Landscapes of fear / Yi-Fu Tuan.
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TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]Edition: First University of Minnesota Press editionDescription: ix, 262 pages ; 22 cmISBN: - 9780816684595 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0816684596 (pb : alk. paper)
- 704.9436 TUA
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? Landscapes of Fear --written immediately after his classic Space 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 which authorities devise landscapes of terror to instill fear and subservience in their own populations.
In this groundbreaking work--now with a new preface by the author--Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discover what is universal and what is particular in our inheritance of fear. Tuan emphasizes that human fear is a constant; it causes us to draw what he calls our "circles of safety" and at the same time acts as a foundational impetus behind curiosity, growth, and adventure.
"Originally published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1979."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. vii)
- Acknowledgments (p. xi)
- 1 Introduction (p. 3)
- 2 Fear in the Growing Child (p. 11)
- 3 The Child as Unformed Nature (p. 25)
- 4 "Fearless" Societies (p. 35)
- 5 Fear of Nature: Great Hunters and Pioneer Farmers (p. 45)
- 6 Natural Calamities and Famines (p. 56)
- 7 Fear in the Medieval World (p. 73)
- 8 Fear of Disease (p. 87)
- 9 Fear of Human Nature: Witches (p. 105)
- 10 Fear of Human Nature: Ghosts (p. 113)
- 11 Violence and Fear in the Countryside (p. 130)
- 12 Fear in the City (p. 145)
- 13 Public Humiliation and Execution (p. 175)
- 14 Exile and Confinement (p. 187)
- 15 The Open Circle (p. 202)
- 16 Fears: Past and Present (p. 209)
- Notes (p. 219)
- Index (p. 245)