Author: Sarah Menin
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: place, making, matter, mind, constructing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-11-12
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0415314658
ISBN-13: 9780415314657
This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges in, and thus changes, the site in which it is set.
Author: Sarah Menin
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: place, making, matter, mind, constructing
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-11-13
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0415314666
ISBN-13: 9780415314664
This book is a cutting edge study exploring the field of the conception and the tectonic making of place as it impinges in, and thus changes, the site in which it is set.
Author: Thomas F. Thornton
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Keywords: place, nature, culture, tlingit, among
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0295987499
ISBN-13: 9780295987491
In Being and Place among the Tlingit, anthropologist Thomas F. Thornton examines the concept of place in the language, social structure, economy, and ritual of southeast Alaska’s Tlingit Indians. Place signifies not only a specific geographical location but also reveals the ways in which individuals and social groups define themselves. The notion of place consists of three dimensions - space, time, and experience - which are culturally and environmentally structured. Thornton examines each in detail to show how individual and collective Tlingit notions of place, being, and identity ar
Author: Sheila Gaffey
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: place, product, marketing, irish, realisation, semiotic, signifying
Number of Pages: 163
Published: 2004-06
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754639347
ISBN-13: 9780754639343
Author: Tim Cresswell
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: place, transgression, geography, ideology
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1996-03-05
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0816623899
ISBN-13: 9780816623891
In Place/Out of Place was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.What is the relationship between place and behavior? In this fascinating volume, Tim Cresswell examines this question via "transgressive acts" that are judged as inappropriate not only because they are committed by marginalized groups but also because of where they occur.In Place/Out of Place seeks to illustrate the ways in which the idea of geographical de
Author: Edward S. Casey
Publisher: Indiana University Pre
Keywords: place, continental, thought, studies, understanding, renewed, getting, world
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 1993-12-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253208378
ISBN-13: 9780253208378
"... a comprehensive and nuanced account of the role of place in human experience." -- Word Trade"In descriptions of unprecedented scope, power, and concision, Casey illuminates brilliantly the vexing question crucial for our survival: What is our place in Nature?" -- Bruce Wilshire"... wonderfully insightful... " -- The Humanistic PsychologistWhat would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend sheer "placelessness." Despite the pervasiveness of place, for the most part philosophers have neglected it. Here, Casey articulates
Author: Edward S. Casey
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: place, studies, continental, thought, world, understanding, second, renewed, getting
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2009-06-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0253220882
ISBN-13: 9780253220882
What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend the loss of locality. Indeed, the space we occupy has much to do with what and who we are. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of place in our everyday lives, philosophers have neglected it.Since its publication in 1993, Getting Back into Place has been recognized as a pioneering study of the importance of place in people’s lives. This edition includes new material that reflects on the development of the field of environmental philosophy and presents Edward S. Casey’s
