ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                                  xi

PLACE IN CONTEXT Rethinking Humanist Geographies                xiii
         Paul C. Adams, Steven Hoelscher, and Karen E. Till


Part I. LANDSCAPES OF DOMINANCE AND AFFECTION

INTRODUCTION Landscapes of Dominance and Affection                 3
         David Ley

FANTASIES IN DARK PLACES The Cultural Geography                    8
of the American Movie Palace
         Karal Ann Marling

WHEN LESS IS MORE Absence and Landscape in a California Ghost Town  24
         Dydia DeLyser

SENSE OF PLACE AS A POSITIONAL GOOD Locating Bedford            41
in Space and Time
         James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan

READING THE WETLANDS                                            55
         William Howarth

MAKING A PET OF NATURE                                          84
         David Lowenthal

LANDSCAPE AS A CONTESTED TOPOS OF PLACE, COMMUNITY, AND SELF    93
         Kenneth R. Olwig


Part II. SEGMENTED WORLDS AND SELVES

INTRODUCTION Segmented Worlds and Selves                       121
        John Paul Jones 111

THE WORLD AND ITS IDENTITY CRISIS                              129
         Wilbur Zelinsky





THE CRITICAL DESCRIPTION OF CONFUSED GEOGRAPHIES               150
         Edward Relph

MAKING UP THE TRAMP Toward a Critical Geosophy                 167
         Tim Cresswell

PERIPATETIC IMAGERY AND PERIPATETIC SENSE OF PLACE             186
         Paul C. Adams

THE FRAGMENTED INDIVIDUAL AND THE ACADEMIC REALM               207
         Michael Curry


Part III. MORALITIES AND IMAGINATION

INTRODUCTION Moralities and Imagination                        223
         Anne Buttimer

PLACE, POWER, AND THE GOOD                                     232
         Robert D. Sack

ATTENDING TO THE VOID Geography and Madness                    246
         Patrick McGreevy

THE GIFT OF PRESENCE The Act of Leaving Artifacts at Shrines,    257
Memorials, and Other Tragedies
         Miles Richardson

REIMAGINING NATIONAL IDENTITY "Chapters of Life" at the German   273
Historical Museum in Berlin
         Karen E. Till

MORAL MAPS AND MORAL PLACES IN THE WORK OF
FRANCIS PARKMAN                                                300
        Jonathan M. Smith


Part IV. COSMOS VERSUS HEARTH

INTRODUCTION Cosmos versus Hearth                              319
         Yi-Fu Tuan

GEOGRAPHY'S COSMOS The Dream and the Whole Round Earth         326
         Denis Cosgrove




BONE-CRONES HAVE NO HEARTH Some Women in the Medieval          340
Wilderness
         Marijane Osborn and Gillian R. Overing

BUT IT'S (NOT) SUPPOSED TO FEEL LIKE HOME                          355
Constructing the Cosmopolitan Hearth
         April R. Veness

CONVERSING DIVERSITY Provincial Cosmopolitanism and                375
America's Multicultural Heritage
         Steven Hoelscher

BODY, SELF, AND LANDSCAPE A Geophilosophical Inquiry into      403
the Place-World
         Edward S. Casey

GEOGRAPHER AS HUMANIST                                             426
         J. Nicholas Entrikin

Contributors                                                       441

Index                                                              447