INTBUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cultural Geography, Britishness, Easting And Northing
26 Sep 2020
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Culture and geography - the importance and meaning of mapping. The topographical theatre within which culture is performed (you perform who you are as opposed to just being who you are) Spacial metaphors (geographical terms used in order to have cultural meanings) fields, maps, landscapes, boundaries. A map can only tell where things are, it can"t tell you who is where and why it is there. Very detailed map yet also a political statement e. g. by anglicising the original welsh or irish names. Very important: start at the 00 point of the square and move east (easting) then north (northing) to provide the reference. One of these will be in the exam! What is grid reference of the london eye: tq 306 799; (correct) check wikipedia, tq 301 799, tq 306 795, tq 309 796. Relief map: important because you can see mountains in it. Settlement patterns two basic sets of dna dating back to neolithic period roughly.
