Cultural Geography: Themes, Concepts, Analyses

Abstract

1. Introducing Cultural Geography 1.1 Doing Cultural Geography 1.2 What This Book is About 1.3 Providing a Context 1.4 Introducing Culture 1.5 Introducing Themes and Analyses 1.6 Concluding Comments 1.7 Further Reading 2. Humans and Nature 2.1 Population and Technology 2.2 Separating Humans and Nature 2.3 Environmental Determism 2.4 Human Use of Nature 2.5 Towards Holistic Emphases 2.6 Contemporary Ideologies of Nature 2.7 Humans as Members of Cultural Groups 2.8 Concluding Comments 2.9 Further Reading 3. Landscape Evolution 3.1 The Landscape School 3.2 Cultural Diffusion 3.3 Cultural Contact and Transfer 3.4 Shaping Landscapes 3.5 Concluding Comments 3.6 Further Reading 4. Regions and Landscapes 4.1 What is a Cultural Region? 4.2 The Evolution of Cultural Regions: Concepts 4.3 Cultural Regions 4.4 Shaping the Modern World 4.5 Global Regions 4.6 Concluding Comments 4.7 Further Reading 5. Ecology and Landscape 5.1 Ecology: A Unifying Science? 5.2 Cultural Ecological Analysis 5.3 Revisiting Humans and Nature 5.4 Ecofeminism 5.5 Political Ecological Analysis 5.6 Concluding comments 5.7 Further Reading 6. Behaviour and Landscape 6.1 Understanding Human Behaviour 6.2 Behavioural Cultural Geography 6.3 Spatial Understanding and Spatial Perception 6.4 Concluding Comments 6.5 Further Reading 7. Unequal Groups, Unequal Landscapes 7.1 Three Challenges 7.2 Conceptual Underpinnings 7.3 A Divided World: The Idea of Race 7.4 A Divided World: Ethnicity 7.5 Global Power: Economics, Politics, and Culture 7.6 Concluding Comments 7.7 Further Reading 8. Landscape, Identity, Symbol 8.1 Understanding Place and People 8.2 Others and Other Worlds 8.3 Symbolic Landscapes 8.4 Ordinary Landscapes 8.5 Concluding Comments 8.6 Further Reading 9. The Status of Cultural Geography 9.1 Informing Cultural Geographic Analyses 9.2 A Practical Discipline 9.3 Some Final Questions 9.4 Further Reading List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes

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