ABSTRACT
There have been longstanding linkages between geography and the humanities that go back at least to the early writings of Carl Sauer and his focus on cultural landscapes, history, and archaeology. 1 Perhaps most prominent of these traditions has been in the subfield of historical geography and its exploration of geographies of the past through the conjunction of history and human geography. 2 Despite the changing centrality of historical geography within geography since the 1970s, the historic links to the humanities have remained important to the work of historical geographers. In addition to the lynchpin role of historical geography, the traditions, methodologies, and domain areas of geography have also touched the humanities in many other ways and especially in archaeology, literature, history, and religion. 3 These encounters reflect more the tendency of geography and geographers to cross disciplinary boundaries rather than any underlying symbiotic melding of the disciplines. Thus mapping applications per se have provided a focal point of exchange and dialog between geography and related disciplines, but these interfaces have not necessarily provided corollary substantive theoretical developments.
