| The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities Scholarship Contributor(s): Bodenhamer, David J. (Editor), Corrigan, John (Editor), Harris, Trevor M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253222176 ISBN-13: 9780253222176 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Technology & Engineering | Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems |
| Dewey: 001.302 |
| LCCN: 2009053214 |
| Series: Spatial Humanities |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Geographic information systems (GIS) have spurred a renewed interest in the influence of geographical space on human behavior and cultural development. Ideally GIS enables humanities scholars to discover relationships of memory, artifact, and experience that exist in a particular place and across time. Although successfully used by other disciplines, efforts by humanists to apply GIS and the spatial analytic method in their studies have been limited and halting. The Spatial Humanities aims to re-orient--and perhaps revolutionize--humanities scholarship by critically engaging the technology and specifically directing it to the subject matter of the humanities. To this end, the contributors explore the potential of spatial methods such as text-based geographical analysis, multimedia GIS, animated maps, deep contingency, deep mapping, and the geo-spatial semantic web. |