Human Geography, Cultural, Geography, Anthropology 

Authoritative and lucidly written, The Human Mosaic spans the full breadth of traditional human geography while incorporating the best of recent insights from cultural studies. Its distinctive thematic approach (chapters are organized around the themes of culture region, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural integration, and cultural landscape) lends coherence to a thoroughly updated text that portrays the cultural geography of the world today.  

Publisher Comments
Carrying forward the legacy of original author Terry Jordan-Bychkov, Mona Domosh and new coauthors Roderick Neumann and Patricia Price offer this thoroughly updated new edition of the acclaimed introduction to the cultural geography of the world today. The result is a text that maintains its original distinctive style while addressing contemporary issues and situations that students care about, most importantly, the continuing phenomenon of globalization.


The Thematic Approach of The Human Mosaic

The Human Mosaic introduces five themes in the opening chapter--culture region, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural interaction, and cultural landscape--then uses those themes as a framework for the topical chapters that follow. Each theme is applied to a variety of geographical topics: demography, agriculture, the city, religion, language, ethnicity, politics, industry, folk and popular culture. Through this organization, students are able to relate to the most important aspects of cultural geography at every point in the text.


Table of Contents
1. Cultural Geography: Science and Art
2. Many Worlds:Geographies of Cultural Difference

3. The Geography of Religion: Spaces and Places of Sacredness

4. Speaking About Places: The Geography of Language

5. Ethnic Geography: Homelands and Islands

6. Political Geography: A Divided World

7. Geodemography: Peopling the Earth

8. Agricultural Geography: Food from the Good Earth

9. Industries: A Faustian Bargain

10. Urbanization: The City in Time and Space

11. Inside the City: A Cultural Mosaic

12. One World or Many? The Cultural Geography of the Future 

Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Terry G Jordan-Bychkov; Mona Domosh; Lester Rowntree
ISBN: 0673998223 9780673998224
OCLC Number: 34513492
Description: xvi, 558 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
Contents: The nature of cultural geography --
People on the land --
The agricultural world --
Political patterns --
The mosaic of languages --
Religious realms --
Folk geography --
Popular culture --
Ethnic geography --
The city in time and space --
The urban mosaic --
Industrial geography --
Education and opportunities in geography.
Responsibility: Terry G. Jordan, Mona Domosh, Lester Rowntree.