GEOG 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cultural Geography, Relate, List Of National Animals
What is cultural geography
Making sense of people and the places they occupy
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How space, place, and landscape shake culture and vice versa
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Modification of landscapes
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Language regions
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Geography of minorities
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Creation of locations with important cultural meanings
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Cultural geographers investigate how we…:
Represent ourselves to others
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distinguish ourselves from others
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Relate to those of our own kind
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Exercise dominance over others
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How others represent themselves
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Who defines cultural differences
Cultural dress - who makes decisions regarding them?
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Questions regarding culture:
Where are you from?
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What is your cultural background?
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What is culture
Shared set of meanings that are lived through the material and symbolic
practices of everyday life
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Encompasses a way of life, beliefs, customs, behaviours, and other traits
passed down from generation to generation
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Songs, poetry, traditions
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Shape people's action and their production of material artifacts (landscape,
built environment)
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Socially defined/interpreted
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Expressed in the lives of social groups who articulate, express, and challenge
these set of ideas and values which are themselves temporally and spatially
specific
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Cultural trait:
Cultural costume
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Culture in a modern world
Our place in the world
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Interaction with others
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Sense of identity and belonging
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How do we define ourselves?
Age
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Gender
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Job
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Sexual orientation
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Relationships
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Religion
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Race
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Different identity depeunding on who we are talking to
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Geographies of language
Core element of cultural identity
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Unifying force
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Specific to certain places
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Dialect, mother tongue, official language, lingua franca, language family
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Spread, movement of languages
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Assimilation of culture through language
Welsh, indigenous Canadians
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Scots Gaelic - spoken in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
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At least 5,000 living languages
Many dying languages
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Only 30 are spoken by over
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Most spoken languages in the world
Mandarin
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Hindi
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Spanish
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English
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Arabic
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Portuguese
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Bengali
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Russian
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Japanese
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Punjabi
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Canada's official languages
English 58%, French 22%
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Most common immigrant languages in Canada
1971: Italian German, Ukrainian
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2011: Chinese languages, Punjabi, Spanish
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Change in immigration patterns
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Cultural representation
Architecture, dress, artwork, graffiti, music, language, sport
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Materialised: symbolic expression of cultural traits
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Certain cultural trains and symbols become prominent and
adopted/promoted/stereotyped
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Symbolism on money
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Canada's national symbol: Maple leaf
National sport: Hockey and lacrosse
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National tree:
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National animal: Beaver, Canadian horse
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National bird: Grey jay
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Making our cultural representation accessible to others outside our system:
translation, interpretation through codes, social conventions, ways of
knowing
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Culture representation often are:
Contested/misinterpreted
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Defined by inter-relationships with other cultural representations
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Co-opted by others
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Expressed in place and upon the landscape, expression of belonging,
brute identity
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Geography and identity
Cultural geography: spatial interactions between different cultural
expressions
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Multiple perceptions
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Belonging to a group, community, collective
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"Imagined communities"
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Mapping Cultural Identities
Monday, November 20, 2017
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Document Summary
Making sense of people and the places they occupy. How space, place, and landscape shake culture and vice versa. Represent ourselves to others distinguish ourselves from others. Shared set of meanings that are lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life. Encompasses a way of life, beliefs, customs, behaviours, and other traits passed down from generation to generation. Shape people"s action and their production of material artifacts (landscape, built environment) Expressed in the lives of social groups who articulate, express, and challenge these set of ideas and values which are themselves temporally and spatially specific. Different identity depeunding on who we are talking to. Dialect, mother tongue, official language, lingua franca, language family. Scots gaelic - spoken in cape breton, nova scotia. Certain cultural trains and symbols become prominent and adopted/promoted/stereotyped. Making our cultural representation accessible to others outside our system: translation, interpretation through codes, social conventions, ways of knowing.