formal Knowledge in High Places -- 2. Walking in Circles: Cognition and Science in High Places - William L. Fox -- 3. The Ends of the Earth: Narrating Scott, Amundsen and Antarctica - John Wylie -- 4. Climates of Sight: Mistaken Visibilities, Mirages and 'Seeing Beyond' in Antarctica - Kathryn Yusoff -- 5. Core Matter: Greenland, Denver and the GISP2 Ice Core - Heather Frazar -- 6. Mountains: Between Pure Reason and Embodied Experience: Philippe Buache and Alexander von Humboldt - Bernard Debarbieux -- 7. Domesticating High Places: Mount Athos: Botanical 'Garden of the Virgin' - Veronica dell Dora -- 8. Astronomers at Altitude: Mountain Geography and the Cultivation of Scientific Legitimacy - K. Maria D. Lane -- Part 2: Local Knowledge and Science in High Places -- 9. Stewards of the Mountains: The Poetics and Politics of Local Knowledge in the Valaisan Alps - Gilles Rudaz -- 10. Sea Ice Mapping: Ontology, Mechanics and Human Rights at the Ice Floe Edge - Michael T. Bravo -- 11. Canada Day in Resolute: Performance, Ritual, and the Nation in an Inuit Community - Richard C. Powell -- 12. Paektudaegan: Science and Colonialism, Memory and Mapping in Korean High Place - Jong-Heon Jin -- 13. Afterword: 'The Unhandselled Globe' - J. Nicholas Entrikin -- Endnotes -- Index.
Abstract:
High places - be they mountain peaks or the vast expanses of the polar latitudes - have always captured the human imagination. Inaccessible, extreme, they are commonly invested with awe and reverence, as places of physical challenge, intense experience. Increasingly, they are also treated as unique locations for science. High Places explores the fascinating geographies of these special environments, revealing how senses are challenged, objectivities exposed, cultural assumptions laid bare. Whether walking the summit of Pico de Orizaba, the fourth highest volcano in the northern hemisphere; recounting the tale of the American explorer Charles Wilkes, charged with 'immoral mapping' in Antarctica; or exploring the 200,000 year old Greenland ice core; the international contributors reveal the richness and significance of these unique locations. Embracing Europe, Asia, North and Central America, Antarctica and the Arctic, High Places will interest geographers, historians of science, and those interested in polar/mountain studies, landscape, culture and environment.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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