Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Landscape, Cultural Geography
10 Dec 2018
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30 true or false; 20 multiple choice; 10 short answer. 5 sa worth 3 marks each, 5 worth 2 marks each. Humans and environment is a complex system. Humans are the dominant agents of environmental change. Key for energy future is renewable and reduction. Capabilities and habits acquired by members of a society. Eating cutlery, how to set table, hand-shaking, driving on the right/left. Codes: a set of rules and guidelines; formal or informal. Laws, clothing, values, food, bodies (positioning and gestures), manners/etiquette, landscapes. Landscapes: literally learn to read, interpret or decode the arrangement in space of human activities and actions. Hall"s four spatial zones: public, social, personal, intimate. Totality of a shares, learned way of life, doing and thinking. Religion, language, gender, foods, ethnicity, skills, place attachment. Totality of learned way of life: specialized behavioural patterns, understandings, adaptations and social systems that constitute a people"s way of life. Understandings: what we know and how we know.
