A preliminary study on "Hahn's theory of agricultural development"
1996
Sato, T. (Tottori Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture)
In this paper, to understand systematically the theory of agricultural development presented by Hahn who was a German agricultural geographer and ethnologist, we remarked an outlines of Hahn's theory by using the present results of its researches in Japan and tried to search out the further subjects for a deep study of Hahn's theory. The results of this study were as follows: firstly, on agricultural geography Hahn classified the world agricultural forms into six types such as hunting and fishing, hoe-, garden- and plough-culture, nomadism and plantation, and on the base of these forms, determined the order of agricultural development; secondly, in ordering the agricultural development, he adopted the methods as a complex of culture - for example, he gave the elements of calendar, car, plough, corn, domestication of cattle and bullock and so on a s the factors affecting the development of plough-culture and make clear their history of origin from his own viewpoints of religion; and thirdly, he proposed the idea of symbiosis between a human being and nature. But it was for us to have better understandings of the ordering of agricultural development by Hahn and to make clear causal relation between complexes factors of culture and so on
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