The evolution of the theory of the interrelationship between landscape and ethnos in scientific and geographical research

Abstract

The ethnic problems of the interaction between nature and society are not sufficiently updated and studied. The scientific statements made by well-known scientists and necessary for determining the parameters of the influence of the geographical environment on the stereotype of human behavior, the economy profile, the forms of life, the material and spiritual culture that determine the distinctive features of ethnic groups, as well as the inverse degree of impact on the natural environment of public communities, depending on their ethnicity are often disregarded and not used in the applied context. Thus, the ideas about the relations between ethnic communities and natural environment, the peculiarities of peoples’ life support in natural and socio-cultural conditions, the natural environment usage by ethnic groups and their impact on it, the biological and socio-cultural adaptation of various peoples to the landscapes that host them, trigger a comprehensive generalization and analysis. The article’s subject is a retrospective of the evolution of scientific and geographical ideas about the relation between landscape and ethnos. In this regard, the article’s purpose is an analytical assessment of conceptual and theoretical approaches to the problem of interrelationships in the landscape-ethnos system, clarification, concretization, axiological interpretation of the most significant provisions and critical remarks of theoretical and conceptual-terminological ideas related to nature management ethno-geographic aspects and ethnic groups interaction with the natural environment.