On the Objects of Study of Divisions of Geography divided by their Purposes of Study
The tendency to put the stress, as the purpose of geographical research upon the explanations of human phenomena has become remarkable of late years. Even though the scholars treat these phenomena without losing sight of the mutual relation between earth and man, the tendency is not desirable becaus...
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| Published in | Japanese Journal of Human Geography Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 1 - 9,105 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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The Human Geographical Society of Japan
1951
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| Summary: | The tendency to put the stress, as the purpose of geographical research upon the explanations of human phenomena has become remarkable of late years. Even though the scholars treat these phenomena without losing sight of the mutual relation between earth and man, the tendency is not desirable because we may say that geography has thus gone astray among the domains proper to other human sciences. Where, then, should we find. out object or purpose of geographical studies? Our object is area, that is, to make clear the characteristics of areas. Then our customary division of geography into three-physical geography, human geography and regional geograohy is not fit to our purpose. In order to make the division fit to the object or purpose of our study, we must divide geography into two-physical geography to study natural areas and human geograpby to study cultural areas. |
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| ISSN: | 0018-7216 1883-4086 |
| DOI: | 10.4200/jjhg1948.3.2_1 |