Anthropology of space. Considerations from classical geography to cultural geography

Abstract

Currently, it’s been developed a field of anthropology that focus in the study of space, the present contribution at the theory anthropology, what base in the geography studies related to sociology and anthropology, at the same time that identifying different authors proposals, in the classic tradition German and French, who have pointed out that the theoretical reflection between the space and the society, retaken the important contributions of the Posibilista school. Of Vidal de la Blanche in France, the anthropogeography of Ratzel, urban sociology R. Park, H. Lefebvre and others, who sought to explain the spatial behavior of modern societies. For which the term anthropogenic functional space obtained based on the theoretical reconstruction of notions such as space, landscape, territory, region and place, from a social-cultural perspective is proposed.

Keywords

• antropología del espacio
• espacio
• espacio urbano: lugar
• territorio