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Textures of Place : Exploring Humanist Geographies.
Title:
Textures of Place : Exploring Humanist Geographies.
Author:
Adams, Paul C.
ISBN:
9780816692569
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (496 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PLACE IN CONTEXT: Rethinking Humanist Geographies -- Part I. LANDSCAPES OF DOMINANCE AND AFFECTION -- INTRODUCTION: Landscapes of Dominance and Affection -- FANTASIES IN DARK PLACES: The Cultural Geography of the American Movie Palace -- WHEN LESS IS MORE: Absence and Landscape 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 -- Part II. SEGMENTED WORLDS AND SELVES -- INTRODUCTION: Segmented Worlds and Selves -- THE WORLD AND ITS IDENTITY CRISIS -- THE CRITICAL DESCRIPTION OF CONFUSED GEOGRAPHIES -- MAKING UP THE TRAMP: Toward a Critical Geosophy -- PERIPATETIC IMAGERY AND PERIPATETIC SENSE OF PLACE -- THE FRAGMENTED INDIVIDUAL AND THE ACADEMIC REALM -- Part III. MORALITIES AND IMAGINATION -- INTRODUCTION: Moralities and Imagination -- PLACE, POWER, AND THE GOOD -- ATTENDING TO THE VOID: Geography and Madness -- THE 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 -- Part IV. COSMOS VERSUS HEARTH -- 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 -- Contributors -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

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Abstract:
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.
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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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