Author: Ian CookPublisher:
ISBN: 9781529748680
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Human geography's signature concepts, including place, space, distance, scale, nature, and landscape, have been researched via ethnographic methods since ancient times. The discipline's exploration, mapping, and descriptive traditions were vital to the research and administration of European empires from the 15th century onwards. By the turn of the 21st century, qualitative research had become the foundation of human geographical enquiry, and innovative forms of ethnographic practice were flourishing. Leading up to this, many of the discipline's concerns, theories, and approaches had overlapped with other disciplinary traditions, and geographical writing has contributed to, and benefitted from, a spatial turn across the humanities and social sciences. This entry fleshes out this story through four episodes of ethnographic/geographic innovation that characterise and add to fascinating and important interdisciplinary ...