Maps of Meaning
This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments. Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context of contemporary social and cultural theory.

Notions of place and space are explored through the study of elite and popular cultures, gender and sexuality, race, language and ideology. Questioning the ways in which we invest the world with meaning, the book is an introduction to both culture's geographies and the geography of culture.

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Maps of Meaning
This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments. Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context of contemporary social and cultural theory.

Notions of place and space are explored through the study of elite and popular cultures, gender and sexuality, race, language and ideology. Questioning the ways in which we invest the world with meaning, the book is an introduction to both culture's geographies and the geography of culture.

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Maps of Meaning

Maps of Meaning

by Peter Jackson
Maps of Meaning

Maps of Meaning

by Peter Jackson

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This innovative book marks a significant departure from tradition anlayses of the evolution of cultural landscapes and the interpretation of past environments. Maps of Meaning proposes a new agenda for cultural geography, one set squarely in the context of contemporary social and cultural theory.

Notions of place and space are explored through the study of elite and popular cultures, gender and sexuality, race, language and ideology. Questioning the ways in which we invest the world with meaning, the book is an introduction to both culture's geographies and the geography of culture.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415090889
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/27/1989
Edition description: REPRINT
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1530L (what's this?)

About the Author

Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at Sheffield University.

Table of Contents

1. The Heritage of Cultural geography 2. Problems and Alternatives 3. Culture and Ideology 4. Popular Culture and the Politics of Class 5. Gender and Sexuality 6. Languages of Racism 7. The Politics of Language 8. An Agenda for Cultural Geography

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