Cultural Geography
Cultural Geography
- ISBN 13:
9780195419221
- ISBN 10:
0195419227
- Edition: 2nd
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 09/22/2005
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Newer Edition
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Summary
Cultural Geography, Second Edition, explores how cultural identitiesexpress themselves in the landscape. William Norton examines everything fromMormon temples to shopping malls, from war monuments to roadside memorials, fromsegregated beaches to gay pride parades. Landscapes emerge as sites ofcontestation and consumption, of oppression and exclusion, of sacred importanceand ethnic pride, Cultural Geography reveals how people relate to place on alocal, regional, and global scale.While covering the longstanding interests in ecology, landscape change, andcultural regions, which developed under the influence of Carl Sauer, the secondedition of Cultural Geography also focuses on contemporary movements in thefield. The 'new' cultural geography--informed by Marxist, feminist, humanist,and postmodernist concerns--challenges traditional ideas about humans andnature.Integrating physical and social science, Cultural Geography: Environments,Landscapes, Identities, and Inequalities, Second Edition, provides thoughtfuland balanced coverage of this discipline in all its aspects, past andpresent.