Terrain d'affrontement : la relecture d'une controverse scientifique (1902 - 1922) (Doing fieldwork : a scientific controversy in the french geography, 1902-1922)

Résumé En Fr

. - Studying the controversy which opposed geographers not only to sociologists who claimed Durkheim 's legacy but also to an historian such as Lucien Febvre during the first two decades of the 20th century sheds light on the role played by fieldwork — as well as its polysemy as its complexity — in Vidal de La Blache 's founding works which legitimize geography as an academic subject.

. - L'étude de la controverse qui oppose les géographes d'une part aux sociologues durkheimiens et d'autre part à l'historien Lucien Febvre durant les deux premières décennies du XXe siècle permet de comprendre le rôle que joue le terrain (dans sa complexité et sa polysémie) dans l 'œuvre de fondation et de légitimation de la discipline entreprise par Vidal de La Blache.