GEOG 3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Participant Observation, Broken Windows Theory, Ethnography
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Franz boas (1858-1942): challenged biological determinism, father of cultural anthropology in the u. s: bio determinism = idea that human biology esp. race determines behavior, boas = jewish immigrant. Found life to be wasteful & unsustainable : the morphology of landscape (1925) Our hands the work of man shape the natural environment. The shaping force is culture we can change our culture if we want to hange our environment. The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape the result . the natural landscape is of course of fundamental importance, for it supplies the materials out of which the cultural landscape is formed. The shaping force, however, lies in the culture itself : for sauer, culture was superorganic, holistic, & territorially bound ^^[pg. All cult. practices & cult. ideas are the products of histories/interactions (people are unequally positioned in these interactions)
