Culture and Space: Conceiving a New Cultural Geography

by Joel Bonnemaison, Professor John Agnew

Overview

"Culture and Space" provides an engaging introduction to the ideas of Joel Bonnemaison and to his distinctive approach to cultural geography. Bonnemaison spent thirty years in the western Pacific and it was his unique understanding of the region and its islands that forms the basis for his rich, alternative approach. Through an examination of key concepts such as culture and civilization, and the idea of a cultural system, he moves from a critical appreciation of established notions of human and cultural geography to a focus on territory as the centrepiece for his cultural geography. The result is a work that explores fundamental questions about the geography of culture and the anthropology of space, as the author attempts no less than a recrafting of cultural geography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860649080
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/24/2005
Series:	International Library of Human Geography
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.28(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Joel Bonnemaison was Professor of Cultural Geography, University of Paris-Sorbonne. He died in 1997, at the age of 56.

Editorial Reviews

"Bonnemaison’s perspective is infinitely more interesting than most Anglo-American cultural geography." — Mike Hefferman, University of Nottingham

"A very stimulating introduction to cultural geography." — Paul Claval

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