The Hunting of the Snark · The Medicine Chest

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The Hunting of the Snark

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Description

"The Hunting of the Snark offers a timely caution for geographical investigation. The danger, both academic and pragmatic, of enslavement to static conceptual categories, rigid classifications, and established methodological procedures is simply that they tend to rule out the possibility of experiencing that insight and understanding which can be neither discovered, formulated nor communicated by adherence to traditional investigative methdologies. This is not to advocate an un-methodical and irrational geographical philosophy, but rather to suggest that there may be conditions under which slavish adherence to a tried and tested methodology may fail to provide reliable guidance in our search for understanding. A lack of commitment to open-ended investigation could mean that, because our methods are inappropriate, our explorations will forever remain, so to speak, 'snarked' ".

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_Carroll_-_Henry_Holiday_-_Hunting_of_the_Snark_-_Plate_4.jpg

Creator

D.N. Livingstone See all items with this value

R.T. Harrison See all items with this value

Date Created

1981

Source

Livingstone, D. N & Harrison, R.T. 1981. Hunting the Snark: Perspectives on Geographical Investigation. Geografiska annaler. Series B, Human geography. 63 (1): 69–72.

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Academic paper

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