| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-277) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Landscape and Storytelling -- 2. Darkness and Light -- 3. Water and Memory -- 4. Stories in Stone -- 5. Encounters with the Wind -- 6. In Search of the Great Spirit -- 7. Chosen People, Chosen Land -- 8. Vanishing Cities of Zion -- 9. Pilgrimages to Babylon -- 10. Landscapes of Armageddon -- 11. Into Sacred Places -- 12. Believing in Place. |
| Summary |
"Believing in Place is a reflection on the ways that human needs and spiritual traditions can shape our perceptions of the land. That the Great Basin has inspired such a complex variety of responses is partly due to its enigmatic vastness and isolation, partly to the remarkable range of peoples who have found themselves in the region. Using not only the materials of traditional geography but folklore, anthropology, Native American and Euro-American religion, contemporary politics, and New Age philosophies, Francaviglia has produced a timely investigation of the role of human conceptions of place in that space we call the Great Basin."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Basin -- Religious life and customs.
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Great Basin -- Social life and customs.
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Great Basin -- Description and travel.
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Religion and geography.
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Religion and geography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Francaviglia, Richard V. Believing in place. Reno : University of Nevada Press, ©2003 0874175429 (DLC) 2003001847 (OCoLC)51752076 |
| ISBN |
0874175801 (electronic book) |
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9780874175806 (electronic book) |
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0874175429 (alkaline paper) |
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9780874175424 (alkaline paper) |
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