Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Geography as related to man and the conditions of his habitat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of the human species as to geographical distribution and environment. Broadly, it includes industrial, commercial, and political geography, and that part of ethnology which deals with distribution and physical environment.
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Anthropogeographie Friedrich Ratzels und ihre ideen - geschichtlichen Wurzeln, Bonner Geographische Abhand - lungen, Heft 19 (Bonn, 1956), provides Ratzel's basis ideas in anthropogeography including his relationship to Herder and Ritter, and a valuable bibliography of German second - ary works.
ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE CLARENCE J. GLACKEN 1968
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The term "isolation" was first employed in anthropogeography, the study of the relation of man to his physical environment.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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In contradistinction to continental and intercontinental location, anthropogeography recognizes two other narrower meanings of the term.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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They warned us that our social fabric was stretched beyond its limits, because the inequalities are explosive, the institutions of the democratic state are deeply corrupted, the country has been profoundly mutated, both physically and spiritually, and this new anthropogeography is not expressed by the political elite; in fact, it is not even understood by it.
jmjarmstrong commented on the word anthropogeography
JM is engaged in his daily study of anthropogeography - the pleasures of public transport!
April 6, 2011