The Marxist Approach to the Geographical Environment

Matley, Ian M.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1966.tb00546.x

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“…Russian anthropology (or ethnography) was rehabilitated in the 1930s, but only as a segment of the history discipline. It was compelled to avoid methodological links with geography, following a dogmatic pronouncement by Stalin denying any environmental influence on the development of society (Matley 1966).…”

Section: What Happened To 'Applied Anthropology' In the Second World mentioning

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What's in the Name “Applied Anthropology”?: An Encounter with Global Practice

Baba¹,

Hill²

2006

NAPA Bulletin

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This chapter is a reflective essay that explores the contextual influences upon the naming and non‐naming of applied anthropology in different nations and regions of the world. Using a historical and comparative method, the chapter is deliberately designed to present a perspective that does not originate from or end up in the United States. By comparing diverse contexts chronologically, the chapter suggests alternative ways of understanding the reasons why applied and practicing anthropology have evolved so distinctively in different places. The chapter suggests that applied and practicing anthropology, indeed all of anthropology, is inextricably bound to its historical and cultural contexts, meaning that there are important differences in the way the discipline is understood and practiced across different nations and regions. Moreover, historical shifts in context have resulted in important changes in the way the discipline is practiced over time. The chapter also argues that if processes of globalization are indeed transforming the nature of connectedness and boundaries across nations, then there are consequences for the distinctive forms of applied and practicing anthropology observed across nations, with an emphasis on those in the United States. The authors postulate that some of the differences observed between applied and practicing anthropology in the United States and elsewhere are beginning to blur, and that the unique model of applied anthropology that developed in the United States during the last quarter of the 20th century is destined to be transformed into one that is more integrated into the mainstream of the discipline and, indeed, into all of global anthropology.

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Section: What Happened To 'Applied Anthropology' In the Second World mentioning

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What's in the Name “Applied Anthropology”?: An Encounter with Global Practice

Baba¹,

Hill²

2006

NAPA Bulletin

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“…The idea of 'harmony' between the physical and human worlds, for example, a notion which was repeatedly referred to by Berg, was felt to contradict Engels' concept of a dynamic and dialectical universe (Engels, 1940: 206-207). For related reasons physical and human (or as it was now to be termed, economic) geography came to be regarded as two quite separate (albeit interrelated) disciplines, on the grounds that according to Marxism-Leninism the laws of nature and the laws governing social evolution (the latter being the domain of historical materialism) were quite different sets of laws (see [Burke, 1956], [Hooson, 1959], [Hooson, 1962], [Matley, 1966] and [Matley, 1982]). …”

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Totalitarianism and geography: L. S. Berg and the defence of an academic discipline in the age of Stalin

Shaw

Oldfield

2008

Political Geography

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“…This was not merely the product of the regime's economic priorities discussed above but also of its ideological prejudices that particularly came to the fore with the onset of Stalin's cultural revolution at the end of the 1920s. According to Marxist-Leninist dogma, the laws governing the physical world and those governing human society are different sets of laws, and any attempt to unite the two in one conceptual scheme, like Berg's landscape science, was bound to attract criticism (aspects of this issue were examined by David Hooson 1959, 1962, and by I. M. Matley 1966, 1982. As a result of the criticism he received in these years, Berg dropped any discussion of the cultural landscape from subsequent editions of his book (Berg 1937(Berg , 1947.…”

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Landscape Science: A Russian Geographical Tradition

Shaw

Oldfield

2007

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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The Russian geographical tradition of landscape science (landshaftovedenie) is analyzed with particular reference to its initiator, Lev Semenovich Berg (1876-1950. The differences between prevailing Russian and Western concepts of landscape in geography are discussed, and their common origins in German geographical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are delineated. It is argued that the principal differences are accounted for by a number of factors, of which Russia's own distinctive tradition in environmental science deriving from the work of V. V. Dokuchaev (1846Dokuchaev ( -1903, the activities of certain key individuals (such as Berg and C. O. Sauer), and the very different social and political circumstances in different parts of the world appear to be the most significant. At the same time it is noted that neither in Russia nor in the West have geographers succeeded in specifying an agreed and unproblematic understanding of landscape, or more broadly in promoting a common geographical conception of human-environment relationships. In light of such uncertainties, the latter part of the article argues for closer international links between the variant landscape traditions in geography as an important contribution to the quest for sustainability. Key Words: geographies of scientific knowledge, history of geographical and environmental thought, landscape, Russia, the Russian geographical school, sustainability.The greatest and highest charm of natural history-the kernel of natural philosophy [consists in the] existence of an eternal genetic and ever orderly connection between the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms on the one hand, and man, his life and even his spiritual world on the other.-V. V. Dokuchaev 1898 (quoted in Glinka 1927a)

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The Marxist Approach to the Geographical Environment

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What's in the Name “Applied Anthropology”?: An Encounter with Global Practice

What's in the Name “Applied Anthropology”?: An Encounter with Global Practice

Totalitarianism and geography: L. S. Berg and the defence of an academic discipline in the age of Stalin

Landscape Science: A Russian Geographical Tradition

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