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Patterned Ground: Entanglements of Nature and Culture
Harrison Stepha
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Description for Patterned Ground: Entanglements of Nature and Culture
Paperback. Unravels the entangled relationships between nature and culture. This title includes around 100 entries by leading names in geography and related disciplines that focus on various objects in the landscape - from beaches to battlefields, bees to horses, police stations to post-offices, trees to tractors. Editor(s): Thrift, Nigel; Harrison, Stephan; Pile, Steve. Num Pages: 312 pages, 80 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RGC; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 174 x 26. Weight in Grams: 680.
"Patterned Ground" unravels the entangled relationships between nature and culture. Around 100 entries by leading names in new geography and related disciplines focus on various 'objects' in the landscape - from beaches to battlefields, bees to horses, police stations to post-offices, trees to tractors. Each piece, written by an expert in the field, explores the way in which we understand that object and its relationship to the world around it. This book is neither encyclopedia nor dictionary, but a knowledgeable and impassioned engagement with the world. In this sense, it chimes with earlier experiments in understanding the earth and its ... Read more
"Patterned Ground" unravels the entangled relationships between nature and culture. Around 100 entries by leading names in new geography and related disciplines focus on various 'objects' in the landscape - from beaches to battlefields, bees to horses, police stations to post-offices, trees to tractors. Each piece, written by an expert in the field, explores the way in which we understand that object and its relationship to the world around it. This book is neither encyclopedia nor dictionary, but a knowledgeable and impassioned engagement with the world. In this sense, it chimes with earlier experiments in understanding the earth and its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861891815
SKU
V9781861891815
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Harrison Stepha
Stephan Harrison is Senior Research Associate at the School of Geography, Oxford University. Steve Pile is Reader at The Open University, Milton Keynes. Nigel Thrift is Head of the Life & Environmental Sciences Division, Oxford University.
Reviews for Patterned Ground: Entanglements of Nature and Culture
A highly intriguing and original collection of ideas about nature and culture by a large and articulate team of leading academics. Readers will be challenged to think anew about the nature and coherence of Geography
Andrew Goudie, Master of St Cross College, Oxford, and Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopodia of Geomorphology (2003)
Andrew Goudie, Master of St Cross College, Oxford, and Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopodia of Geomorphology (2003)