Research Catalog

Title

Nature and identity in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Anne Buttimer and Luke Wallin.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buttimer, Anne.
• Wallin, Luke.

Description

xvii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The GeoJournal library ; v. 48

Uniform Title

GeoJournal library ; v. 48.

Subjects

• Geography > Cross-cultural studies
• Geography in literature
• Geographical perception
• Human geography
• Landscapes
• Nature
• Waarneming
• Culturele antropologie
• Sociale geografie
• Vergleichende Volkskunde
• Vergleichende Kulturpsychologie
• Natur
• Mensch
• Kulturanthropologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Pt. I. Nature, Home and Horizon -- Reflections on the History of Western Attitudes to Nature / Clarence Glacken -- Ideas of Nature in East Asian Lands / Hajime Nakamura -- Japan's Traditional View of Nature and Interpretation of Landscape / M. Senda -- Indian Attitudes Toward Nature / R. C. Pandeya -- Nature and Cosmic Integrity: A Search in Hindu Geographical Thought / Rana P. B. Singh -- World Views of Arab Geographers / Hassan Hanafi -- Perspectives on the Contributions of Arabs and Muslims to Geography / El-Sayed El-Bushra and Muhammad M. Muhammadain -- Pt. II. Official Versus Folk Visions -- Cosmos and Hearth in China / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Interplay of State and Local Concern in the Management Of Natural Resources: Hydraulics and Forestry in Spain, 1855-1936 / Josefina Gomez Mendoza and Nicolas Ortega Cantero -- The Real Country and the Legal Country: Spanish Ideals and Mayan Realities in Colonial Guatemala / W. George Lovell -- Popular and Official Appraisals of Natural Resources: Some Evidence from Australia / R. L. Heathcote -- God, Thine Earth is Burning: Nature Attitudes and the Latvian Drive for Independence / Edmunds Valdemars Bunkse -- Arctic Worlds and the Geography of Imagination / Nancy Doubleday -- Pt. III. Narrative Imagination in the Landscape -- A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative / William Cronon -- Invented Tradition and Academic Convention in Geographical Thought About New England / Martyn J. Bowden -- Writing "God's Fine Wilderness": John Muir in the Mountains of California / Luke Wallin -- Contested Visions: Nature, Culture and the Morality of Landscape in the Scottish Highlands / Charles W. J. Withers -- The Narrative Creation of Place: Yeats and West-of-Ireland Landscapes / Patrick Sheeran -- Farmers, Foresters, Gypsies, Guests: Narratives of Swedish Cultural Identity / Anne Buttimer -- Waking the Dead: Exploring Mexican and Arctic Spaces / John Moss.

ISBN

• 0792356519
• 9780792356516

LCCN

99018814

OCLC

• ocm50666197
• 50666197
• SCSB-1242646

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library