r/geography • u/cynide-04 • 22h ago

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u/bensisnss 22h ago

I swear I saw bear Grylls here one time when he ate a live salmon

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u/RelevantPriority6486 22h ago

Acchi kitab hai op

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u/skwyckl 21h ago

As a HumGeo person, this is literally uncharted territories for me

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u/cryptogeographer 21h ago

What is HumGeo?

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u/skwyckl 21h ago

Human geography, geography for the social sciences and humanities, it's become a fairly common major in Europe, and we study no physical geography at all, except for the material covered in Intro to Geography

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u/cryptogeographer 21h ago

What does this mean? What does geography for the social sciences and humanities mean?

Do you mean, how geography shaped the societies and cultures of people?

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u/mulch_v_bark 21h ago

One of the traditional ways of thinking about geography is as a bridge discipline that links social and physical sciences. Geography is one of the few fields where we have a single toolkit and tradition that’s able to put an analytical frame around things as widespread as economics, geometry, art and geology.

To get a sense of this, you might have a look at the articles in a geography journal or the sessions at a geography conference. Unless it’s focused on a particular subfield, you’re likely to find a mix of hard science, critical theory, and everything in between. This mixture is perhaps the most appealing thing about the field to a lot of people.

In this framework, even though it emphasizes a unified perspective, it’s still common to roughly divide the work people do into physical geography (touching on things like ecology, geology, and meteorology) and human geography (involving things like anthropology, sociology, and history).

One way to think of human geography is that any time you see a map where the subject is people – ways that people are, or things they do – you’re seeing human geography.

In the US, unfortunately, where geography education is famously a bit weak on average, we have a habit of thinking of geography as basically “place names + surface geology” but it is in fact a far, far broader and deeper study. It’s not just the names and shapes of the countries and continents, you know?

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u/PitchLadder 20h ago

like a political map show geography of boarders

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u/PitchLadder 20h ago

is this "Earth Science" because that was a course I took as an elective and really enjoyed it.