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Possibilism in cultural geography is the theory that the environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by people. The Possibilist school of thought would believe that desert cultures would have similarities due to living in environments that have similar limitations, but they would also ounder of this school of thought. In Cultural ecologyMarshall Sahlins used this concept in order to develop alternative approaches to the environmental determinism dominant at that time in ecological studies. Cultural geography is a sub-field within human geography. ... Cultural ecology is ecology including humans. ... Marshall Sahlins (born 1930) is a prominent American anthropologist. ... Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism, is the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. ...
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