GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Charter Of The French Language, Language Family, Vernacular Architecture
2 Mar 2018
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Components of culture: dress, diet, architecture, religious practice, rites of passage, difference between regions, countries, space, outward perception of difference. Culture definitions: shared meanings, materials & practices, way of life, characteristic activities, culture key concepts, continuous re-evaluated and redefined, tied to place, usually locally and move globally. Cultural traits: clothing, religion, diet, etc, scaling up from local. Larger scale: mapping identities, e. g. religion, vernacular architecture across the country. Cultural landscapes: the cultural impact on an area, e. g. buildings, agricultural patterns, roads, signs (and nearly everything else that humans have created, what we can see of a culture, reading cultural landscapes, boundaries, power built into them. Cultural architecture: folk architecture/vernacular architecture, cultures transform landscape to meet needs, responding to environment, materials, protection. Why do different cultures emerge: diffusion: family & community, taught: formal & informal. Isolation: physical (lack of transportation, roads, communication networks, culture. Ideological: religious, rejection of dominant culture, (cid:862)su(cid:271)-(cid:272)ultures(cid:863, youth cultures.
