GEOG-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Empty Spaces
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Rules of place: the both spoken and unspoken, recognized and unconscious, ways people are expected to behave in certain settings. Cultural rules and understandings: embedded in everyday spaces and landscapes, shape the ways we experience space. Landscape: the arrangement or pattern of things on land; the look or style of the land; the shape and structure of a place. Landscapes like space and place are social processes. Reproduced, changed as people move through them. Tewa: a language group of the pueblo indians. Comparing the pueblo to a day school, showing different values/social worlds/sense of self embedded into landscapes. Different structures reflect different world view, one of them of the indians and the other the dominant society. Most important relationship is with the land, natural environment, and cosmos. Imagined themselves as part of nature which contrasts with the separation of inside and outside spaces.
