Abstract

Carl Sauer has received a great deal of attention by those geographers who respect and admire him as one of the great contributors to modern American geography, and by a younger generation who believe that too much emphasis on Sauer and his form of cultural geography has restricted the growth and development of this particular subfield. Rather than focusing on this dichotomy, or debating the relative merits of each side, it is more important to explore the ways in which Sauer developed as a geographer. From such an analysis perhaps meaningful lessons can be derived about where we have been as a discipline and how we may proceed in the future.

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