Journal of Cultural Geography articles from September 2003

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from September 2003

Message from the editor.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... It is with deep sadness that I share the news that in October cultural geography lost two of its finest practitioners and most ardent devotees: Lou Seig, past editor of this journal, and Terry Jordan, the Walter Prescott Webb Professor of...

Ethnogenesis and cultural geography.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. By working largely unaware of the huge literature in anthropology and certain other social sciences on ethnogenesis, Western cultural/historical and ethnic geographers remain aside from the mainstream in this inquiry and in fact do...

Defining American homelands: a Creek Nation example, 1828-1907.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. Homelands are places where people have bonded with their landscape in an uncommon manner. The majority of homeland case studies have revolved around five components--people, place, bonding with place, control of place, and time. Some...

Microbreweries as tools of local identity.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. During the 1990s, over 1,500 microbreweries sprouted and flourished across the country. This expansion of microbreweries derives, in part, from the desire of people to break away from the smothering homogeneity of popular, national...

Not just jello and hot dishes: representative foods of Minnesota.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. This paper explores representative foods of Minnesota through 130 menus offered by residents as typical regional meals to serve to out-of-state guests. The data come from an extensive mailed survey of people targeted because of their...

Competing identities and contested places: Mormons in Nauvoo and Voree.
September 22, 2003... ABSTRACT. The religious restoration movement in the early nineteenth century United States that involved the emergence of the Mormon (Latter Day Saint) family of religions has contributed to the complex politics of identity and place that...

In memoriam: Louis Seig (1931-2003).
September 22, 2003... Lou Seig's career in geography, marked by tireless service as a dedicated educator and ardent supporter of our discipline, spanned nearly three decades. He influenced and advised countless students and became a respected administrator who...

Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About the West.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Edited by Gary J. Hausladen. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, contributors, and index, xiv+343 pp. $49.95 hardback. ISBN 0-87417-531-3. Grappling with the many layers of...

Holocaust City: the Making of a Jewish Ghetto.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Tim Cole. New York: Routledge, 2003. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, and index, xv+303 pp. $19.95 paperback. IBSN 0-415-92969-5. The past twenty years have witnessed steadily increasing interest in the Holocaust among scholars and the...

Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Mona Domosh and Joni Seager. New York: Guilford Press, 2001. Figures and tables, acknowledgments, preface, references, and index, xviii+215 pp. $18.95 paperback. ISBN 157230-668-8. Putting Women in Place is an ambitious project with the...

American Space/American Place: Geographies of the Contemporary United States.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Edited by John A. Agnew and Jonathan M. Smith. New York: Routledge, 2002. Preface, discussion questions, further reading, and index, xii+365 pp. $26.95 paperback. ISBN 0-415-93532-6. Serving as the springboard for American Space/American...

Mythic Galveston: Reinventing America's Third Coast.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Susan Wiley Hardwick. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Preface, acknowledgments, bibliography, and index. xii+175 pp. $42.95 hardback. ISBN 0-8018-6887-4. Having spent only three years in Texas, remarkably Susan Hardwick...

It Happened on Washington Square.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... By Emily Kies Folpe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Preface, acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliographic essay, and index, xii+353 pp. $22.50 hardback. ISBN 0-8018 7088-7. It Happened on Washington...