вроде так
Explanation:
Я согласен, что "страноведение" = regional geography or even "regional economic geography".
В понятие region тут вполне укладывается это вот "страно-" в русском слове.
Тогда и специалист в этой отрасли будет regional geographer (см. * внизу)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_geography
Regional geography is a study of regions throughout the world in order to understand or define the unique characteristics of a particular region which consists of natural as well as human elements. Attention is paid also to regionalization which covers the proper techniques of space delineation into regions.
Regional geography is also considered as a certain approach to study in geographical sciences (similar to quantitative geography or bunch of critical geographies). This approach to study was prevailing during the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century also known as a period of prevailing regional geography paradigm when regional geography took the central position in geographical sciences. It was later criticised for its descriptiveness and the lack of theory (regional geography as an empirical approach of geographical sciences). Massive criticism was leveled against this approach in the fifties and during the quantitative revolution. Main critics were Kimble[1] and Schaefer[2].
Regional geography paradigm has had impact on many geographical sciences (see regional economic geography or regional geomorphology). Todays regional geography is still thought in some universities as study of the major regions of the world, such as Northern and Latin America, Europe, and Asia and their countries. In addition, the notion of a city-regional approach to the study of geography gained some credence in the mid-1990s after works by people such as Saskia Sassen, it was however heavily criticized by Peter Storper.
Notable *regional geographers* were Alfred Hettner from Germany with his concept of chorology, Vidal de la Blache from France with the possibilism approach (possibilism as a softer notion of environmental determinism) and United States geographer Richard Hartshorne with his areal differentiation concept.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2007-12-21 03:36:29 GMT)
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RE: ethnographer / ethnography - I thought about it but it hardly works here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnography
Ethnography (ἔθνος ethnos = people and γράφειν graphein = writing) is the genre of writing that presents varying degrees of qualitative and quantitative descriptions of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. Ethnography presents the results of a holistic research method founded on the idea that a system's properties cannot necessarily be accurately understood independently of each other. The genre has both formal and historical connections to travel writing and colonial office reports. Several academic traditions, in particular the constructivist and relativist paradigms, employ ethnographic research as a crucial research method. Many cultural anthropologists consider ethnography the essence of the discipline.
Contents [hide]
1 Cultural and social anthropology
2 Other related fields
3 Techniques
4 Ethics
4.1 Classic Virtues
4.2 Technical Skills
4.3 The Ethnographic Self
5 See also
5.1 Notable ethnographers
6 Notes
7 References
8 External links
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Этнография
Этногра́фия (от греч. εθνος — «этнос» (народ) и γραφω — «пишу») — отрасль истории, исследующая культурно-бытовые особенности различных народов мира в их историческом развитии, изучающая проблемы происхождения и культурно-исторических взаимоотношений этих народов, восстанавливающая историю их расселения и передвижения (определение БСЭ 1957 г.)
Основным объектом исследования этнографии являются этносы, что нередко воспринимается как синоним понятия «народ». Древнегреческий термин этнос означал широкое понятие: «народ, племя, толпа». Сами древние греки, отличая самих себя, греков, от варваров, именно последних именовали этносами. В таком понимании отражались реальные культурно-бытовые особенности негреков, а не просто лишь толпа как большая группа людей. Современное определение этноса дал еще в 1923 г. С. М. Широкогоров: «Этнос есть группа людей, говорящих на одном языке, признающих свое единое происхождение, обладающих комплексом обычаев, укладом жизни, хранимых и освященных традицией и отличаемых ею от таковых других групп.»
Впервые термин этнография появился в 1791 г. в в этнографическом альбоме, изданном в Нюрнберге. Иногда этот термин заменяют другим греческим словом этнология, которое буквально означает народоведение, хотя в научных кругах идут споры о различиях между этнологией и этнографией.
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