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ISBN/EAN: 9783319208497

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978-3-319-20849-7
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Autor des Buches: christian blüm
Titel des Buches: spell, time space

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Autor/in: Daniel W. Gade
Titel: Spell of the Urubamba - Anthropogeographical Essays on an Andean Valley in Space and Time
Verlag: Springer; Springer International Publishing
354 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015-10-05
Cham; CH
Gedruckt / Hergestellt in Großbritannien.
Sprache: Englisch
149,79 € (DE)
154,00 € (AT)
177,00 CHF (CH)
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XV, 354 p. 94 illus., 69 illus. in color.

EA; E107; eBook; Nonbooks, PBS / Geowissenschaften/Stadtplanung, Raumplanung, Landschaftsplanung; Humangeographie; Verstehen; Andean Region; Geography of Peru; Incas; Machu Picchu; Urubamba Valley; landscape/regional and urban planning; Environmental Geography; B; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Environmental Geography; Human Geography; Cultural Studies; Anthropology; Human Geography; Physical Geography; Cultural Studies; Anthropology; Earth and Environmental Science; Physische Geographie und Topographie; Kulturwissenschaften; Anthropologie; BB

Preface.- The Urubamba Valley in Panoptic Perspective.- Urubamba Travelers as Generators of Knowledge.- Urubamba Verticality: Reflections on Crops and Diseases.- The Sacred Valley as a Zone of Productivity, Privilege and Power.- Vilca in Andean Culture History: Psychotropic Associations in Urubamba and Beyond.- Mysterious Ucumari: The Andean Bear in Nature and Culture.- Urubamba Ramble: Hiram Bingham’s Artful Encounter with Machu Picchu.- Vilcabamba: Fabled Redoubt of the Urubamba Region.- Highland and Lowland Peoples in Contact in the Tropical Urubamba.- Conclusion: The Spell is Cast.- Notes.- Glossary.- Index.

For more than 50 years and on four continents, Daniel W. Gade (b. 1936) has carried out research in cultural-historical geography. Regionally, his investigations have focused especially on the Central Andes on which he published two previous books and 50 peer-reviewed articles. In all of his studies, in South America and elsewhere, the author has integrated space, time, culture and ecology in order to elucidate the multiple dimensions of place. Taken together, his scholarly work manifests a keen intellectual curiosity, phenomenological imagination, polymathic exploration and self-reflexivity. Over the decades support for his fieldwork has come from the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, the Comité Conjunto España-Estados Unidos, the Social Science Research Council, several research Fulbright awards and the University of Vermont. Professor Emeritus Daniel Gade, taught geography at the University of Vermont for 33 years. At various times during that period he was also a research fellow in Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University and received residential grants from the John Carter Brown Library in Providence and the Camargo Foundation in France.

This new book focuses on the Urubamba Valley of Peru, which spans 4000 meters of altitude mostly in the Department of Cusco. More than one million visitors a year come to the Urubamba, especially to experience Machu Picchu, which overlooks the valley floor. The book, based on over 50 years of research and field work, represents an impressive accumulation of regional knowledge and testifies to how a long scholarly commitment can lead to a deep understanding of place, that probes the present and past, human and non-human, common and uncommon.

This book fills a gap in the geographical literature of the Andes

Converges nature and culture into a seamless whole

Author reflects on changes in the valley that have occurred within a lifetime of research

The Urubamba Valley is a microcosm of Andean land and life