Practice question · Multiple choice
Why did Sauer’s formulation — culture the agent, nature the medium — displace environmental determinism?
Hints
- Three terms: agent, medium, result.
- Which one is the culture?
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C. Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium
Why
Agent, medium, result, and the ordering is a deliberate refusal of determinism. Nature supplies the material; culture does the acting.
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