GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Carl O. Sauer, Cultural Geography, Deindustrialization
30 Mar 2016
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Definitions (explain concepts in your own words, and why it is relevant) Short essay (choice of topics), create an argument about a particular idea. Culture: shared set of meanings that are lived through the material & symbolic practices of everyday life. Includes: values, beliefs, practices as well as ideas about religion, language, gender, family, sexuality, architecture, art & music. Rural/farming culture changed dramatically with the mechanisation of agriculture (less demand for labour); tattooing. Culture: dynamic and ongoing process of producing shared meanings and practices. Geography: dynamic context in which groups shape meaning and use place and space to shape meaning. Geography & culture: (a) geography is interested in the ways place & space shape culture and (b) how culture shape place & space. Implicates the tangible & intangible (symbolic, spiritual) qualities of place. Seeks to normalise the inequities involved in a racialized system.
