Re-reading Cultural Geography
Re-reading Cultural Geography
The geography of culture has held a sustained attraction for some of the most distinguished and promising geographers of the twentieth century. These notable voices have now been brought together to explore the cultural landscape in this fresh, encompassing survey of one of geography's most vital research areas.
In Re-reading Cultural Geography, a worthy successor to the original and now classic Readings in Cultural Geography (1962), the editors have gathered articles, essays, and new commentaries, as well as extensive annotated reading lists and a comprehensive bibliography, into a book that will be ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses of all levels.
Assessing an intellectual world far different from the one defined in the earlier volume, Re-reading Cultural Geography uncovers the common themes of a vibrant, often clamorous discipline. Broadly defined, these include "how the world looks"—the patternings of cultural traits and material artifacts; "how the world works"—the dynamics of human organizations in interaction with the environment; and "what the world means"—the systems of shared values and beliefs that shape communities.
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- I. The World of Cultural Geography
- 1. Foreword: Culture and Geography: Thirty Years of Advance (Philip L. Wagner)
- 2. Re-reading Cultural Geography (Peter J. Hugill & Kenneth E. Foote)
- II. How the World Looks
- 3. Introduction (Nathan M. Smith & Kenneth E. Foote)
- 4. The Mexican American Cu(ltural Capital (Daniel D. Arreola)
- 5. The Symbolism of the Skyscraper: Case Studies of New York's First Tall Buildings (Mona Domosh)
- 6. The Westward-moving House: Three American Houses and the People Who Lived in Them (J. B. Jackson)
- 7. Common Houses, Cultural Spoor (Peirce Lewis)
- 8. American Wests: Preface to a Geographical Interpretation (Donald W. Meinig)
- 9. Speculations on the New American Landscapes (Robert B. Riley)
- 1O. Looking at a World That Speaks (Miles Richardson)
- III. How the World Works
- 11. Introduction (Kent Mathewson)
- 12. Diffusionism: A Uniformitarian Critique (James M. Blaut)
- 13. Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon (Alfred W. Crosby)
- 14. A Staple Interpretation of Slavery and Free Labor (Carville Earle)
- 15. Cultural Preadaptation and the American Forest Frontier: The Role of New Sweden (Terry G. Jordan)
- 16. Ecological Change, Inflation, and Migration in the Far Western Caribbean (Bernard Nietschmann)
- 17. Wetland Production and Smallholder Persistence: Agricultural Change in a Highland Peruvian Region (Karl S. Zimmerer)
- 18. Cultural Geography at Work (James J. Parsons)
- IV. What the World Means
- 19. Introduction (Kenneth E. Foote)
- 20. Filming the Fens: A Visual Interpretation of Regional Character (Jacquelin Burgess)
- 21. Environmental Theology: Trends in Christian Thought (Robin W. Doughty)
- 22. Aesthetic Ideology and Urban Design (Barbara Rubin Hudson)
- 23. Imagining the Future at Niagara Falls (Patrick McGreevy)
- 24. Place and the Novelist (Douglas C. D. Pocock)
- 25. Way-Keeping, Way-Finding, Way-Losing: Disorientation in a Complex Environment (Joseph Sonnenfeld)
- 26. Worlds of Meaning: Cultural Geography and the Imagination (Denis E. Cosgrove)
- V. Future Worlds of Cultural Geography
- 27. Introduction (Kenneth E. Foote)
- 28. After the Civil War: Reconstructing Cultural Geography as Heterotopia (James S. Duncan)
- 29. Toward a Cultural Curriculum for the Future: A First Approximation (Karl W. Butzer)
- 30. Cultural Geography as Discovery (Christopher L. Salter)
- 31. Afterword: New Interests, Unsolved Problems, and Persisting Tasks (Marvin W. Mikesell)
- References
- Editors and Contributors
- Index
