ABSTRACT
Since the first use by Yi-Fu Tuan is the term 'humanistic geography' has become a keyword in geographic thoughts. For Tuan humanistic geography was a perspective that disclosed the complexity and ambiguity of relations between people and place, qualities eclipsed by the positivist perspective of much human geography. Humanistic geographers propose that reasoning in humanistic geography should conserve contact with the world of everyday experience and recognize, if not celebrate, the human potential for creativity. Much humanistic geography concentrates on developing a set of concepts to articulate issues of value and meaning ignored or misconstrued within positivist human geography. Most humanistic geographers forgo a phenomenological search for essences for more existential accounts of experiences of particular people in particular places. Humanistic geographers with stronger sense of the social dimension of human life and knowledge have recognized that values are not a matter of inner feelings nor are all facts as apparently clean as facts like the population or latitude of town.
