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Title: Curiosity, Inquiry, and the Geographical Imagination
Condition: New
Author: Daniel Gade
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781433115417
ISBN: 9781433115417
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Genre: Business & Finance
Topic: History, Medicine, Science Nature & Math, Society & Culture
Release Date: 23/09/2011
Description: This book examines intellectual curiosity as the driving force in scholarly endeavor on the borderlands of geography, history, anthropology, and other disciplines. The premise is that curiosity is a salient trait of certain people past and present and that each field has its exemplars in this regard. For Carl O. Sauer (1889-1975), America’s leading geographer of the twentieth century, and his intellectual descendants, the inquisitive spirit stood high on the list of indispensable scholarly attributes. Their curiosity-driven studies converging space, time, ecology, and culture involved a fluid and unpredictable process of intellectual discovery. This book, combining the empirical with the philosophical and reflexive, describes how the power of intrinsic motivation and the thread of a romantic consciousness blend with the joy of polymathic exploration.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 230mm
Item Length: 160mm
Item Weight: 560g
Release Year: 2011

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