GGR267H5 Study Guide - Indus River, Mahatma Gandhi, Edward Said
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In the geography of human history, no culture is an island : what i understand of this quote is. Yi-fu tuan writes, place is an organized world of meaning . Amitav ghosh writes, in the geography of human history, no culture is an island. how do you understand these quotes taken from our syllabus? (mines and lamb) Because locations have meaning to groups of people, not just individually. Experiences of the world are different from person to person; an important place to one person is just a mass of land for another that culture is all around us. It isn"t isolated from anyone and it affects everyone. For example, in the movie jama masjid street journal you get to see how there are modern businesses but around it you are surrounded by traditional ways. Or another example, there are practices of indian culture in canada cuisine, karma sutra, etc.
