[Geography 1400F/G] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (29 pages long!)

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Summary of important introductory argument to a world divided: Our world is divided, especially because of spatial variations in culture. By culture, we mean the human ability to develop ideas from. 2. experiences and subsequently act on the basis of those ideas. 3. tendency is for them to become the frame of reference however inappropriate within which all new developments in culture are placed and evaluated. 4. values in effect to re-engineer ourselves. Once cultural activities and behaviours are in place, ad inevitable. One task humans may choose to tackle today is to create new sets of: culture acts as a barrier between people at the world scale. Capabilities and habits acquired by members of a society ocodes a set of rules or guidelines; formal or informal. Bodies (positioning & gestures) body language and beauty. Landscapes oanother definition of culture: totality of a shared, learned way of life ; doing and thinking ogoal of studying culture: