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Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Yi-Fu Tuan
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Description for Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JFC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time.“Since it is the breadth and universality of his argument that concerns Yi-Fu Tuan, experience is defined as ‘all the modes by which a person knows and constructs reality,’ and examples are taken with equal ease from non-literate cultures, from ancient and modern oriental and western civilizations, from novels, poetry, anthropology, psychology, and theology. The result is a remarkable synthesis, which reflects well the subtleties ... Read more
A study of the ways in which people feel and think about space, how they form attachments to home, neighborhood, and nation, and how feelings about space and place are affected by the sense of time.“Since it is the breadth and universality of his argument that concerns Yi-Fu Tuan, experience is defined as ‘all the modes by which a person knows and constructs reality,’ and examples are taken with equal ease from non-literate cultures, from ancient and modern oriental and western civilizations, from novels, poetry, anthropology, psychology, and theology. The result is a remarkable synthesis, which reflects well the subtleties ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
333g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816638772
SKU
V9780816638772
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About Yi-Fu Tuan
Yi-Fu Tuan is the J.K. Wright and Vilas professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include The Hydrological Cycle and the Wisdom of God (Toronto), Topophilia (Prentice-Hall), Space and Place (Minnesota), Landscapes of Fear (Pantheon), Segmented Worlds and Self (Minnesota), Dominance and Affection (Yale), The Good Life (Wisconsin), and Morality and Imagination (Wisconsin).
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