Cultural Geography chapter 5

a shared set of meanings that is lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life.

focuses on the way space, place, and landscape shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space, place, and landscape.

the traditional practices of small groups, especially rural people with a simple lifestyle (compared with modern, urban people), such as the Amish in Pennsylvania or the Roma (also known as Gypsies or Travelers) in Europe, who are seen as homogeneous in their belief systems and practices. All of them believe in one religion.

the practices and meaning systems produced by large groups of people whose norms and tastes are often heterogeneous and change frequently, often in response to commercial products.

a characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group - with its own practices, preferences, values, and aspirations - and its natural landscape.

the geography of the past.

Vidal de la Blache's approach cultural geography in France, referred to a functionally organized way of life characteristic of a particular culture group. The belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social, ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.

a single aspect of the complex of routine practices that constitute a particular culture group.

acts, customs, practices, or procedures that recognize key transitions in human life - birth, menstruation, and other markers of adulthood such as sexual awakening and marriage. A coming-of-age, in essence.

the combinations of traits characteristic of a particular group.

an area where certain cultural practices, beliefs, or values are more or less practiced by the majority of the inhabitants.

includes traits, territorial affiliation, and shared history, as well as other, more complex elements, such as language and religion.

a belief system and a set of practices that recognize the existence of a power higher than humankind.

a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area. Scattering or dispersion. Or the spatial dispersion of a previously homogeneous group.

an Arabic term that means "submission," specifically submission to God's will.

a member of the community of believers whose duty is obedience and submission to the will of God.

the use of television to spread and communicate Christianity - especially in the US - this has led to the conversion of large numbers of people to Christian fundamentalism.

from late 19th century, the transdenominational Protestant movement that opposed the accommodation of Christian doctrine to modern scientific theory and philosophy, especially Darwinian theories about the origin of life on Earth. Basically they follow the literal interpretation of the Bible.

a way of communicating ideas or feelings by means of a conventionalized system of signs, hand gestures, marks, or articulate vocal sounds.

regional variations of language. They feature differences in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary that are place-based in nature. For Example: South, if ya lose your khakis, you've lost a pair of shorts. But in Boston, if you lode your khakis, you cant drive your car.

a collection of individual languages believed to be related in their prehistorical origin.

a collection of languages that possesses a definite common origin but has split into individual languages.

a collection of several individual languages that is part of a language branch, shares a common origin in the recent past, and has relatively similar grammar and vocabulary.

geographic origins or sources of culture, innovations, ideas, or ideologies.

a relationship based on blood, marriage, or adoption. Shared notion of all relationship among members of a group.

a form of social identity created by groups who share a set of ideas about collective loyalty and political action.

an anti-colonial, anti-imperial political movement. Demands man's complete adherence to the sacred law of Islam and rejects as much as possible outside influence, with some exceptions (such as access to military and medical technology).

a set of practices and identities that a given culture considers related to each other and to those things it considers sexual acts and desires.

a socially created system of rules about who belongs to a particular group based upon actual or perceived commonalities, such as language or religion.

the practice of creating unequal castes based on the norm of whiteness. Or describing the processes of ascribing ethnic or racial identities to a relationship, social practice, or group that did not identify itself as such.

meant to convey a mixing of different types.

the capacity of nonhumans to act or participate in systems or networks or both. Views the world as composed of "heterogeneous things" including humans and nonhumans and objects.

understands human life as a process that is always unfolding, always becoming something different, even if only slightly so.

emotions that are embodied reactions to the social and physical environment. Also about the power of these emotions to result in or enable action.

emphasizes that the material world - its objects and nonhuman entities - is at least partly separate from humans and possesses the power to affect humans.

encompassing many different types of music from around the world including traditional music, nontraditional music, and where more than one cultural tradition intermingle. (good but different definition).

movement with strict view of doctrine or support for literal interpretation. Return to former principles.

a problematic classification of human beings based on skin color and other physical characteristics.

a movement that is an effort to protect regional and national cultures from the homogenizing impact of globalization, especially from the penetrating influence of U.S. culture.