Principles of Geography GEO 100

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Principles of GeographyGEO 100

• Chapter 7 - Cultural Geography
• St. Charles Community College
• Ellen Wilson

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Cultural Trait Origins

• Cultural Regions
• Landscapes
• Cultural Hearths

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Cultural Trait Distribution
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Environmental Determinism
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Cultural Categories

• Ideological
• Mentifacts
• Technological
• Artifacts
• Sociological
• Sociofacts

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Process of Change

• Acculturation
• Assimilation
• NPR-Mexican Acculturation

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Process of Change (cont)

• Charter Culture
• Ethnic Islands/Clusters
• Multi-ethnic regions
• New comers

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Language

• Are languages randomly distributed over the
  surface of the earth?

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Languages (cont)
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What language indicates

• Not equal exchange
• Create words for concepts that are important to
  culture
• If no wordnot important
• Wilderness
• If word is accepted from anotherthat concept has
  been incorporated into group

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Language (cont)

• Identifies previous interactions
• Mansion Taco
• Web site to find origin of words

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Language (cont)

• Can anticipate cultural traits based on language
  usage
• Businessman
• NPR-In other words

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Toponyms
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Language Change
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English Development (cont)
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English Development
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English Development (cont)
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Language forms

• Standard
• Pidgin/Creole
• Dialects
• Social
• Geographic
• American Tongues video - movie

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US Dialects

• Dialects Web site

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Dialects
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Dialects (cont)
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Explanation of distribution

• Migration
• Conquest
• Power
• Economics
• With change of language comes change of thought

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Religion

• Are religions randomly distributed over the
  earth?

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Impact on cultural behavior

• Daily/weekly/annual schedules
• What is todays date?
• Dress
• Food consumption and growth
• Urban planning/ Architecture

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Mapping Religion

• Hard to distinguish who counts?
• Distribution will depend on religion
• Universalizing
• Ethnic
• Tribal

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Maps of US religions
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Explanation of distribution(similar to language)

• Migration
• Conquest
• Power
• Economics
• With change of religion comes change of thought
  and action

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Judaism

• Ethnic or Universalizing
• Impact of ancestor requirement

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Christianity

• Ethnic or Universalizing?
• Schisms impact on global distribution

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Islam

• Ethnic or Universalizing?
• Leadership requirements impact on distribution

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Hinduism

• Ethnic or Universalizing?
• Impact of caste system on distribution

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Buddhism

• Ethnic or Universalizing?
• Impact of different versions over time

Monk/Nun
Philosophy
Meditation
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• Questions??