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Title: Introduction to Cultural Geography


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Introduction to Cultural Geography
  • The five themes of cultural geography from Human
    Mosaic
  • Chapter 1

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THEMES
  • Cultural Region
  • Cultural Diffusion
  • Cultural Ecology
  • Cultural Interaction
  • Cultural Landscape

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Regions
  • Formal Region
  • No distinct boundaries
  • Based on cultural traits or similarities
  • Two or more traits in common
  • Core vs. hinterland trait intensity
  • Example language or religion
  • Functional Region
  • Hard boundaries
  • Usually socio-economic, political trait
  • Example district or media coverage area

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Regions, cont.
  • Vernacular Region
  • Based on cultural or individual perception
  • Boundaries are variable
  • Example The Midwest, Rural vs. Urban, Dixie

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Cultural Diffusion
  • Relocation Diffusion
  • Physical movement of population
  • Response to push-pull factors
  • Expansion Diffusion
  • Three types contagious, heirarchical, stimulus
  • Contagious diffusion
  • spreads just like a cold or a rumor.
  • Snowballing numbers of knowers
  • Effect of modern media

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Cultural Diffusion, cont.
  • Hierarchical diffusion
  • Top-down spread or large to small places
  • Only certain knowers pass along trait
  • Effect of modern media
  • Stimulus diffusion
  • Keeping the trait, but changing the method
  • The Evens and Chuchik tribes of Siberia
  • Rare type
  • Media effect?

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Cultural Diffusion
  • Barriers to diffusion
  • Absorbing or absolute barrier
  • Political orders
  • Religion
  • Permeable barriers
  • Some borders
  • Media driven
  • Time-distance decay
  • Media eliminates this..

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Cultural Ecology
  • Environmental Determinism
  • Possibilism
  • Environmental Perception
  • Natural hazards
  • Organic view
  • Mechanistic (teleological) view
  • Humans as modifiers of the Earth

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Cultural Interaction
  • Cultural Determinism?
  • Sense of Place
  • Power and Ideology

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Cultural Landscape
  • Visible manifestations of culture
  • Settlement pattern
  • Reading landscape
  • Land use/division patterns
  • Architecture
  • What is the quintessential (you fill in)?
  • Knowing your way..
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