Showing Off: The Geltung Hypothesis Tapa blanda - 1996

University of Texas Press, 10/1/1996 12:00:01 A. paperback. Very Good. 0.4882 8.9803 5.9882.

University of Texas Press, 1996. Paperback. New. BRAND NEW COPY, Perfect Shape, No Black Remainder Mark, 374-109

University of Texas Press, 1996. Paperback. New. BRAND NEW COPY, Perfect Shape, Not a Remainder, No Black Remainder Mark MH152-308

Univ of Texas Pr, 1996. Paperback. New. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Hardly a place exists on earth that has not been shaped in some way by human beings. Every day we modify and even sweep away natural landscapes as we build places to live and work. But why we react and interact as social beings intent on exercising ecological dominance poses an endlessly compelling puzzle for everyone from novelists to geographers. In Showing Off, distinguished geographer Philip L. Wagner offers a persuasive hypothesis. Drawing on a lifetime of inquiry, travel, and teaching, he asserts that the strive for Geltung-personal standing, recognition, acceptance, esteem, and influence-shapes all of our interactions and defines the unique social character of human beings. Wagner applies the Geltung hypothesis to a wide range of human activities from falling in love and spreading gossip to buying goods and making war. His examples demonstrate how communication and display-"showing off"-impel geographic change, as they reveal how and why… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.