Product Description: Newly available in paper, the Atlas of World Cultures is the ultimate resource for locating the myriad of cultures described in the ethnographic literature. The heart of the Atlas is a set of 40 maps which physically locate over 3500 groups, tribes or peoples...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1990, this is the ultimate resource for geographically locating the myriad of cultures described in ethnographic literature. The heart of Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature is a set of forty-one maps that physically locate for the researcher more than 3500 groups, tribes or peoples...read more

Product Description: This text reader brings together the work of notable cultural geographers and folklife scholars to provide a clear and engaging overview of American folklife. Defining folklife as the traditional shared culture of familial, ethnic, occupational, religious, and regional groups, this anthology strikes a balance between material and nonmaterial culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nazareth, the largest Arab city in Israel, is a surprising example of ethnic harmony in a region dominated by conflict. A recent trend toward integration of its historical Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Muslim quarters however, has disrupted the harmony...read more

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text traces some of the ways in which border metaphors pervade Canadian consciousness. It addresses a variety of social issues such as separatism, marginalization, multiculturalism, colonial attitudes, national policies, language and the influence of the United States. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the heart of the European debate lies the tension between the idea of European unity and individual state identities and nationalisms. This volume provides some insight into this dichotomy by exploring the role of heritage in a new Europe...read more

Product Description: A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study. Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points Charts significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century as well as the principal approaches that currently animate work in the field A valuable resource not just for geographers but also those working in allied fields who wish to get a clear understanding of the contribution geography is making to cross-disciplinary debates...read more

North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors, North America, is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. Continental Divides is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among  cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She investigates how our understanding of key themes, genres, and periods within U.S. cultural study is deepened, and in some cases transformed, when Canada and Mexico enter the picture. How, for example, does the work of the iconic American writer Jack Kerouac read differently when his Franco-American origins and Mexican travels are taken into account? Or how would our conception of American modernism be altered if Mexico were positioned as a center of artistic and political activity? In this engaging analysis, Adams charts the lengthy and often unrecognized traditions of neighborly exchange, both hostile and amicable, that have left an imprint on North America’s varied cultures.

Introducing culture from a geographical perspective, this text focuses on how cultures work in practice, looking at cultures embedded in real-life situations, as locatable, specific phenomena. Exploring the diversity and plurality of life, it highlights changes in current societies and the dilemmas of a 'pick and mix' relationship to culture.

Product Description: Cultural geography is concerned with making sense of people and the places they occupy through analyses and understandings of cultural processes, cultural landscapes, and cultural identities. "Cultural Geography, Second Edition" contains six substantive thematic chapters on cultural geography that focus on a particular cultural geographic theme, explains the rationale for the theme, and provides examples of analyses conducted by cultural geographers...read more

Product Description: A classic exploration of the role of geography in shaping the people and destiny of the United States.

Product Description: Cultural Geography emphasizes the nature of the human/environment relationship as it varies over time and across space. This text is organized around five main themes: culture, cultural history, cultural ecology, cultural landscape, and cultural regions...read more

Product Description: The Cultural Geography Reader draws together fifty-two classic and contemporary abridged readings that represent the scope of the discipline and its key concepts. Readings have been selected based on their originality, accessibility and empirical focus, allowing students to grasp the conceptual and theoretical tools of cultural geography through the grounded research of leading scholars in the field...read more

Product Description: Cultural geography describes and explains the visible material landscapes that different groups of people have fashioned from the physical geographic environment they occupy. There is long-standing interest in culture as a casual mechanism (especially the geographic expression of culture in landscape) and a more recent concern with cultural politics (especially the social and spatial constitution of culture)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Cultural Globalization: A User’s Guide is a personal and engaging journey through theories of culture and globalization. Drawing on extensive examples and interdisciplinary research, Wise explores concepts of culture, territory and identity in order to give students a new perspective on issues of globalization. Includes numerous examples from Asian, European, and North American youth culture and popular music Draws on interdisciplinary research from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, and media studies Considers how global processes carry with them the ethical questions of how to act in the world and how to care for others Provides an original and stimulating overview of theories of culture and globalization, encouraging students think more broadly about the key issues

Product Description: The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence. These landscapes are not stable, and the recent and ever accelerating changes in technology and life-style have increasingly affected many ancient landscapes, as old land-use practices are abandoned and traditions forgotten...read more

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