Earth Ways

Framing Geographical Meanings

Gary Backhaus, John Murungi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2004
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-0764-5 (ISBN)

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What is the connection between anthropology, philosophy, and geography? How does one locate the connection? Can a juncture between these disciplines also accommodate history, sociology and other applied and theoretical forms of knowledge? In Earth Ways: Framing Geographical Meanings, editors Gary Backhaus and John Murungi challenge their contributors to find the location that would enable them to bridge their "home disciplines" to philosophical and geographical thought. This represents no easy task. Essayists are charged with building a set of conceptual bridges and what emerges is a unique co-joined topography; sets of ideas united by a painstaking and rigorous interdisciplinary framework. Earth Ways is a salient rendering of interdisciplinary thought in contemporary humanities and social sciences scholarship.

Gary Backhaus teaches philosophy at Morgan State University. John Murungi is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Towson University.

0 Introduction: Earth Ways: The Primordial Relation Between the Ways of Knowing and the Ways fo Earthly Phenomena
Chapter 1 Herodotus and the Origins of Geography: The Strange, the Familiar, and the Earthbound
Chapter 2 Conceptualizing World Environmental History: The Contribution of Immanuel Wallerstein
Part 2 Framing Historical Contexts
Chapter 5 Rousseau in the Suburbs: Geography, Environment, and the Philosophical Turn
Part 6 Framing Substantive Theories
Chapter 7 Toward a Phenomenology of Cognitive Mapping
Chapter 7 A Contextualized Science and the Changing Landscapes of India: A Case Study of Science as a Graft
Chapter 8 The Die is Cast: Boundaries of Time, Boundaries of Space
Chapter 8 Pirates and the Geography of Knowledge: America and Algiers in the Late-Eighteenth Century
Chapter 9 The Geography of Material Culture and an Outline for Synergetic Geography
Part 10 Framing Case Studies of Specific Time-Places
Chapter 13 Finding the There There: Local Space, Global Ritual, and Early Cold War Berlin

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.4.2004
Co-Autor	Deepanwita Dasgupta, Robert Kirkman, Jason W. Moore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 228 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7391-0764-X / 073910764X
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-0764-5 / 9780739107645
Zustand	Neuware