Journal of Cultural Geography articles from September 2002

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from September 2002

Political culture, religion, and the Confederate Battle Flag debate in Alabama.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. The American South is beset by a series of widespread and vitriolic debates over the meaning of symbols associated with the short-lived Confederate States of America (1861-1865). The largest proportion of these controversies pertains...

Pilgrim networks of the holy shrine of Esquipulas, Guatemala.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. The Shrine of the Black Christ of Esquipulas, Guatemala, attracts over one million pilgrims annually. This research reveals major pilgrim source areas and identifies key variables associated with pilgrim movement to the shrine. Four...

Overlapping ethnicities and negotiated space: Atlanta's Buford Highway.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. The unique intermingling of numerous businesses reflecting varied ethnic affiliations along Buford Highway in Metro Atlanta offers a case study combining cultural, social, and urban geography. Studies of ethnic retail concentrations...

Breakfast in Liaoning Province, China.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. The enormous changes in people's lives that accompany economic development may be expected to lead to changes in diet and other culture traits. In China, beginning in the late 1970s, economic development has been rapid, especially in...

The second conquest: religious conversion and the erosion of the cultural ecological core among the Mopan Maya.
September 22, 2002... ABSTRACT. This paper discusses how Protestant missionaries have affected the core cultural ecological activities among the Mopan Maya, specifically focusing on the maintenance of maize diversity and stingless beekeeping. Although seemingly...

The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Stephen Goldsmith. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Preface, acknowledgments, and index. 256 pp. $14.95 paper. When Stephen Goldsmith stepped down recently as Mayor of Indianapolis, a post he held since 1992, he did so to...

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Janet L. Abu-Lughod. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. Acknowledgments, notes, and index, x+580 pp. $39.95 cloth. Janet Abu-Lughod sets out in this volume to dispel what many have come to accept as an essential truth...

Hazardous Waste in Rural America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Steven H. Murdock. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. List of tables and figures, preface, acknowledgments, appendix, references, index and authors, xx+232 pp. $29.50 paper. The management and storage of hazardous waste is a...

Escapism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Yi-Fu Tuan. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Preface, notes, acknowledgments, illustration credits, and index, xvii+245 pp. $28.00 cloth. Escape is more than just a lineal movement from one place to another, as in...

The Green Republic. A Conservation History of Costa Rica.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Sterling Evans. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1999. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. xvi+317 pp. $19.95 paper. Despite having no National Parks before 1970, today Costa Rica protects 28 percent of its...

Tejano South Texas: a Mexican American Cultural Province.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... By Daniel D. Arreola. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Acknowledgments, notes, references, figure sources, and index, x + 272pp. $55.00 hardcover. By law, Texas is the only state permitted to unilaterally subdivide into as many as...