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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY Volume 15 HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHY This page intentionally left blank HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHY Prospects and Problems Edited by DAVID LEY AND MARWYN S. SAMUELS R Routledge Taylor &. Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published in 1978 This edition first published in 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 1978 David Ley and Marwyn S. Samuels All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-415-83447-6 (Set) eISBN: 978-1-315- 84860-0 (Set) ISBN: 978-0-415-73486-8 (Volume 15) eISBN: 978-1-315-81965-5 (Volume 15) Publisher’s Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and would welcome correspondence from those they have been unable to trace. HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHY PROSPECTS AND PROBLEMS Edited by David Ley and Marwyn S. Samuels CROOM HELM LONDON First published in the USA 1978 by Maaroufa Press, Inc. 610 North Fairbanks Court, Chicago, Illinois 60611 First published in Great Britain 1978 by Croom Helm Ltd 2-10 St John’s Road, London SW11 © 1978 Maaroufa Press, Inc. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Humanistic geography. 1. Anthropo-geography I. Ley, David II. Samuels, Marwyn Stewart 909 GF41 ISBN 0-7099-0168-2 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Limited Trowbridge & Esher for Sandy and Carmencita CONTRIBUTORS VINCENT BERDOULAY Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Planning at the University of Ottawa, Ontario ANNE BUTTIMER Professor of Geography at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts JAMES S. DUNCAN Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver ROBERT GEIPEL Professor of Geography at the Technical University, Munich EDWARD GIBSON Associate Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia COLE HARRIS Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver JAMES M. HOUSTON Principal of Regent College, Vancouver, and Honorary Lecturer in Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver JAMES T. LEMON Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto DAVID LEY Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver GUNNAR OLSSON Professor of Geography and Planning at the Nordic Institute of Planning, Stockholm GRAHAM D. ROWLES Assistant Professor of Geography at West Virginia University, Morgantown MARWYN S. SAMUELS Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver DAVID SEAMON Assistant Professor of Geography at York College, York, Pennsylvania DAVID E. SOPHER Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York YI-FU TUAN Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis IAIN WALLACE Associate Professor of Geography at Carieton University, Ottawa, Ontario JOHN WESTERN Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography at the Ohio State University, Columbus DENIS WOOD Assistant Professor of Design at North Carolina State University, Raleigh CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction: Contexts of Modern Humanism in Geography 1 David Ley and Marwyn S. Samuels PART ONE EPISTEMOLOGICAL ORIENTATIONS Overview 19 Chapter 2 Existentialism and Human Geography 22 Marwyn S. Samuels Chapter 3 Social Geography and Social Action 41 David Ley Chapter 4 Charism and Context: The Challenge of La Geographie Humaine 58 Anne Buttimer Chapter 5 The Vidal-Durkheim Debate 77 Vincent Berdoulay Chapter 6 Towards a Humanized Conception of Economic Geography 91 Iain Wallace Chapter 7 Of Ambiguity or Far Cries from a Memorializing Mamafesta 109 Gunnar Olsson PART TWO METHODOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS Overview 121 Chapter 8 The Historical Mind and the Practice of Geography 123 Cole Harris Chapter 9 Understanding the Subjective Meaning of Places 138 Edward Gibson Chapter 10 The Landscape Indicators School in German Geography 155 Robert Geipel Chapter 11 Reflections on Experiential Field Work 173 Graham D. Rowles Chapter 12 Literature and Geography: Implications for Geographical Research 194 Yi-Fu Tuan Chapter 13 Introducing the Cartography of Reality 207 Denis Wood PART THREE SOME RESEARCH DIRECTIONS Overview 221 Chapter 14 The Concepts of “Place” and “Land” in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition 224 James M. Houston Chapter 15 Goethe’s Approach to the Natural World: Implications for Environmental Theory and Education 238 David Seamon
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