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Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies
Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies, 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 homogeniz, Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies has a rating of 4 stars
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  • Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies
  • Written by author Paul C. Adams
  • Published by University of Minnesota Press, February 2001
  • 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 homogeniz
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Acknowledgments
Place in Context: Rethinking Humanist Geographies
Pt. I Landscapes of Dominance and Affection
Introduction: Landscapes of Dominance and Affection 3
Fantasies in Dark Places: The Cultural Geography of the American Movie Palace 8
When Less is More: Absence and Landscape in a California Ghost Town 24
Sense of Place as a Positional Good: Locating Bedford in Space and Time 41
Reading the Wetlands 55
Making a Pet of Nature 84
Landscape as a Contested Topos of Place, Community, and Self 93
Pt. II Segmented Worlds and Selves
Introduction: Segmented Worlds and Selves 121
The World and its Identity Crisis 129
The Critical Description of Confused Geographies 150
Making Up the Tramp: Toward a Critical Geosophy 167
Peripatetic Imagery and Peripatetic Sense of Place 186
The Fragmented Individual and the Academic Realm 207
Pt. III Moralities and Imagination
Introduction: Moralities and Imagination 223
Place, Power, and the Good 232
Attending to the Void: Geography and Madness 246
The Gift of Presence: The Act of Leaving Artifacts at Shrines, Memorials, and Other Tragedies 257
Reimagining National Identity: "Chapters of Life" at the German Historical Museum in Berlin 273
Moral Maps and Moral Places in the Work of Francis Parkman 300
Pt. IV Cosmos Versus Hearth
Introduction: Cosmos versus Hearth 319
Geography's Cosmos: The Dream and the Whole Round Earth 326
Bone-Crones have no Hearth: Some Women in the Medieval Wilderness 340
But it's (not) Supposed to Feel Like Home: Constructing the Cosmopolitan Hearth 355
Conversing Diversity: Provincial Cosmopolitanism and America's Multicultural Heritage 375
Body, Self, and Landscape: A Geophilosophical Inquiry into the Place-World 403
Geographer as Humanist 426
Contributors 441
Index 447


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