1. UNIT 3: Cultural Geo

2. Culture….. Is learned Diffuses (spreads)

3. Cultural traits: e xpressions of culture beliefs clothes, food “building blocks” of culture Culture Complex Masai of Kenya: centered on cattle U.S. football: sports culture

4. Cultural Region Areas sharing distinct cultural traits –Political, Religion

5. Folk Culture Folk Culture: tradition practices - small, homogeneous, rural group

6. Terraced Rice Fields, Thailand Hogan, AZ yurt, Mongolia Folk Culture and the Land

8. Hog Production and Food Cultures THE “NO PORK ZONE”

9. North American Folk Culture Regions

10. American house types: New England Mid-Atlantic Southern Tidewater

12. Folk Housing in North America

13. Amish: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana

14. Old Order Amish

15. Hutterite Colonies in North America

16. Runners of the NYC Marathon run through Williamsburg, (Brooklyn), NY

17. Popular Culture: wide-ranging traits across a group of heterogeneous people

18. Popular Culture Clothing: Jeans…

19. Diffusion of TV, 1954–1999 Television has diffused widely since the 1950s, but some areas still have low numbers of TVs per population.

20. Pop Culture Effects on Landscape: - sameness; “placelessness”

21. Beijing, China Palm Springs, CA

22. The Globalization of Culture? Often transforms folk Culture – or preserves for tourism Global Media

23. Marlboro Man in Egypt…

24. How do cultural traits diffuse? Hearth: the point of origin of a cultural trait. Contagious diffusion Hierarchical diffusion

25. Material Culture art, houses, clothing, food Nonmaterial Culture beliefs, music, oral traditions

26. Little Sweden (Lindsborg, Kansas): Is the Swedish Dala horse part of material or nonmaterial culture?

27. neolocalism: reinvigorating in response to the “modern” Why define it as a Swedish place?

28. How Do Cultures Develop? cultural hearth: point of diffusion of a cultural group (the “cradle” of any culture)

29. Cultural Change takes place in two ways: --innovation & diffusion Acculturation: culture changed by another Assimilation: one cultures more changed by another

30. With Distance Decay, diffusion decreases as distance from hearth increases. With Time-Space Compression, the likelihood of diffusion depends technology

31. Cultural Landscape The visible human imprint on the landscape.

32. Bali, Indonesia

34. Factors that Affect Diffusion Distance Pop. Density Technological communication

35. Language: - organized system of spoken words Dialect: regional differences Migration & Isolation

36. Language & Cultural Identity

39. Indo-European Family (1/2 of World) Main Branches: Germanic - Dutch, German Romance - Spanish, French Baltic-Slavic - Russian Indo-Iranian - Hindu, Bengali

40. Language & Conflict Belgium: Flanders (Flemish language) Wallonia (French language)

41. Nigeria 400 different languages…

42. Ethnolinguistic Fragmentation: the Caucasus

43. Lingua franca: a language widely spoken (Ex: English as global business language) Pidgin language: combination of two or more languages into a simplified vocab (for trade; Ex: Swahili) Creole language: a pidgin that has become an official language “No eat da candy, Bruddah, it's pilau. Da thing wen fall on da ground.”

44. TOPONYM: a place name Devil’s Tower, WYBadwater, Death Valley Mt Cook, New Zealand Cook Islands, Polynesia

46. Religion: group beliefs (rituals, religious landscapes) Universalizing Religions: –Christianity –Islam –Buddhism Ethnic Religions: –Judaism –Hinduism