Description: Landscapes of Fear, Paperback by Tuan, Yi-Fu, ISBN 0816684596, ISBN-13 9780816684595, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Tuan (emeritus, geography U. of Wisconsin, Madison) examines how spaces of fear shift as we grow, through history and through our personal lives. Taun starts with how fear changes in a growing child, then examines the child as unformed nature, what happens to fear in "fearless" societies, what fear does in nature and great hunters and then does to pioneer farmers, how fear figures in natural calamities and famines. Next Tuan examines fear in the medieval world, fear of disease, fear of witches and ghosts, violence and fear in the countryside and in the city, public humiliation and execution, exile and confinement, fear in the open circle, and in conclusion, the history of fears, past and present. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
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Book Title: Landscapes of Fear
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Landscapes of Fear
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Subject: Human Geography, Anxieties & Phobias, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.1 Oz
Author: Yi-Fu Tuan
Item Length: 8.8 in
Subject Area: Nature, Social Science, Self-Help, History
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
