Alternative Geographies

ISBN-13: 9780130871602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 132 str.

Professor John Rennie Short

Opis

This work takes a fresh view of contemporary geographical issues by looking at geographies that have been lost. It discusses Medieval cosmologies, Renaissance magic, feng shui and the knowledge systems of indigenous peoples, offering students an alternative outlook on the Earth.

Spis treści

Figures; Introduction; The Myth of Erisichthon. 1. From Cosmography to Geography; Ptolemy's Cosmography; The Arabic Influence; Renaissance Cosmologies; The Reordering of Things. 2. A Heart-shaped World; Cartography and the Renaissance; Cordiform Maps. 3. Ancient Geographies; Feng Shui; Geomancy. 4. The speaking Land; Trickster Digures; Alternative Notions of Time and Space; The Speaking Land; The Wandering Ground. 5. Postscript: Alternative Geographies, New Cosmologies; A Connected World; A Matter of Method; Celestial and Terrestrial; Macrocosm- Microcosm; Space and Place.

O autorze

John Rennie Short