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The natures of maps cartographic constructions of the natural world

Denis Wood John Fels

Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades    (526 W874n )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    The natures of maps cartographic constructions of the natural world
  • Autor: Denis Wood
  • John Fels
  • Assuntos: Map reading; Cartography -- Philosophy; Cartography -- Social aspects; Kartographie; CARTOGRAFIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-227)
  • Descrição: Introduction: don't skip this -- 1. The nature of maps -- 2. The propositional logic of the map -- 3. Reading land of the living fossils -- 4. Threatened nature -- 5. Threatening nature -- 6. Nature as grandeur -- 7. Nature as cornucopia -- 8. Possessable nature -- 9. Nature as system -- 10. Nature as mystery -- 11. Nature as park
    The authors demonstrate that maps of the natural, physical world are just as culturally and socially constructed as any map of property or territory
  • Editor: Chicago University of Chicago Press
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2008
  • Formato: xviii, 230 p. ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) 29 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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