Landscapes of Fear

Name: Landscapes of Fear
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ISBN: 9780816684595

ISBN-10: 0816684596

ISBN-13: 9780816684595

Edition: 2013

Authors: Yi-Fu Tuan

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To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful?Landscapes of Fear—written immediately after his classicSpace and Place—is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history.In a series of linked essays that journey broadly across place, time, and cultures, Tuan examines the diverse manifestations and causes of fear in individuals and societies: he describes the horror created by epidemic disease and supernatural visions of witches and ghosts; violence and fear in the country and the city; fears of drought, flood, famine, and disease; and the ways in…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 4/20/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Fear in the Growing Child



The Child as Unformed Nature



"Fearless" Societies



Fear of Nature: Great Hunters and Pioneer Farmers



Natural Calamities and Famines



Fear in the Medieval World



Fear of Disease



Fear of Human Nature: Witches



Fear of Human Nature: Ghosts



Violence and Fear in the Countryside



Fear in the City



Public Humiliation and Execution



Exile and Confinement



The Open Circle



Fears: Past and Present


Notes


Index