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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience

4 reviews
Yi-Fu Tuan, Steven Hoelscher

University of Minnesota Press, 2001

The phenomenology of space and place
In "Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience," Tuan provides a descriptive account of the concepts "space" and "place," drawing on the work of phenomenologists, anthropologists, psychologists, geographers, and others. He grounds his analysis in a structuralist framework, using anthropological research to illustrate how our experiences of space and place can "transcend cultural ...

Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells (Studies ...
Steven D. Hoelscher

University of Wisconsin Press, 2008

Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness—and a gathering place for the region’s Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of the Wisconsin River for both sustenance and spiritual renewal. By the late 1800s their numbers had dwindled through displacement or forcible removal, and it was this smaller band that caught the attention of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett. ...

Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland
Steven D. Hoelscher

University of Wisconsin Press, 1998

"A remarkable achievement. By focusing on New Glarus, Steven Hoelscher gives us not only one Wisconsin town in all its self-inventing, self-dramatizing power but also suggests how aspiring towns and cities all over the world may now have to theatricalize their past to reach the twin goals of group pride and prosperity."-Yi-Fu Tuan, J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Hoelscher's work brings together ...

Self-reported barriers to quality physical education by physical education specialists in Texas.(survey): An ...
Christine McCullum-Gomez, Deanna M. Hoelscher, ...

Thomson Gale, 2005

This digital document is an article from Journal of School Health, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 4676 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the author: School-based programs offer an efficient means of ...

Environmental Aesthetics: Ideas, Politics and Planning. (book reviews): An article from: The Geographical ...
Steven Hoelscher

American Geographical Society, 1997

This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on July 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1172 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Environmental Aesthetics: ...

Cultural Map of Wisconsin: A Cartographic Portrait of the State
David Woodward, Robert C. Ostergren, ...

University of Wisconsin Press, 1996

This extraordinary map, the first of its kind created for any state, is a wonderful way to discover the history, culture, land, and people of Wisconsin. Nearly 1500 points of interest are located on the map, including the sites of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House in the Big Woods near Pepin, the World’s Largest Fish Fry at Port Washington, John Muir’s boyhood farm near Montello, the Honor the Earth Pow Wow at Lac Court ...

Wisconsin Then and Now: The Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Rephotography Project
Nicolette Bromberg, Thomas R. Vale, ...

University of Wisconsin Press, 2001

This lavish visual celebration of Wisconsin pairs one hundred historic photographs with one hundred recent photos by some of the state's finest present-day documentary photographers and photojournalists. This comprehensive and creative rephotography project documents in extraordinary and inventive ways rural and urban landscapes, communities, and social activities over the course of 150 years. Whether portraying past and present immigrants, ...

The photographic construction of tourist space in Victorian America.: An article from: The Geographical Review
Steven Hoelscher

American Geographical Society, 1998

This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on October 1, 1998. The length of the article is 8550 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. From the author: Keywords: H. H. Bennett, landscape, ...

Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies

2 reviews

University of Minnesota Press, 2001

An insider's view
I would like to append my comment's to panopticonman's below (which I much appreciate). To contextualize myself, I am a graduate student in geography at UCLA. This quarter I am enrolled in a seminar which is reading this book, alongside Claudio Minca's volume "Postmodern Geography: Theory and Praxis." The seminar is run by Denis Cosgrove, a contributor to both volumes, and is attended by Karen ...

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Government Pirates: The Assault on Private Property Rights--and How ...
Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, ...
The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against ...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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