Journal of Cultural Geography articles from March 2006

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from March 2006

Dusun ethnobotany: forest knowledge and nomenclature in northern Borneo.
March 22, 2006... ABSTRACT. Ethnobotanical knowledge constitutes a primary nexus of nature and culture within traditional, subsistence societies. This paper examines the ethnobotanical knowledge domain and naming system maintained by the Dusun of northern Borneo...

Cultural diversity in a "bi-cultural" city: factors in the location of ancestry groups in San Antonio.
March 22, 2006... ABSTRACT. This study examines the factors that influence the residential segregation and spatial patterns of twenty-seven ancestry groups in San Antonio (Bexar County), Texas, in 2000. It is hypothesized that the residential segregation of an...

Mapping from a different direction: mandala as sacred spatial visualization.
March 22, 2006... ABSTRACT. Spatial visualization serves as a key cartographic device for relaying representative information about that part of space portrayed, creating an ordered presentation of patterns that instruct the observer. This research explores the...

Cultural landscape of Pavagadh: the abode of mother goddess Kalika.
March 22, 2006... ABSTRACT. A study of topographic symbolism of pilgrim landscapes offers an insight into aspects of the mother goddess' divinity. Pavagadh Hill in Gujarat, India is the abode of Kalika Mata and also the location of impregnable forts of Rajputs...

Choctaw beer: tonic or devil's brew?
March 22, 2006... Originally a drink of the Choctaw Indians, Choctaw beer was a concoction composed of hops, barley, tobacco, fishberries, and a small amount of alcohol. When thousands of com miners found work in the Choctaw Nation in the 1880s, they quickly...

Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916. By Anne E. Mosher. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. List of illustrations and tables, preface, epilogue, appendix, notes, bibliography and index, xvii+249 pp. $45.00...

Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. By Andrew Wiese. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004. Acknowledgments, introduction, notes, and index, xi+411 pp. $37.50 hardback. ISBN: 0-226-89641-2....

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles. By Eric Avila. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 cloth. ISBN: 0-520-24121-5....

The Struggle for a Livable City: The Next Los Angeles.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Struggle for a Livable City: The Next Los Angeles. By Robert Gottlieb, Mark Vallianatos, Regina M. Freer, and Peter Dreier. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. List of illustrations, appendix, notes, acknowledgments, and index....

Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003. By Kevin Starr. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Acknowledgments, notes, sources and index, xiii+765 pp. $35.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-679-41288-3. Coast of Dreams, the seventh book in former...

Designing America's Waste Landscapes.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Designing America's Waste Landscapes. By Mira Engler. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Preface, notes, references, and index, xxi+281 pp. $45.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-8018-7003-9. In Designing America's Waste Landscapes Mira...

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Global America, 1915-2000, vol. 4.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 4, Global America, 1915-2000. By D. W. Meinig. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. List of illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, and index....

Senses of Place: Senses of Time.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Senses of Place: Senses of Time. Edited by G. J. Ashworth and Brian Graham. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2005. List of figures, list of contributors, and index, x+229 pp. $99.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-7546-4189-9. Past and future are imaginary...

Reanimating Places: A Geography of Rhythms.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Reanimating Places: A Geography of Rhythms. Edited by Tom Mels. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004. List of figures and tables, preface, acknowledgments, and index. xiv+262 pp. $94.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-7546-4187-2. In Reanimating...

Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America. Edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Preface, notes on contributors, and index,...

The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley. By Warren R. Hofstra. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, and index, xv+410 pp....

The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity.(Book review)
March 22, 2006... The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity. By Gabrielle M. Lanier. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Acknowledgments, appendix, notes, primary sources, and index. xviii+250 pp....