GEOG 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Area, Cultural Landscape, Nature Reserve

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1020
• Professor: Paul Williams

Document Summary

Culture encompasses a way of life, the values, beliefs, customs, behaviours and other traits passed down from generation to generation. Culture and cultural values, ideals, needs, etc. can be found in many different forms/media: e. g. architecture, dress, artwork, graffiti, music, language, sport, maps! Materialised symbolic expressions of cultural identity. Cultural region = an area where certain cultural practices, beliefs, or values are more or less practiced by the majority of the inhabitants. May or may not follow political boundaries. Increased pace of cultural change due to globalization. A characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group with its own practices, preferences, values, and aspirations and a natural environment: identifiable, material, manifested in physical form, interactive (two-way) Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape in the result with the introduction of a different culture, a rejuvenation of the cultural landscape sets in. carl otwin sauer.