cultural geography

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comparison with regional geography

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    In geography: Geography in the United States

    …was an approach—widely known as cultural geography—associated with Carl Sauer (1889–1975), a University of Chicago geography graduate, and the associates and students whom he led at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1923 to 1957. Sauer was also strongly influenced by the Germans, but he emphasized the study of landscape…

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human geography disciplines

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    In geography: Human geography

    In its original manifestations, cultural geography had close links with anthropology, especially in the work of Sauer’s Berkeley school. This has been superseded by a wider appreciation of the interrelationships among people and societies as well as between people and their environments. Cultures are sets of beliefs transmitted in…

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