Zemlevedenie

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Zemlevedenie

(Geography), a scientific collection (up to 1939, a journal) dealing with general problems of physical geography, geomorphology, the study of countries, and the history of geography. It was founded in 1894 by D. N. Anuchin as the journal of the geographical division of the Society of Amateurs of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography at Moscow University. Zemlevedenie appeared as a periodical publication from 1918 through 1921, with interruptions, and from 1923 to 1939. Since 1940 it has been published by the Moscow Society of Naturalists (New Series). By 1972, ten volumes had appeared.

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Conceptions of ethnography in Russia continued to be shaped well into the 1880s by the views of the early 19th-century German geographers Alexander von Humboldt and Karl Ritter, who posited the close interdependence between human culture and the surrounding environment and advocated an all-encompassing "earth science" (Erdkunde, zemlevedenie) examining humanity in the context of its interactions with the natural world.

Nikolai Kharuzin and the quest for a universal human science: anthropological evolutionism and the Russian ethnographic tradition, 1885-1900