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СЪВРЕМЕННО РАЗВИТИЕ НА АНТРОПОГЕОГРАФИЯТА
Modern development of anthropogeography

Author(s): Petar Stoyanov
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Human Geography, Regional Geography, Historical Geography, Environmental Geography, Applied Geography, Sociology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ
Keywords: modern anthropogeography, geographic schools; human beings;action paradigm;

Summary/Abstract: Anthropogeography is one of major branches in modern geography. Emerged at the end of 19th century in German geography, today it is wide spread in all geographic schools, though with different names: Anthropogeographie/Humangeographie, human geography, geografia humana, geographie humaine, социально-экономическая география, общественная география and so on. A plenty of definitions exists about its research subject: space-man relations, spatial organization of human actions, and spatial organization of society. In anthropology it is a branch dealing with geographic distribution of human beings. Anthropogeography went several periods of development depending on domination of leading paradigms, concepts and approaches. Accordingly an attempt will be made in this study to define the most important paradigms, respectively periods of modern anthropogeography: geodeterministic; spatial-scientific; possibilism; cultural landscape; functional phase; phase of social geography; scientism approach to economic and social geography; phase of behavior and decision making approaches; humanistic geography; qualitative social geography; oriented to action paradigm and so on.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 3-44
  • Page Count: 42
  • Language: Bulgarian
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