Routledge library editions., Social theory ;, v. 15.
Originally published: London: Croom Helm, 1978.
Introduction: Contexts of modern humanism in geography / David Ley and Marwyn S. Samuels --;PART ONE: EPISTOMOLOGICAL ORIENTATIONS: Existentialism and human geography / Marwyn S. Samuels --;Social geography and social action / David Ley --;Charism and context: the challenge of La Geographie Humaine / Anne Buttimer --;The Vidal-Durkheim debate / Vincent Berdoulay --;Towards a humanized concept of economic geography / Iain Wallace --;Of ambiguity or far cries from a memorializing manifesto / Gunnar Olsson --;PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS: The historical mind and the practice of geography / Cole Harris --;Understanding the subjective meaning of places / Edward Gibson --;The landscape indicators school in German geography / Robert Geipel --;Reflections on experimental field work / Graham D. Rowles --;Literature and geography: implications for geographical research / YI-Fu Twan --;Introducing the cardiography of reality / Denis Wood --;PART THREE: SOME RESEARCH DIRECTIONS: The concepts of "Place" and "Land" in the Judeo-Christian tradition / James M. Houston --;Goethe's approach to the natural world: implications for environmental theory and education / David Seamon --;The structuring of space in place names and words for place / David E. Sopher --;The social construction of unreality: an interactionist approach to the tourist's cognition of environment / James S. Duncan --;Individual and landscape: thoughts on China and the Tao of Mao / Marwyn S. Samuels --;Knowing one's place: "The colored people" and the Group Areas Act in Cape Town / John Western --;The urban community movement: moving toward public households / James T. Lemon.