Cultural Geography is concerned with making sense of people and the places they occupy through analyses and understandings of cultural processes, cultural landscapes, and cultural identities. This book contains six substantive thematic chapters on cultural geography: landscape evolution, regions and landscape, ecology and landscape, behaviour and landscape, unequal groups—unequal landscapes, and landscape, identity and symbol. Each thematic chapter focuses on a particular cultural geographic theme, explains the rationale for the theme, and provides examples of analyses conducted by cultural geographers. The first edition of the book was received as a pioneering attempt to integrate traditional and new cultural geography.

Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Photo Essays Preface 1. Introducing Cultural Geography Doing Cultural Geography What this Book is About Providing a Context What is Culture? Themes in Cultural Geography Concluding Comments Further Reading 2. The Tradition of Cultural Geography Separating Humans and Nature Environmental Determinism Human Use of Nature The Landscape School Toward Holistic Emphases Concluding Comments Further Reading 3. Rethinking Cultural Geography Spatial Analysis Humanisms Behavioural Geographies Marxisms Feminisms The Cultural Turn The Mode of Representation Conducting Research Studying Society Concluding Comments Further Reading 4. Environments, Ethics, Landscapes? Ecology: A Unifying Science? Rethinking Ecological Approaches Environmental Ethics Global Landscape Change During the Past 12,000 Years Concluding Remarks Further Reading 5. Landscape Evolution Cultural Diffusion Cultural Contact and Transfer Shaping Landscapes Imagining Past Landscapes Concluding Remarks Further Reading 6. Regional Landscapes What are Cultural Regions? Forming Cultural Regions Regions as Homelands Shaping the Contemporary World Global Regions Concluding Comments Further Reading 7. Identity, Power, Global Landscapes One World Divided The Mistaken Idea of Race The Reality of Racism Ethnicity and Nationality A Cultural Geography of Our Unequal World Concluding Remarks Further Reading 8. Other Voices, Other Landscapes Socially Constructed Identities Sameness and Difference Gender Sexuality Other Peoples and Landscapes Identity, Resistance, Landscape Individual and Group Rights Concluding Remarks Further Reading 9. Living in Place Revisiting Place and People Imagining Places Writing and Reading Places Consuming Places Concluding Comments Further Reading 10. Cultural Geography--Continuing and Unfolding Cultural Landscapes Global Cultural Geographies Difference and Others Subdiscipline or Heterotopia? Further Reading Glossary References Index

Professor William Norton Department of Geography, University of Manitoba