GY 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cultural Geography, Palimpsest, Lebensraum

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Geography
• Course: GY 377
• Professor: Steven Ericson

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Chapter 2: the history of cultural geography (cid:1005). E(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:449)hat the authors (cid:373)ea(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) the (cid:862)god-tri(cid:272)k. (cid:863) (cid:894)p. (cid:1005)(cid:1007)(cid:895) What are these phases and how do they differ from one another? (pgs. First: (cid:858)geograph(cid:455) fa(cid:271)ulous(cid:859) occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where early science combined with mythology and magic to marvel at the new world of discoveries. E(cid:272)o(cid:374)d: (cid:858)geograph(cid:455) milita(cid:374)t(cid:859) involved more systematic and practical exploration and the political conquest of new territories. Third (cid:858)geograph(cid:455) triu(cid:373)pha(cid:374)t(cid:859) explore new areas of the physical and human world. (cid:1007). He was the beethoven of discoverers: what characterized empiricist geographers? (p. 15) (cid:858)e(cid:373)piri(cid:272)ist(cid:859) geographers o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)ed a(cid:374)d do(cid:272)u(cid:373)e(cid:374)ted the (cid:449)orld arou(cid:374)d the(cid:373). The(cid:455) approached their work from the premise that though conscientious observation and faithful recording the truth of relationships between species and environment would be captured: how would you explain the move from empiricism to positivism? (p. 15) Change from collation of observation to theorization of these observations: how did charles darwin affect this shift? (p. 15)