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Believing in Place
A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin
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2003
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| ISBN | 0874175429, 9780874175424,
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| Language |
English
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| Subject | Religion and geography. TRAVEL -- Budget. -- bisacsh TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks. -- bisacsh TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest. -- bisacsh TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds. -- bisacsh TRAVEL -- Reference. -- bisacsh TRAVEL -- Road Travel. -- bisacsh TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Adventure. -- bisacsh TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Ecotourism. -- bisacsh |
Description
Believing in Place is a reflection on the ways that human needs and spiritual traditions can shape our perceptions of the land. That the Great Basin has inspired such a complex variety of responses is partly due to its enigmatic vastness and isolation, partly to the remarkable range of peoples who have found themselves in the region. Using not only the materials of traditional geography but folklore, anthropology, Native American and Euro-American religion, contemporary politics, and New Age philosophies, Francaviglia has produced a timely investigation of the role of human conceptions of place in that space we call the Great Basin.