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By Gary Backhaus (auth.), Gary Backhaus, John Murungi (eds.)
Symbolic Landscapes offers a definitive number of landscape/place reports that explores symbolic, cultural degrees of geographical meanings. Essays written by way of philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, paintings historians, and literati, carry particular modes of craftsmanship and views to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary examine of the symbolic point human existential spatiality. putting emphasis at the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic which means, in addition to embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the quantity deals a clean, quasi-phenomenological approach.
The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that belief and mind's eye shape a continuum within which either are constantly implicated as enhances. This technique makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of conception and the geography of mind's eye, which means human/cultural geography bargains in simple terms an abstraction if certainly a classy geography is constituted only as a sub-field. Human/cultural geography can purely technique spatial fact via spotting the intimate interrelative dialectic among the imaginitive and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds. This quantity reinvigorates the significance of the subject of symbolism in human/cultural geography, panorama stories, philosophy of position, structure and making plans, and may stand one of the classics within the field.
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An important aspect of this experience is communitas, which is the notion of unmediated communication. This is developed in the dialogical character of the testimonies. In chapter three, “Pu‘u Kohola: Spatial Genealogy of a Hawaiian Symbolic Landscape,” RDK Herman argues that a Time-Geography is necessary to understand the meaning of an annual symbolic ritual—commemorative ceremony. Herman argues that an embodied participation (of which Herman has been a participant) is necessary for a transformational experience.
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