Carrying forward the legacy of original author Terry Jordan-Bychkov, Mona Domosh and new coauthors Roderick Neumann and Patricia Price offer this thoroughly updated new edition of the acclaimed introduction to the cultural geography of the world today.  The result is a text that maintains its original distinctive style while addressing contemporary issues and situations that students care about, most importantly, the continuing phenomenon of globalization.

 

The Thematic Approach of The Human Mosaic

The Human Mosaic introduces five themes in the opening chapterculture region, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural interaction, and cultural landscapethen uses those themes as a framework for the topical chapters that follow. Each theme is applied to a variety of geographical topics: demography, agriculture, the city, religion, language, ethnicity, politics, industry, folk and popular culture. Through this organization, students are able to relate to the most important aspects of cultural geography at every point in the text.

1. Cultural Geography: Science and Art

2. Many Worlds:Geographies of Cultural Difference

3. The Geography of Religion: Spaces and Places of Sacredness

4. Speaking About Places: The Geography of Language

5. Ethnic Geography: Homelands and Islands

6. Political Geography: A Divided World

7. Geodemography: Peopling the Earth

8. Agricultural Geography: Food from the Good Earth

9. Industries: A Faustian Bargain

10. Urbanization: The City in Time and Space

11. Inside the City: A Cultural Mosaic   

12. One World or Many? The Cultural Geography of the Future