GEOG 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Seigneurial System Of New France, Gay Village, Cultural Landscape
13 Jun 2018
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Mapping cultural identities
Challenges/limitations:
Diversity within regions
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Influx of migrants, spread of diversity
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Geographic overlap of cultural groups
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Contested definitions
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Names imposed upon an area
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How we map an area is different of how local people map an area
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Idea of 'planting a flag' to claim 'new' land
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Cultural regions
Indigenous maps: not drawn to be permanent, passed down with stories
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South pacific: stick chart, refraction of ocean waves, intersection of sticks
serve as reference points
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Culture region: "area where certain cultural practices, beliefs, or values are
more or less practiced by the majority of the inhabitant"
Definition & delimitation varies according to criteria, time period,
etc,…
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Inuit mapping represented through regions, languages
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Cultural landscapes
Culture is the factor that changes, and how that affects the environment
around it
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Ordinary landscapes: everyday landscapes created by people
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Symbolic landscape: representation of the values of a culture
Grain mills on the prairies
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Fishing villages on the East coast
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Different landscapes can evoke different emotion
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Landscape modification (damns, irrigation)
Rice field landscapes
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Land use patters
Insight to how people divided up land (eg. Rural Quebec, farms
divided so everyone has access to water, seigneurial system)
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Settlement patters
Suburban landscapes
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Recreational infrastructure
Ethnic landscapes (Chinatown)
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Ottawa's "gaybourhood"
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Toponyms
Geographic communication
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Evidence about cultural history
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Window into how people conceptualize space
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Names of rivers, mountains, roads, etc…
Named after people (founder, hero, royalty)
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Features/characteristics of landscape (Montreal, Riverside,
Overbrook)
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Named after other places (European cities)
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Reveals cultural history
Indigenous names (Ottawa, Kanata, Toronto)
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Survives long after original inhabitant have disappeared
French in Mississippi valley
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Spanish in New Mexico, California
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Dutch in New York
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Religious buildings, monuments
Commemorative landscapes (statues)
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political, power landscapes (parliament hill)
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Religious (churches, mosque)
Built communities around religious buildings
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Places
Defined by how people have shaped it over time
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Space: volume and area
Our life revolves around space and time
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Organized, inhabited space, a meaningful location
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How we organize the world
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Bounded space, limitations/forms (physical or imagined)
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Open to influences from both inside and out, open to different
interpretations
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House vs home
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Culture, Landscape and Places
Monday, November 27, 2017
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