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Studying Cultural Landscapes. Edited by Iain Robertson and Penny Richards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Acknowledgments, list of contributors, list of figures, list of tables, landscape glossary, bibliography, and index, xv+199 pp. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 0-340-76268-3.
Landscape, one of geography's most powerful concepts, is especially relevant to cultural geographers. Is there a better perspective for looking at, seeing, and understanding how humans have organized ourselves and our activities on the surface of the earth? This key perspective has continued to evolve since first introduced by Carl Sauer generations ago. It is emerging as a view that is decidedly less deterministic and static. Today's notion of the concept may be more dynamic, layered, textual,...
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