Human Geography


Human geography is concerned with the physical distribution of humankind on the earth, in various regions of the world. These regions include Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South American, and Australia/Oceania. Much of the detail associated with these regions, such as their population, natural resources, and other geographical problems will be included in the application of other areas of anthropology, as these are themselves better developed. Subdivisions of these various regions will also be mentioned as they are developed.	Sapience Home Site Map About Sapience Anthropology Europe Asia Africa North America South America Oceania

Human geography is concerned with the physical distribution of humankind on the earth, in various regions of the world. These regions include Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South American, and Australia/Oceania.

Much of the detail associated with these regions, such as their population, natural resources, and other geographical problems will be included in the application of other areas of anthropology, as these are themselves better developed. Subdivisions of these various regions will also be mentioned as they are developed.

Anthropology

Asia

Asia includes regions of Southwest Asia, (The Middle East), South Asia (India), East Asia (China), Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and North Asia (Siberia)

Europe

European geography so far includes the Balkan Peninsula, Italian peninsula, Northwest European geography, Island Europe, Central European geography, Eastern European geography, and Scandinavian geography

Africa

African geography so far includes North African geography, Eastern African geograpy, and Western African geography

North America

North American geography includes Northern North America (principally Canada and Alaska), Middle North America (most of the United States), and Southern North America (Mexican, Central American, and Caribbean).

South America

South American geography has not yet been subdivided on this site.

Oceania

Oceanic geography, which includes Australian, Pacific, and Antarctic has not yet been subdivided on this site.


History The history of human geography and the exploration and discovery of the world in prehistory, antiquity, and classical and medieval times can be considered. Much of it is modern. The future can also be considered.	Links to other sources: Wikipedia - Human Geography
Sociology Various peoples have contributed to it. Some of these contributions can be identified with particular nations, for instance Canada, Afghanistan, Uganda, Nepal, Peru, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Malaysia, North Korea, Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, Syria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, and Malawi. A great deal of knowledge of human geography is the product of Western civilization. Poland is significant. Anglic peoples can be connected. The United Kingdom is especially important and Anglo-American peoples including those of the United States have contributed substantially to this. Latin peoples including those of Spain have contributed. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples including those of France can be connected.Hispanic peoples including those of Argentina can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombia can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany can be connected. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia and Ukraine have contributed. Asiatic peoples including Algeria have been important, but not as important as Western civilization. Middle Eastern peoples produced geographers, especially in the medieval period, although so far I lack details on the specific contributions of Morocco North African, Arabian, or Levantine peoples. Turkey can be connected. Egypt can be connected. Persian peoples including those of Iran can be connected. South Asian peoples such as those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered. Oriental peoples including those of China, Japan, and South Korea can be considered. Southeast Asian peoples including those of Burma can be considered. The Southeast Asian Mainland including nations such as Vietnam and Thailand can be connected. Southeast Asian archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected. African peoples such as those of Kenya have some contribution to make. East African peoples including those of Tanzania can be connected. Northern East African peoples inlcuding those of Ethiopia can be connected. Interior East African peoples including those of Sudan can be connected. West African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected. Southern African peoples including those of South Africa can be connected. Central African peoples including those of Congo (DR) can be connected. American Indian peoples such as those found in Argentina have contributed a bit less. Middle American Indian peoples including those of Mexico can possibly be considered. Southwest American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indians such as those found in Colombia have made few notable contributions to human geography. Amazonian peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. North American Indians such as those found in the United States have made fairly minimal connections to human geography. Eastern North American Indian peoples and Western North American Indian peoples can be considered. Communities Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City have contributed to it. Social structure and change Social change Particular changes The agricultural revolution can be connected. The Agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected. Social change factors including demographic change and natural change can be connected. Institutional change can be connected. Cultural change can be connected. Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered. Social types Industrial society can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected. Social structure Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected. Institutions Religion Particular religions including pagan religion, Asiatic religion, Abrahamic religion, and secularism also have some connection to geography. Abrahamic religion including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be connected. Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured religion can be connected. Religious practice can be connected. Religious belief also has some connection. Government Particular govenments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activities including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected. Economics Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical services, building and construction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including consumption, distribution and excange, and production can be connected. Education Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. Families Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting may have connections. Marriage may be connected. Culture Behavioral culture Cultural events including holidays, disasters, gatherings, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupation, transportation occupations, building occupations, and agriculture can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, dress customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected. Conceptual culture Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and math foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and lingustics can be connected. Material culture including buildings and industrial technology may be useful. Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, toys, and medicines can be connected. Communication technology including electronic, graphic, and written communication can be connected. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be connected. Clothing including adorment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared, processed and preserved, and raw foodstuffs can be connected. Other Anthropology Particular groups can be connected. It also connects to human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of humans on the environment. It also depends heavily on physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion. Human geography depends heavily on demography, including birth and fertility, migration, morbidity and mortality, population structure, and population change. There are strong connections with social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and group types. Personal studies Particular biographies are all significant. Important contributors to human geography include: Columbus Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, mental disorders, developmental psychology, personality, and social psychology are significant. Studies of the human body including body systems and function, disease and life cycle, and the human form may be useful. Science Biology is also useful. Biohistory including principally the Cenozoic period is also useful. Ecology including behavioral ecology, Population ecology, community ecology, system ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogeography is also vital to human geography. Systematics including studies of microbes, protists, plants, fungi, and animals is useful to human geography. Organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology do not seem to be directly useful. Earth science including geology is fundamental to human geography. Geohistory including principally the Cenozoic period is also useful to human geography. Physical geography including terrestrial geography, oceanic geography, and mapping is significant. Atmospheric science including atmospheric structure, meteorology, and climatology will be useful. Hydrospheric science including oceanography, glaciology, gronwater, and freshwater is useful. Astronomy is useful, not so much for cosmology, galactic astronomy, or stellar astronomy, but promarily for solar system astronomy. Chemistry and physics are indirectly connected.

History

The history of human geography and the exploration and discovery of the world in prehistory, antiquity, and classical and medieval times can be considered. Much of it is modern. The future can also be considered.

Links to other sources:

Wikipedia - Human Geography

Sociology

Various peoples have contributed to it. Some of these contributions can be identified with particular nations, for instance Canada, Afghanistan, Uganda, Nepal, Peru, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Malaysia, North Korea, Ghana, Yemen, Taiwan, Romania, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Australia, Madagascar, Syria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Netherlands, Chile, Kazakhstan, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, and Malawi.

A great deal of knowledge of human geography is the product of Western civilization. Poland is significant. Anglic peoples can be connected. The United Kingdom is especially important and Anglo-American peoples including those of the United States have contributed substantially to this. Latin peoples including those of Spain have contributed. Italic peoples including those of Italy can be connected. French peoples including those of France can be connected.Hispanic peoples including those of Argentina can be connected. Hispanic Mexican American peoples including those of Mexico can be connected. Hispanic Colombian American peoples including those of Colombia can be connected. Lusitanic peoples including those of Brazil can be connected. Germanic peoples including those of Germany can be connected. Northeast European peoples such as those of Russia and Ukraine have contributed.

Asiatic peoples including Algeria have been important, but not as important as Western civilization. Middle Eastern peoples produced geographers, especially in the medieval period, although so far I lack details on the specific contributions of Morocco North African, Arabian, or Levantine peoples. Turkey can be connected. Egypt can be connected. Persian peoples including those of Iran can be connected. South Asian peoples such as those of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh can be considered. Oriental peoples including those of China, Japan, and South Korea can be considered. Southeast Asian peoples including those of Burma can be considered. The Southeast Asian Mainland including nations such as Vietnam and Thailand can be connected. Southeast Asian archipelagoes including Indonesia and the Philippines can be connected.

African peoples such as those of Kenya have some contribution to make. East African peoples including those of Tanzania can be connected. Northern East African peoples inlcuding those of Ethiopia can be connected. Interior East African peoples including those of Sudan can be connected. West African peoples including those of Nigeria can be connected. Southern African peoples including those of South Africa can be connected. Central African peoples including those of Congo (DR) can be connected.

American Indian peoples such as those found in Argentina have contributed a bit less. Middle American Indian peoples including those of Mexico can possibly be considered. Southwest American Indian peoples such as those of the southwestern United States can be connected. South American Indians such as those found in Colombia have made few notable contributions to human geography. Amazonian peoples such as those of Brazil can be connected. North American Indians such as those found in the United States have made fairly minimal connections to human geography. Eastern North American Indian peoples and Western North American Indian peoples can be considered.

Communities

Communities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Mexico City, and New York City have contributed to it.

Social structure and change

Social change

Particular changes

The agricultural revolution can be connected. The Agrarian revolution including bronze age movements, early iron age movements, late iron age movements, and modernization can be connected. The industrial revolution including the early industrial revolution, middle industrial revolution, and late industrial revolution can be connected.

Social change factors including demographic change and natural change can be connected. Institutional change can be connected. Cultural change can be connected.

Social change processes including innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be considered.

Social types

Industrial society can be connected. Agrarian societies can be connected. Horticultural societies can be connected. Hunting and gathering societies can be connected.

Social structure

Community and regional structure can be connected. Class structure can be connected. Institutional structure can be connected. Cultural structure can be connected. Anthropological structure can be connected.

Institutions

Religion

Particular religions including pagan religion, Asiatic religion, Abrahamic religion, and secularism also have some connection to geography. Abrahamic religion including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can be connected. Religious organization including highly structured, fragmented, and loosely structured religion can be connected. Religious practice can be connected. Religious belief also has some connection.

Government

Particular govenments including international government, national government, and local government can be connected. Government activities including state relations, administration, and succession can be connected. Government structure including government forms, heads of state, executive systems, legislative systems, judicial systems, and political parties and interest groups can be connected. Law including international law, Western law, Asiatic law, and tribal law can be connected.

Economics

Economic systems including economic system behavior, economic system types, networks, and firms can be connected. Industries including commercial and financial, communication, transportation, social and medical services, building and construction, and agriculture can be connected. Economic activities including consumption, distribution and excange, and production can be connected.

Education

Schools including higher education, secondary education, and primary education can be connected. Educational organization including administration, faculty, students, and course material can be connected. Cultural institutions including performance venues, libraries, and museums can be connected. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

Families

Particular families can be connected. Kinship can be connected. Parenting may have connections. Marriage may be connected.

Culture

Behavioral culture

Cultural events including holidays, disasters, gatherings, and other events can be connected. Recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music can be connected. Occupations including service occupations, industrial occupations, communications occupation, transportation occupations, building occupations, and agriculture can be connected. Customs including institutional customs, social interaction customs, dress customs, living and dwelling customs, and vital customs can be connected.

Conceptual culture

Philosophy including philosophical schools and doctrines, special topics, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and logic can be connected. Applied science including applied social science, accounting, information science, medical science, navigation, engineering science, and measurement can be connected. Mathematics including statistics, analysis, geometry, algebra, arithmetic, and math foundations can be connected. Literature including particular works, literary types and genres, literary forms, and oral tradition can be connected. Graphic arts including animation, photography, printmaking, painting, and drawing can be connected. Language including languages of the world, writing, and lingustics can be connected.

Material culture including buildings and industrial technology may be useful. Miscellaneous artifacts including sculpture, musical instruments, toys, and medicines can be connected. Communication technology including electronic, graphic, and written communication can be connected. Transportation technology including space transportation, air transportation, water transportation, land transportation, and packaging can be connected. Clothing including adorment, garments, and textiles can be connected. Foodstuffs including prepared, processed and preserved, and raw foodstuffs can be connected.

Other Anthropology

Particular groups can be connected. It also connects to human ecology including effects of the environment on people, relations with other life, and effects of humans on the environment. It also depends heavily on physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion. Human geography depends heavily on demography, including birth and fertility, migration, morbidity and mortality, population structure, and population change. There are strong connections with social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and group types.

Personal studies

Particular biographies are all significant. Important contributors to human geography include:

Columbus

Psychology including behavioral elements, mind, behavior patterns, mental disorders, developmental psychology, personality, and social psychology are significant. Studies of the human body including body systems and function, disease and life cycle, and the human form may be useful.

Science

Biology is also useful. Biohistory including principally the Cenozoic period is also useful. Ecology including behavioral ecology, Population ecology, community ecology, system ecology, evolution, ecosystems, and biogeography is also vital to human geography. Systematics including studies of microbes, protists, plants, fungi, and animals is useful to human geography. Organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology do not seem to be directly useful.

Earth science including geology is fundamental to human geography. Geohistory including principally the Cenozoic period is also useful to human geography. Physical geography including terrestrial geography, oceanic geography, and mapping is significant. Atmospheric science including atmospheric structure, meteorology, and climatology will be useful. Hydrospheric science including oceanography, glaciology, gronwater, and freshwater is useful.

Astronomy is useful, not so much for cosmology, galactic astronomy, or stellar astronomy, but promarily for solar system astronomy. Chemistry and physics are indirectly connected.

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