Journal of Cultural Geography articles from March 2002

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from March 2002

Introduction.
March 22, 2002... This special issue devoted to cultural ecology represents something of a departure for the Journal of Cultural Geography. Certainly during the journal's more than two decades of publishing research within cultural geography's mainstream...

Plant cultivation on the Northwest Coast: a reconsideration.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. Conventional wisdom suggests that the peoples of the Northwest Coast did not cultivate plants prior to European contact. Considerable evidence suggests the contrary, however, particularly the well-documented practice of estuarine root...

Common field agriculture as a cultural landscape of Latin America: development and history in the geographical customs of resource use.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. Common field agriculture is a form of community-based landscape use. This ethnogeographic custom coordinates the production of crops and livestock grazing in managed fallow among the designated sectors of a community. Areas of...

Which way to till this field? The cultural selection of surface form in the rise and fall of cultivation ridges in Northwestern Europe.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. This paper compares the tillage patterns of ridged and level fields, and suggests past incentives for their alternative selection within the agricultural history of northwestern Europe. Fieldwork in Ireland in 1994 and 1995 focused on...

The "degraded" tapia woodlands of highland Madagascar: rural economy, fire ecology, and forest conservation.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. Madagascar is well known for deforestation. However, highland "tapia" (Uapaca bojeri) woodlands may present a counterexample of indigenous management leading to woodland conservation. Contrary to common wisdom that these woodlands are...

Ferns and fire: village subsistence, landscape change, and nature conservation in China's Southeast uplands.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. Anthropogenic fire has shaped mountain landscapes in southern China since prehistoric times. Early Han settlers adopted periodic burning techniques from non-Han swidden agriculturalists, adapting them to suit their own cultural needs....

Intensive agricultural landscapes of Oceania.
March 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. Pacific Islanders have adapted over time to a wide range of social and environmental conditions. Subsistence regimes include broad-based fishing and gathering along with horticulture, particularly the cultivation of staple tubers....

A Wetland Biography: Seasons on Louisiana's Chenier Plain.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... By Gay M. Gomez. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. xiii+270 pp. $18.95 paper. Reading Gay Gomez's A Wetland Biography: Seasons on Louisiana's Chenier Plain reminded this...

The Sacred Landscape of the Inca: the Cusco Ceque System.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... By Brian S. Bauer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. List of Illustrations and tables, preface, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index, xiv+249 pp. $50.00 hardcover. When the Spanish arrived in the Inca city of Cusco in 1532 one of...

Our National Parks and the Search for Sustainability.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... By Bob R. O'Brien. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. Preface, notes, selected bibliography, and index, xvi+246 pp. $19.95 paper In the early part of the twentieth century, visitation to national parks was promoted as a means of...

Geographies of Resistance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2002... Edited by Steve Pile and Michael Keith. New York: Routledge, 1997. Figures, tables, contributors, preface, and index, xiv+315 pp. $24.99 paper. Geographies of Resistance opens with a soliloquy on the book's cover illustration The End of...