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The Human Mosaic CHAPTER ONE

The Human Mosaic CHAPTER ONE. Human Geography: A Cultural Approach. Aboriginal Painting, Australia. What do you think it depicts?. Catholic Church in Honduras. Buddhist temple in Laos. I. Introduction :. What is geography? What is culture? What is cultural geography?

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The Human Mosaic CHAPTER ONE

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  1. The Human MosaicCHAPTER ONE Human Geography: A Cultural Approach

  2. Aboriginal Painting, Australia. What do you think it depicts?

  3. Catholic Church in Honduras

  4. Buddhist temple in Laos

  5. I. Introduction: What is geography? What is culture? What is cultural geography? Power, ideology & postmodernism Five themes in cultural geography: Culture Region Cultural Diffusion Cultural Ecology Cultural Interaction Cultural Landscapes

  6. What determines the production of wheat worldwide?

  7. Generalized model of a Latin American city Explaining the processes at work shaping Latin American cities.

  8. Culture Region formal culture regions functional culture regions vernacular culture regions terminology: cultural traits, cultural borders, border zones, nodes, core-periphery patterns, perception and identity Vernacular often refers to the language or dialect spoken by ordinary (“folkish”) people in a particular region. Vernacular regions refer to perceived regions (and their mental maps) like the “Midwest”, “Dixie”, the “Outback”, themselves expressions of their ordinary people’s culture.

  9. Inuit hunter with his dogsled team

  10. Formal Regions of Europe based on language and religion

  11. East vs. west and north vs. south in Germany

  12. Traditional rural formal culture regions of North America

  13. Culture regions, traits and boundary (or border) zones

  14. Aerial view of Denver. Can you see any boundary zones?

  15. A valley filled with farms

  16. “Dixie”: a vernacular culture region.

  17. San Fernando Valley (“the valley”, “valspeak”, “valley girl”)

  18. Cultural Diffusion(after Torsten Hägerstrand) expansion diffusion contagious, hierarchical, stimulus relocation diffusion terminology: independent innovation, time-distance decay, absorbing barriers, permeable barriers, neighborhood effect, migration, transnational migrants & globalization

  19. Types of Cultural Diffusion

  20. Early diffusion of the printing press in Europe

  21. Diffusion of HIV/AIDS in Ohio

  22. According to your textbook, a demonstration against the deportation of immigrants in Germany. The banner, however, seems to address the issue of wars, possibly in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  23. Cultural Ecology Relationship between people & environment Importance of adaptive strategies Different schools of thought: a) environmental determinism (humans as clay to be molded by a dominant nature) b) environmental possibilism (local cultures develop within the possibilities offered by the environment) c) environmental perception (choices people make depend on their perception of the environment rather than the actual character) Organic vs. mechanistic view of nature d) humans as modifiers of the earth (humans mold nature) Ecofeminism? Are women better ecologists and environmentalists?

  24. Environmental determinism, possibilism, & the role of culture

  25. Environmental determinism, possibilism, & the role of culture

  26. Post-Katrina New Orleans

  27. Soil erosion and deforestation in the Amazon Basin, Brazil

  28. Landslide in El Salvador, Central America, killed more than 1,200 people in 2001.

  29. Cultural Interaction Intertwined facets of global cultures Interdependencies and uneven development throughout the world The Human Development Index Life expectancy, adult literacy, gross domestic product (see images below)

  30. Global culture on the street of Moscow

  31. Cultural Geography: Science or Art? Both? • social scientists develop models to better understand, say, Latin American cities • humanistic geographers try to understand “place” (topophilia) not seeking “laws”

  32. Cultural Landscapes visible expressions of culture humanized landscapes bear cultural meaning the art of reading cultural landscapes landscapes of folk vs. popular culture settlement landforms, land division patterns, architectural styles, grave yards, symbolic landscapes, and the power of globalization

  33. Terraced cultural landscapes in China

  34. Yokohama, Japan, at dusk

  35. American ranch house

  36. Market Square in Warsaw

  37. Westmoreland, Imperial Valley, CA • Land Ordinance of 1785

  38. Loghouse, Ottawa, Canada

  39. Toronto landscape, Canada

  40. Aboriginal painting / map of Arnhem Land in Australia

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