Journal of Cultural Geography articles from March 22 1999

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from March 22 1999

America's Small Town/Big City Dialectic.(neighborhood sociology)
March 22, 1999... Abstract. The big city and small town have been stereotyped in the American experience as being at opposite ends of an imagined social gradient--the former more a place of cold impersonality in social relations and the latter more a place of...

Peaks of Identity in Colorado's San Juan Mountains.(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 1999... Abstract. The glaciated ranges of southwestern Colorado constituting the San Juan Mountains are culturally significant to residents and visitors. As certain mountains are imbued with meaning, they become "peaks of identity,' tangible and...

Pilgrimage Holy Sites: A Classification of Jewish Holy Sites in Israel.
March 22, 1999... Abstract. This paper deals with Jewish pilgrimage sites in Israel. The research analyzes the characteristics of Jewish holy sites in present-day Israel, in terms of the fundamental concepts introduced into the study of pilgrimage by Turner...

Spatial Succession of Sacred Space in Chicago.
March 22, 1999... Abstract. Religious landscapes tell much more about a place than just religious adherence. The oftentimes strong correlation between ethnicity and religion means that a religious landscape can also be an ethnic landscape. In urban centers like...

The Cultural Geography of the Summer Dance Pavilions of Ostrobothnia, Finland.
March 22, 1999... Abstract. This study examines the cultural geography of dance pavilions in Ostrobothnia, Finland, after World War II, using data obtained from newspaper advertisements and field excursions. A dance pavilion is a lightly constructed dance floor...

Rethinking the Region.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Rethinking the Region. By John Allen, Doreen Massey, and Allan Cochrane. New York: Routledge, 1998. Maps, montages, preface, bibliography, and index, x+159 pp. $25.99 paper. The discipline of geography has made a scientific contribution...

Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Border Visions: Mexican Cultures of the Southwest United States. By Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. Illustrations, acknowledgments, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index, xii+273 pp. $45 cloth, $19.95...

Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West. By Gary Holthaus. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997. Preface and acknowledgments. xix+167 pp. $16.95 paper. Perhaps the two most perplexing questions for cultural geographers interested in...

Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West. By Paul F. Starrs. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Maps, charts, tables, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, index, glossary, bibliographic essay; and index, xx+257...

The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala. By Mark Brazaitis. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998. Acknowledgments. 186 pp. $16.95 paper. The River of Lost Voices, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1998, was written by...

The Language of Landscape.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The Language of Landscape. By Anne Whiston Spirn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Introduction, prologue, notes, sources, acknowledgments, and index. 326 pp. $35 cloth. Part personal memoir and part how-to book on design, Anne...

Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory. Edited by Chris Rojek and John Urry. New York: Routledge, 1997. List of illustrations, notes on contributors, acknowledgments, bibliography, name index, and subject index. 214 pp. $22.99...

Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture. By Barbara Browning. New York: Routledge, 1998. Acknowledgments, preface, notes, and index, xiv+234 pp. $18.99 paper. African culture, particularly its music and...

New Frontiers of Space, Bodies, and Gender.(Review)
March 22, 1999... New Frontiers of Space, Bodies, and Gender. By Rosa Ainley. New York: Routledge, 1998. List of illustrations, notes on contributors, acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography; and index, xvii+243 pp. $25.99 paper New Frontiers is a...

Explorations in Critical Human Geography.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Explorations in Critical Human Geography. By Derek Gregory. Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg, 1998. 122 pp. 25DM. Explorations in Critical Human Geography contains a paper given by Derek Gregory in 1997 for the Hettner Lecture at the...

Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems. Edited by John Pickles. New York: Guilford Press, 1995. Preface and index. xvi+248 pp. $19.95 paper. GIS (Geographic Information Systems) is beginning to be used in...