Journal of Cultural Geography articles from September 2006

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from September 2006

Where is River City, USA? Measuring community attachment to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT. This paper attempts to determine the location of towns self-identifying as metaphorical "River Cities" through quantitative methods informed by concepts of place attachment. Relative levels of river-oriented community attachment are...

The growth of Mexican restaurants in Omaha, Nebraska.
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT. Many studies of ethnicity focus on the attempt to preserve individual group identity through various cultural media including food. In this paper we focus on the diffusion and assimilation of one ethnic group's signature foods into...

Graves as attractions: pilgrimage-tourism to Jewish holy graves in Israel.
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT. Pilgrimage, whether religious or secular, is experiencing resurgence around the world. This research deals with the phenomenon of pilgrimage to the graves of saintly Jews in Israel. Its aim is to analyze the characteristics of Jewish...

Appalachian Songcatcher: Olive Dame Campbell and the Scotch-Irish ballad.
September 22, 2006... ABSTRACT. The discovery of old English song ballads in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky at the turn of the twentieth century has been the subject of fascination by geographers, folklorists and historians for the past century. The...

Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe in America. By Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments and index. viii+186 pp. $17.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8655-4861-7. Elizabeth Hirschman's...

Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Coal and Culture: Opera Houses in Appalachia. By William Faricy Condee. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2005. List of illustrations, preface, notes, bibliography, and index, xii + 210 pp. $29.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-8214-1588-3. Coal and...

The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles. By David E. James. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, and index, xiv+548 pp. $29.95 paper. ISBN:...

Landscape and Images.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Landscape and Images. By John R. Stilgoe. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Preface, acknowledgments, notes on illustrations, and index, xiii+354 pp. $34.95 hardback. ISBN: 0-8139-2321-2. This delightful collection of...

Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment. By Larry R. Ford. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Foreword, notes, and index, x+240 pp. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8122-1898-1. Larry Ford...

GIS Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... GIS Geographic Information Systems for the Social Sciences: Investigating Space and Place. By Steven J. Steinberg and Sheila L. Steinberg. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2006. List of boxes, figures, and tables, preface, glossary, web links,...

Music, Space and Place: Popular Music and Cultural Identity.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Music, Space and Place: Popular Music and Cultural Identity. Edited by Sheila Whiteley, Andy Bennett, and Stan Hawkins. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. List of figures and music examples, list of contributors, acknowledgments, preface,...

Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Seductions of Place: Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes. Edited by Carolyn Cartier and Alan A. Lew. London: Routledge, 2005. List of illustrations and contributors, acknowledgments, bibliography, and index....