GEO 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Arab Idol, Carl O. Sauer, Cultural Landscape
Document Summary
Today: geographies of race and ethnicity, culture and geopolitics. Material culture: a process of intellectual or spiritual development, attained through the process. The way of life of a particular group, class or subculture, identify way people live. Works and practices of intellectual artistic activity. Using a culture as an excuse: observed dynamics or outcomes being a result of people"s culture. Cultural region: area where homogeneity in measurable cultural traits may be identified. A portion of land or scenery can be viewed at once. Tried to visual landscape art and gardening: landscape parts. In geography, landscape is: arrangement of things on lands. Natural area is the medium, culture is agent, cultural landscape is result. We carry strong feelings right or natural way to organize a landscape. Scholars reading a landscape can provide a window of values on particular cultures: object of analysis. Diffusion of house types that cultural landscapes.
