GPHY 229 Chapter Notes - Chapter wk3: Elitism, Carl O. Sauer, Eurocentrism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 229
• Professor: George Lovell

Document Summary

Price and lewis the reinvention of cultural geography 1993. Hard for ncg & tcg to come together/collaborate. Currently; reinvention of cultural geography, not revitalisation. Completely different questions and ideas put forward in ncg. Ncg; focus on situating their work within older/larger theoretical fields: de(cid:271)u(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g tcg is (cid:272)o(cid:373)pletel(cid:455) u(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)essa(cid:396)(cid:455); does(cid:374)(cid:859)t fu(cid:396)the(cid:396) ncg fi(cid:374)di(cid:374)gs/(cid:396)esea(cid:396)(cid:272)h. Tcg often thought as synonymous with berkeley school and its leader carl o sauer. Critics of tcg say it was too antiquarian/focus on material artefacts on the landscape. Criticism of the methodology for being only observational; unfounded: sauer was too conservative; little political progress from tcg. Ignores other scholars who were concerned with social political outcomes. Env concerns were central to the berkeley school. Du(cid:374)(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:859)s supe(cid:396)o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)i(cid:272) (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e thesis dis(cid:272)(cid:396)edited be(cid:396)kele(cid:455) s(cid:272)hool(cid:859)s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k. Critique was that tcg was too narrowly focused, concerned only with physical features/artefacts. Carl sauer brought cultural geography to usa in 1920s; german origins. Little of the be(cid:396)kele(cid:455) s(cid:272)hool(cid:859)s lite(cid:396)atu(cid:396)e (cid:449)as fo(cid:272)used just o(cid:374) a(cid:396)tefa(cid:272)ts.