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"Believing in Place is a reflection on the ways that human needs and spiritual traditions can shape our perceptions of the land. That the Great Basin has inspired such a complex variety of responses is partly due to its enigmatic vastness and isolation, partly to the remarkable range of peoples who have found themselves in the region. Using not only the materials of traditional geography but folklore, anthropology, Native American and Euro-American religion, contemporary politics, and New Age philosophies, Francaviglia has produced a timely investigation of the role of human conceptions of place in that space we call the Great Basin."--Jacket.

Religion and geography. --- Geography and religion --- Geography --- Great Basin --- Basin and Range Province --- Intermontane region --- Intermountain Region (U.S.) --- Intermountain West (U.S.) --- Description and travel. --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs.

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"Cultural Resource Management (CRM) refers to the discovery, evaluation, and preservation of culturally significant sites, focusing on but not limited to the archaeological and historical. CRM stems from the National Historic Preservation Act, passed in 1966. In 1986, archaeologists reviewed the practice of CRM in the Great Basin. They concluded that it mainly was a system of finding, flagging, and avoiding -- a means of keeping sites and artifacts safe. Success was measured by counting the number of sites recorded and acres surveyed"--Provided by publisher.

Cultural property --- Cultural property, Protection of --- Cultural resources management --- Cultural policy --- Historic preservation --- Protection. --- Protection --- Government policy --- Great Basin --- Antiquities --- Collection and preservation. --- Cultural policy. --- Basin and Range Province --- Intermontane region --- Intermountain Region (U.S.) --- Intermountain West (U.S.)

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Grazing --- Range ecology --- Ranch life --- Ranchers --- Beef cattle --- Agricultural systems --- Animal feeding --- Range management --- Pastures --- Rangelands --- Rangeland ecology --- Ecology --- Farm life --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Ranchmen --- Stockmen (Animal industry) --- Farmers --- Steers --- Cattle --- Ranching --- Environmental aspects --- History --- Harrell, Jasper, --- Sparks, John, --- Harrell, Barley, --- Great Basin --- Basin and Range Province --- Intermontane region --- Intermountain Region (U.S.) --- Intermountain West (U.S.)

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What Barry Lopez did in expanding our vision of the frozen North in Arctic Dreams, William Fox has done in broadening our perceptions of the desert expanses of the West's Great Basin. Roughly a quarter of a million acres of land spanning much of Utah and most of Nevada, the Great Basin is the highest and driest of the American deserts, a vast empty tract on the nineteenth-century maps of our continent. Explorers and cartographers found it imponderable; pioneers and settlers found it uninhabitable. And today the Great Basin remains a largely unknown and forbidding landscape, one that continues to exercise a powerful influence on human desire and imagination. The Void, the Grid, & the Sign guides us to a place so unusual and disorienting that it can overcome rationality and become the locus for our most fanciful and fearsome projections: mythical rivers, mammoth artistic earthworks, alien spaceships, jet-propelled race cars, and weapons of mass annihilation. In The Void, Fox walks us through this landscape, investigating our responses to the Great Basin's appearance -- a pattern of mountains and valleys on a scale so large, so empty and undifferentiated by shape and form and color, that the visual and cognitive expectations of the human mind are confounded and impaired. The Grid focuses on the evolution of cartography in the nineteenth century and the explorations of John Charles Fremont in his search for the legendary Buenaventura River. Fox invites us on a Great Basin road trip, tracing the net of maps, section markers, railroads, telegraph lines, and highways that humans have thrown across the void throughout history. The Sign considers the language and the metaphors we continue to place around and over the void, revealing the Great Basin as a vast palimpsest where the neon-lined boulevards of Las Vegas overlay and interplay with millennia-old petroglyphs and pictographs. Through vivid and arresting prose drawing from the disciplines of natural history, art history, cognitive psychology, western history, archaeology and anthropology, The Void, the Grid, & the Sign traverses the knowns and the unknowns of the Great Basin, offering a tour de force of inquiry and thought.

Cartography --- Natural history --- Human geography --- Great Basin --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Maps --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- History. --- Geography. --- Fox, William L., --- Travel --- Basin and Range Province --- Intermontane region --- Intermountain Region (U.S.) --- Intermountain West (U.S.) --- Discovery and exploration. --- Description and travel.

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Paleo-Indians --- Indians of North America --- Human ecology --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Indiens du paléolithique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Ecologie humaine --- Chasseurs-cueilleurs --- Food. --- Antiquities. --- Alimentation --- Antiquités --- Great Basin --- Grand Bassin --- -Indians of North America --- -Human ecology --- -Hunting and gathering societies --- -Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Paleo-Americans --- Paleo-Amerinds --- Paleoamericans --- Paleoamerinds --- Paleoindians --- Stone age --- Indians --- Prehistoric peoples --- Food --- Antiquities --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Culture --- -Basin and Range Province --- Intermontane region --- Intermountain Region (U.S.) --- Intermountain West (U.S.) --- -Food --- -Antiquities --- Indiens du paléolithique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Antiquités --- Food gathering societies