GG102 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
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Mennonite cultural landscape: there marks on landscape: transportaion, churches, graveyards (imprints of culture), german languages on the landscape. Diversiied diferent types of trees, farms, grain ields: range of 30 km to travel as their transportaion, small scaled landscape, no power leading to houses, example kenya, herders landscape. Tcg: how do humans shape the cultural landscape (factors) culture ime (medium) natural landscape (forms) populaion, density, mobility, housing, plan, structure (images in textbook) Who has the power to deine the words we decide to use who is ethic? who is mainstream? what is normal: for example: woman were seen as majority because men were portrayed to be. Why are we challenging power: such as tatoos, not swimming with a. We teach our kids how to behave, what not to say during university environment. Example: the students are the audience; professor is the speaker. If he was quiet for 5 minutes it would defeat cultural purpose.
