ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКОЕ МЫШЛЕНИЕ, КУЛЬТУРНАЯ ГЕОГРАФИЯ И ДИКАЯ ПРИРОДА, "Известия Российской академии наук. Серия географическая"

Abstract

Humanities appears now in the “endowed” human being significant and meaningful knowledge as the appropriate meaning of the content of reality. The embodiment of the world picture occurs in multivalued association of signs, symbols, representations and images, where the geography are the only “embedded” in this kind of quickly current processes. Nature was never to humans, it always exists “in itself” and “for itself”, and the man validly “read” and convey its meaning turns out to be possible discourse, while its understanding borders their own limitations of knowledge. In this paper the author’s position are considering via appropriate mapping and interpretation of the opposing “semantic poles” – a wilderness and cultural landscape. In contrast, dichotomous theoretical manifestation of this kind concluded the transcendental meaning of sensory associations (imagery) and rational (logical) cognitive styles of geographical thinking. The concept of the existence the wilderness continuum demonstrates the existing still areas of traditional nature use of indigenous peoples of the Asian part of Russia and those, which modified by anthropogenic development within territory of Siberia.