Overview
Cultural geography describes and explains the visible material landscapes that different groups of people have fashioned from the physical geographic environment they occupy. There is long-standing interest in culture as a casual mechanism (especially the geographic expression of culture in landscape) and a more recent concern with cultural politics (especially the social and spatial constitution of culture). Cultural geography incorporates both traditional and newer conceptual bases and is closely rlated to other areas of geographic interest (especially social, economic, political, and physical geography), to other academic disciplines (especially history, anthropology, psychology, and sociology), and to such interdisciplinary concerns as women's studies and ethnic studies.
Cultural Geography's first chapter introduces the ideas that have informed the work of cultural geographers, followed by six thematic chapters, each focusing on a particular cultural geographic theme. In each chapter, conceptual material explains the rationale for the theme and empirical material provides examples of analyses conducted by making some observations on the current and possible future status of cultural geograhy. Boxes, figures, tables, and photographs agument the text and facilitate readers' comprehension.