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Article: Montana Ghost Dance: Essays on Land and Life.(Review)
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- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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By JOHN B. WRIGHT. xiv and 198 pp.; map. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 0292791216; $17.95 (paper), ISBN 0292791208.
The humanistic tradition in geography is an old and well-established part of our disciplinary history. Although contemporary geographers have often pondered the philosophical roots of that humanistic tradition, they have too rarely practiced it. Montana Ghost Dance is an exception. It is an original, highly creative, utterly personal journey into one man's Montana, a work of art which suggests that geographers can indeed make an original humanistic contribution that is blissfully free of jargon and pedantry. John ...