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"Berkeley School" genius: musings on a feng-shui perspective.
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Yearbook of the Association of Pacific CoastGeographers
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January 1, 2008
- Author:
- Nemeth, David
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ABSTRACT
Exotic feng-shui practices are an increasingly popular form of applied geography in Anglo-America today. Hardly scientific, feng-shui is, however, systematic, complex, and profound in the context of its own cosmology and symbolism. In this article, I muse on the provenance of "Berkeley School" genius at the UC Berkeley site in relation to its "power of place," using a simplified feng-shui model. My examples introduce and elaborate on the propitious synchronicities found at the site perhaps responsible for the flowering of three prestigious "Berkeley Schools" of creative endeavor following WWI: Carl Sauer's Berkeley School of Cultural Geography; Alfred Kroeber' s ...
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