Speciation, region, progress and cultural politics in the anthropogeography of Frederic Ratzel

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  • Nilson Cortez Crocia BARROS UFP

Abstract

The work presents discussions that were running inside biology and anthropology in the second half of the 19 century as far as those discussions exerted influence upon the development of Ratzel’s anthropogeography. Ratzel’s anthropogeography is defined as an interpretative proposal of the role exerted by environment, diffusion and adaptation on the evolutionary cultural possibilities of human populations. Particular attention is directed at the ideas of mechanism of speciation (biology) and progress and cultural evolution (anthropology/history); influences from the historical and holistic German philosophy upon Ratzel’s proposal are also indicated. Key words: Ratzel; anthropogeography; history of geography.

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2008-07-16

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Vol. 31 No. 3 (2006)

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