Landscapes of fear / Yi-Fu Tuan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-2022.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fear.

Landscapes--Psychological aspects.

Landscapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Landscapes of Fear 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 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Fear in the Growing Child

3. The Child as Unformed Nature

4. "Fearless" Societies

5. Fear of Nature: Great Hunters and Pioneer Farmers

6. Natural Calamities and Famines

7. Fear in the Medieval World

8. Fear of Disease

9. Fear of Human Nature: Witches

10. Fear of Human Nature: Ghosts

11. Violence and Fear in the Countryside

12. Fear in the City

13. Public Humiliation and Execution

14. Exile and Confinement

15. The Open Circle

16. Fears: Past and Present

Notes

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

"Originally published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1979."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8166-8494-4

OCLC:

858229067