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Symbolic landscapes
Abstract
Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh, quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination, which means that human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field. Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds. This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics in the field.
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pp.3-31
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_1symbolic landscapes in the California desert
pp.33-63
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_2spiritual journeys on the Appalachian trail
pp.65-90
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_3spatial genealogy of a Hawaiian symbolic landscape
pp.91-108
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_4circulating visions of pre-christian athos
pp.109-131
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_5carnival conventions and yard space in Gibsonton, florida
pp.133-160
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_6roadside memorial—perth, Western India
pp.161-171
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_7an allegory of the street in early twenty-first-century suburban America
pp.173-184
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_8pp.185-202
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_9pp.205-226
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_10cartographic possession in map cartouches and atlas frontispieces of early modern Australia
pp.227-250
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_11scenery in early-modern netherlandish graphic art
pp.251-264
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_12photography and the féminine
pp.265-281
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_13pp.283-303
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_14memory, narrative, writing
pp.323-337
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_16Defoe's existential geography
pp.363-388
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_18Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2009
Pages: 399
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-4020-8702-8
ISBN (digital): 978-1-4020-8703-5
Full citation:
Backhaus Gary, Murungi John (2009) Symbolic landscapes. Dordrecht, Springer.