GEOG 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Yellow Fever, Caravel, Columbian Exchange

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1103
• Professor: Pettersen

Document Summary

Both readings focus on 4 factors of culture and geography. Need geography to understand history and culture. Geography alone is boring and we must understand culture and history to get geography. To understand culture, we must understand culture wars and how they came to be (the four factors) and how they relate to geography. Mitchell: culture comes from culture wars and to understand culture wars and how they came to be we must study the four factors. 1. the opposite of nature what makes humans human: patterns and differentiations of people, process by which the processes developed, markers of us and them . 5. the process by which ways, patterns, and markers are represented: hierarchical ordering of processes (when people compare cultures against one another) Culture separates, creates stereotypes, tensions (which cause culture wars), creates groups and attempts to normalize actions. Normalize actions everyone around you is doing what is perceived as normal based on one"s culture.