ABSTRACT
This book has begun from the premise that we are part of the cultural world. All our ideas and actions combine to produce places. This production occurs both in our everyday activities, but also in the process of us investigating cultures and their locations – in doing cultural geography. In their own ways, our research encounters take and make place. They leave traces which mark our presence in a place during our research, then absence when we leave. The nature of the traces we leave says something about our research methods, and says something about us. What sort of research methods should we use to investigate cultural geography, and what sort of traces should we leave?
