GEO 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cultural Geography, Historical Geography, Cultural Landscape
13 Apr 2016
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Culture: shared set of meanings that is lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life. Cultural geography: focuses on the way space, place, and landscapes shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space, place and landscape. Ex: popularity of online social networks connects place and people of different culture. Folk culture: seen by specialists as the traditional practices of small groups, especially rural people with a simple lifestyle such as the amish in pa or the roma in europe. Popular culture: viewed by some cultural geographists as the practice and meaning systems produced by large groups of people whose norms and tastes are often heterogenous and change frequently, often in response to commercial products. Cultural landscape: a characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group, with its own practices, preferences, values and aspirations. Those who attempted to understand cross sections or sequences of evolution.
