"Culture geography is a subfield within human geography."
The study of cultural norms and how they shape human behavior and interactions.
"Cultural geography emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century."
"This was led by the 'father of cultural geography' Carl O. Sauer of the University of California, Berkeley."
"As a result, cultural geography was long dominated by American writers."
"Geographers drawing on this tradition see cultures and societies as developing out of their local landscapes but also shaping those landscapes."
"This interaction between the natural landscape and humans creates the cultural landscape."
"...drawn from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, literary theory, and feminism."
"No single definition of culture dominates within cultural geography."
"...geographers wholeheartedly reject theories that treat culture as if it took place 'on the head of a pin'."
"Though the first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo..."
"Rather than studying pre-determined regions based upon environmental classifications, cultural geography became interested in cultural landscapes."
"...more nuanced and complex concepts of culture, drawn from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, literary theory, and feminism."
"cultures and societies as developing out of their local landscapes but also shaping those landscapes."
"...cultural geography became interested in cultural landscapes."
"This interaction between the natural landscape and humans creates the cultural landscape."
"geographers wholeheartedly reject theories that treat culture as if it took place 'on the head of a pin'."
"No single definition of culture dominates within cultural geography."
"As a result, cultural geography was long dominated by American writers."
"But has been augmented over the past forty years with more nuanced and complex concepts of culture..."
"...ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo."