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Worldview Flux
Norwine, Jim; Smith, Jonathan M.
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Description for Worldview Flux
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
The most salient feature of the postmodern world, believe geographers Jim Norwine and Jonathan M. Smith, is a new set of beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions that are not yet well developed or widely diffused, so that few if any postmodern people are entirely of the new world or the old. People are "perplexed," their values inchoate. Worldview Flux defines and describes the nature of perplexity and documents the shifts and changes of the postmodern world that lead to it, attending especially to the ways changes are experienced in particular places and human communities. In theoretical chapters contributors explain the reasons ... Read more
The most salient feature of the postmodern world, believe geographers Jim Norwine and Jonathan M. Smith, is a new set of beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions that are not yet well developed or widely diffused, so that few if any postmodern people are entirely of the new world or the old. People are "perplexed," their values inchoate. Worldview Flux defines and describes the nature of perplexity and documents the shifts and changes of the postmodern world that lead to it, attending especially to the ways changes are experienced in particular places and human communities. In theoretical chapters contributors explain the reasons ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739101384
SKU
V9780739101384
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About Norwine, Jim; Smith, Jonathan M.
Jim Norwine is Regents Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Texas A&M University at Kingsville. Jonathan M. Smith is Associate Professor of Geography at Texas A&M University at College Station. Both editors have published widely on cultural and physical geography.
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