Landscapes of Fear av Yi-Fu Tuan

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<DIV><P><BR>To be human is to experience fear, but what is it exactly that makes us fearful? <I>Landscapes of Fear</I>—written immediately after his classic <I>Space and Place</I>—is renowned geographer Yi-Fu Tuan’s influential exploration of the spaces of fear and of how these landscapes shift during our lives and vary throughout history.</P><BR><P>In a series of linked essays that journey broadly across place, time, and cultures, Tuan examines the diverse manifestations and causes of fear in individuals and societies: he describes the horror created by epidemic disease and supernatural visions of witches and ghosts; violence and fear in the country and the city; fears of drought, flood, famine, and disease; and the ways in which authorities devise landscapes of terror to instill fear and subservience in their own populations. </P><BR><P>In this groundbreaking work—now with a new preface by the author—Yi-Fu Tuan reaches back into our prehistory to discove