Theoretical Study of Ethnogeography

This book conducts a systematic research on the basic theoretical system of ethnogeography, area differentiation and spatial changes of ethnic community, national ecological outlook on human-land relations, geographical distribution of various nationalities in the world, and historical geographical background of regional ethnic composition. From the perspective of the development of the discipline, through comprehensive review of the basic materials, development process, and research status of ethnogeography, the book reveals the basic theoretical issues of the basic concepts, subject attributes, research objects, contents and methods of ethnogeography and initially sets up the basic framework for the study of ethnogeography.

Yanbo Guan was born in June 1967 in Xuanwei, Yunnan Province. He graduated from the Department of History of Yunnan University in 1989 and was assigned to the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the same year. From March 2002 to March 2003, he was a visiting scholar in the International Development Department of Nagoya University, Japan. In July 2004, he received a doctor of history from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The main research direction is Chinese national history, national historical geography, especially the study of social history and culture of ethnic groups in southern China.