Journal of Cultural Geography articles from March 2003

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from March 2003

Glances from the shore: Thoreau and the material landscape of Cape Cod.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. Material culture--accessible, visible, durable--afforded several generations of American cultural geographers entree into study of the human landscape. This approach leaned toward the visual, the rural, and the antiquarian. More...

Ethiopian ethos and the making of ethnic places in the Washington metropolitan area.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. Immigrants from Ethiopia form the largest community of peoples from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Washington metropolitan area. Like other relatively recent immigrant groups, Ethiopians are dispersed in the region. As residential...

The ambiguities of authenticity in Little Sweden, U.S.A.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. Throughout the United States many small towns have been reinventing themselves as ethnic-themed tourist towns. Scholars often do not give the culture in these towns a second thought, automatically assuming that the culture on display...

Galveston: Ellis Island of Texas.
March 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. The isolated windswept port of Galveston, located on the Texas Gulf Coast, served as the entry point for tens of thousands of immigrants from many parts of the world between 1850 and 1920. This paper maps, analyzes, and compares the...

Nature and Culture in the Andes.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Daniel Gade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Figures, tables, preface, notes, references, and index, xiv+287 pp. $18.95 paper. During the past 30-plus years, Daniel Gade has published regularly on topics related to the...

Approaches to Landscape.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Richard Muir. Lanham: Barnes and Noble, 1999. Illustrations, introduction, and index, xix+ 310 pp. $59.00 cloth. As a scholar grappling with both the conceptual complexity and empirical immediacy of landscape, you can imagine my...

The Courthouse Square in Texas.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Robert E. Veselka and edited by Kenneth E. Foote. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Foreword, appendices, bibliography, and index, xiv+244 pp. $50.00 cloth, $25.95 paper. This is an unusual book, written by a single author but...

Geographical Identities of Ethnic America: Race, Space, and Place.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Edited by Kate A. Berry and Martha L. Henderson. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002. List of illustrations, foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, and index, xv+311 pp. $29.95 paper. Combining theoretical and practical methodologies,...

Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Virginia D. Nazarea. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 1999. Preface, list of abbreviations, list of contributors, and index, xii+299 pp. $40.00 cloth. Virginia D. Nazarea has organized an impressive group of scholars and activists...

Landscape, Culture, and Power in Chinese Society.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Edited by Wen-hsin Yeh. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. Acknowledgments, introduction, and contributors, xv+152 pp. $15.00 paper. The papers in the book were originally presented at the...

Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Edited by Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Acknowledgment, contributors, and index, xxxiii+461 pp. $25.95 paper. Textures of Place grew out of a series of AAG sessions in...

The Galaxy on Earth: a Traveler's Guide to the Planet's Visionary Geography.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Richard Leviton. Charlottesville. VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 2002. Acknowledgments, foreword, preface, endnotes, and index, xvi+577 pp. $18.95 paper. In keeping with the theme of the New Age Movement, and Richard...

Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Jennifer Price. New York: Basic Books, 1999. Illustrations, introduction, notes, acknowledgments, and index, xxii+325 pp. $24.00 cloth. From stores in mega-malls, to truck advertisements on television, and to suburban lawn ornaments,...

Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Edited by Mike Crang, Phil Crang and Jon May. New York: Routledge, 1999. List of illustrations, list of contributors, acknowledgments, references, and index, x+322 pp. $25.99 paper. The book under review, Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space...

Geographies of Disability.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Brendan Gleeson. New York: Routledge, 1999. List of figures and tables, acknowledgments, notes, references, and index, xii+253 pp. $27.99 paper. Brendan Gleeson's general goal is to explore the relationships between space and physical...

Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Serge Dedina. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000. List of illustrations, maps, tables, acknowledgments, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index, xix+186 pp. $37.50 cloth. Drawing on a wide range of information drawn mainly...

Poststructuralist Geographies: the Diabolical Art of Spatial Science.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Marcus Doel. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Acknowledgments, bibliography, name index, and subject index, ix+229 pp. $28.95 paper. Symptomatic of a self-affirmed love for geography, Marcus Doel's Poststructuralist...