GPHY 229 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Heterosexuality, Middle Ages, Cultural Landscape
13 Sep 2016
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Political support for the discipline of cultural landscapes was founded on the discovery of new places and people. Geographical discover and exploration facilitated and legitimated territorial claims and opened up new lands as an integral part of the colonial enterprise. Introduced the use of symbols and colours to cartography in an attempt to broaden academic interest in the discipline. Made the subject more accessible to the ordinary person. The common people, middle class were considered lesser than the elite. A cultured person (high culture) was someone who had achieved finery in his or her habits and tastes. An uncultured person was of lower culture, considered base or common, even savage. Culture: second definition: culture = ethnicity or race. Culture refers to distinct ethnic groups, categorised by language, religion, nation of birth, notions of race or indigeneity. Excludes: gender, sexuality, class and other ways of life from analysis.
