{"title":"A Cartographic Exercise","authors":"A. Eldridge","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2107356","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In his short piece “The Study of Geography” Franz Boas distinguishes between a naturalist disposition arising “from the logical and aesthetical demands of the human mind,” and what he terms “cosmography” which “has its source in the personal feeling of man toward the world, towards the phenomena surrounding him.” In order to exegete this latter analytic sensibility, the anthropologist marshals the words of Goethe:","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":"24 1","pages":"128 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Political Theology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2107356","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In his short piece “The Study of Geography” Franz Boas distinguishes between a naturalist disposition arising “from the logical and aesthetical demands of the human mind,” and what he terms “cosmography” which “has its source in the personal feeling of man toward the world, towards the phenomena surrounding him.” In order to exegete this latter analytic sensibility, the anthropologist marshals the words of Goethe: