Geography And The Human Spirit

Author : Anne Buttimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993-03
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020871870

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Faust symbolizes the next phase, the typically Western drive to build structures, institutions, and legal frameworks around such new ideas. But tensions inevitably arise between Faust and Phoenix - between structure and the original emancipatory spirit. Then Narcissus appears, critically reflecting on the situation and eventually choosing one of two alternatives: falling in love with his own image or undergoing painful liberation from past certainties to welcome a new Phoenix. Buttimer uses these symbols to reflect on four ways in which the world has been perceived both in the Western cultural tradition and in other traditions throughout history: the world as a mosaic of forms, as a mechanical system, as an organic whole, and as an arena of spontaneous events.

Author : Anne Buttimer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421448558

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What does it mean to dwell? Every civilization has a story to tell, according to Anne Buttimer, and exploring those stories brings fresh light to modern ideas about the relationship between humanity and its environment. In Geography and the Human Spirit, Buttimer ranges widely from Plato to Barry Lopez, from the Upanishads to Goethe, taking an interdisciplinary look at the ways in which human beings have turned to natural science, theology, and myth to form visions of the earth as a human habitat.

Author : Sidney William Wooldridge,William Gordon East
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Geografia
ISBN : UOM:39015055796943

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The Spirit and Purpose of Geography by Sidney William Wooldridge,William Gordon East Pdf

This ed. originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1958.

Author : Kathleen Norris
Publisher : HMH
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547527567

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Dakota by Kathleen Norris Pdf

“A deeply spiritual, deeply moving book” about life on the Great Plains, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Cloister Walk (The New York Times Book Review). “With humor and lyrical grace,” Kathleen Norris meditates on a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth (San Francisco Chronicle). A combination of reporting and reflection, Dakota reminds us that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography.

Author : Merritt
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781398406445

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The Nations of Earth by Merritt Pdf

These poetic pieces are based on the human spirit, which is the realisation that underneath the obvious, there is something deeper going on, a connection that is felt yet is easily overlooked. The human spirit can be explored and discussed in a general way, but most importantly, it is a profound aspect of ourselves that should be celebrated, because despite our differences, we know that in spirit, we are all one. Each nation, each culture, has something unique to give to the world, and world civilization is the richer for it. Humanity should really be defined by the word ‘celebration’ as differentiation is enriching us, and offers a greater understanding of who we are as a species on this planet.

Author : Kathleen Norris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Benedictine monasteries
ISBN : 0544355814

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Author : S. W. WOOLDRIDGE,W G East
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1032861762

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The Spirit and Purpose of Geography by S. W. WOOLDRIDGE,W G East Pdf

First published in 1951, The Spirit and Purpose of Geography offers an introduction to the scope and spirit of geography. This undertakes a no less ambitious task than that of discovering the spatial relationships of the manifold features, physical and human, which diversify the Earth's surface. The authors one of whom first approached the subject from physical science, and the other from social science, co-operate to define and to discuss the historical development of their subject, its fundamental physical basis, its cartographic methods, its human aspect and its many applications and problems. Above all they submit that geography, the study of country or landscape, as a link study between the natural sciences and the humanities, constitutes not only a worthy academic discipline but also a part of a liberal education. This introductory volume is a must read for any student of geography.

Author : Frederick W. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000610932

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Beyond Geography by Frederick W. Turner Pdf

Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780446511070

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The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner Pdf

Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

Author : Frederick W. Turner
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0813519098

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Beyond Geography by Frederick W. Turner Pdf

First published in 1980, Beyond Geography continues to influence and impress its readers. This new edition, prepared for the Columbus quincentennial, includes a new introduction by T. H. Watkins and a new preface by the author. As the public debates Columbus's legacy, it is important for us to learn of the spiritual background of European domination of the Americas, for the Europeans who conquered the Americas substituted history for myth as a way of understanding life.

Author : James S. Griffith
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816514076

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Beliefs and Holy Places by James S. Griffith Pdf

The region once known as Pimer’a AltaÑnow southern Arizona and northern SonoraÑhas for more than three centuries been a melting pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. One need look no further than the roadside crosses along desert highways or the diversity of local celebrations to sense the richness of this cultural commingling. Folklorist Jim Griffith has lived in the Pimer’a Alta for more than thirty years, visiting its holy places and attending its fiestas, and has uncovered a background of belief, tradition, and history lying beneath the surface of these cultural expressions. In Beliefs and Holy Places, he reveals some of the supernaturally sanctioned relationships that tie people to places within that region, describing the cultural and religious meanings of locations and showing how bonds between people and places have in turn created relationships between places, a spiritual geography undetectable on physical maps. Throughout the book, Griffith shows how culture moves from legend to art to belief to practice, all the while serving as a dynamic link between past and future. Now as the desert gives way to newcomers, Griffith's book offers visitors and residents alike a rare opportunity to share in these rich traditions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 7278 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780081022962

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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Anonim Pdf

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of literature, and provocative topical discussions that will stimulate creative thinking. Presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage on the topic of human geography Contains extensive scope and depth of coverage Emphasizes how geographers interact with, understand and contribute to problem-solving in the contemporary world Places an emphasis on how geography is relevant in a social and interdisciplinary context

Author : Anne Buttimer,Tom Mels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351953924

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By Northern Lights by Anne Buttimer,Tom Mels Pdf

Swedish society has recurrently shown a keen geographical sense, meticulously documenting all matters relating to environments, resources and human activities through space and time from the sixteenth century on. Throughout the twentieth century in particular, Sweden won international acclaim for its groundbreaking geographic work on spatial planning, climate change, time-space modelling and landscape history by the likes of Ahlmann, De Geer, Enequist, Hägerstrand, Kant, Olsson and William-Olsson. More recently, with the rising tide of post modernity and multiple processes of globalization, there has been a good deal of debate about novel lines of enquiry into nature and culture, issues of gender, identity and diversity, justice and environmental concern; all of these have sparked a renewed interest in the history and philosophy of the field. Following on from Anne Buttimer's renowned Geography and the Human Spirit, this book not only offers the first book length contextual account of the development of geographic thought in Sweden, but also provides a narrative thread which traces continuity and change in both cognitive styles and professional practices of geography in general.

Author : Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299296834

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Romantic Geography by Yi-Fu Tuan Pdf

Geography is useful, indeed necessary, to survival. Everyone must know where to find food, water, and a place of rest, and, in the modern world, all must make an effort to make the Earth -- our home -- habitable. But much present-day geography lacks drama, with its maps and statistics, descriptions and analysis, but no acts of chivalry, no sense of quest. Not long ago, however, geography was romantic. Heroic explorers ventured to forbidding environments -- oceans, mountains, forests, caves, deserts, polar ice caps -- to test their power of endurance for reasons they couldn't fully articulate. Why climb Everest? "Because it is there." In this book, the author considers the human tendency -- stronger in some cultures than in others -- to veer away from the middle ground of common sense to embrace the polarized values of light and darkness, high and low, chaos and form, mind and body. In so doing, venturesome humans can find salvation in geographies that cater not so much to survival needs (or even to good, comfortable living) as to the passionate and romantic aspirations of their nature

Author : Roger D. Stone,Claudia D'Andrea
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520936078

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Tropical Forests and the Human Spirit by Roger D. Stone,Claudia D'Andrea Pdf

Tropical forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. This book, based on extensive international field research, highlights one solution for preserving this precious resource: empowering local people who depend on the forest for survival. Synthesizing a vast amount of information that has never been brought together in one place, Roger D. Stone and Claudia D'Andrea provide a clearly written and energizing tour of global efforts to empower community-based forest stewards. Along the way, they show the fundamental importance of tropical forest ecosystems and deepen our sense of urgency to save them for the benefit of billions of rural people in tropical and subtropical regions as well as for countless species of plants and animals. In their travels to research this book, the authors saw many remarkable examples of how proficient even the poorest local people can be in stabilizing and recovering formerly destitute forests. With engagingly written case studies from Thailand's Golden Triangle to Mindanao in the Philippines, from Indonesia, India, and Africa to Brazil, Mexico, and Central America, they introduce us to the communities and the individuals, the governments, the loggers, the agencies, and the local groups who vie for forest resources. Contrasting community-based efforts and traditional forest management with government and donor efforts, they discuss the many reasons why international institutions and national governments have been unable and unwilling to stem the accelerating loss of tropical forestland. This book argues we are paying a terrible price--politically, economically, and environmentally--for allowing tropical forests to be stripped. Community-based forestry is no panacea, but this book clearly shows its effectiveness as a management technique.