Test 2 Lecture Guide: Cultural Geography

Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7
Chapter 4: Culture
The Blues
Culture
Material culture
Non-material culture
Trait
Custom
Complex
Cultural hearth
Regional culture
Syncretic culture
Folk culture (tradition)
Oral tradition
Folklore
Music
Food and drink
Alcohol
Medicine and magic
Marriage and family customs
Taboos
Sports and games
Celebrations
Popular culture (fashion or cool)
Commercial
Commodification of culture
Media
Mass production
Local culture
Assimilation
Cultural appropriation
Rural local cultures
Urban local cultures
Ethnic neighborhoods
Neolocalism
Cultural revival
Simplification
Identity
Tourism
Authenticity keeping it real
Disneyfication
The commodification of Mardi Gras
Diffusion
Distance decay
Space-time compression
Cultural barriers
Expansion diffusion
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Stimulus diffusion
Reterritorialization
Relocation diffusion
Geophagy

Neo-Europes Ecological Imperialism

Cultural modification
Assimilation
Acculturation
Adaptation
Syncretism Southern culture
Globalization
Global-local continuum
Glocalization
Soccer
Cultural Landscape
Cultural ecology Changes in the Land
Settlement patterns (page 347, chapter 11)
The built environment
Housing types
Vernacular house style
Charleston single house
Shotgun house
Stilt houses in Cambodia
Architecture
Placelessness pop culture commercial landscape
Chapter 5: Identity
Identity
Identifying againsthow the Irish became white
Race
Biology of physiological differences
Race as a social or legal construct
Racism
Apartheid
Jim Crow
Inequalities in America
Recent studies of health care
Ethnicity
Cultural, not biological
Marginalized peoples
Plural Society
Residential segregation
Ghettos and barrios
Ethnic Island
Ethnic landscape
Invasion and succession
Ethnic Conflict
Ethnocentrism
Nationalism
Hutu vs. Tutsi in Rwanda
Sri Lanka
Separatists
Ethnic Cleansing
The Balkans
Balkanization
Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians
Darfur
Genocide
The evil legacy of the 20th century

Gender Inequalities
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality
Sexuality, tolerance and persecution
Uganda
Gender roles
Division of labor
Gendered place
Longevity Gap
Missing Women
Female Infanticide
Social injustice
Genital Mutilation
Dowry deaths
Purdah
The fertility/opportunity relationship
Violence
Women in the workplace
Exclusion
Exploitation
Agriculture
Industry
The glass ceiling in America and Europe
Women in Politics
Enfranchisement
Patriarchy
Chapter 6: Language
Linguistics
Language
Non-literate, literate, and why it matters
Oral tradition
Standard Language
Dialect
Dialect chain
The Dynamic Nature of Language, the English example
From marauding Angles to Mumford and Sons, a brief history of English
Dialects of Empire
Standardizing the American Dialect: Noah Webster
American Dialects
Language Families
Sub-families
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
Hindi, Urdu, etc
Europe up close
Major: Germanic, Romance, Slavic
Minor: Celtic, Greek, Albanian, Baltic
Non Indo-European: Finish, Hungarian, Basque
A quick glance at some of the other language families
Afro-Asiatic Arabic, Hebrew, etc
Arabic: multiple languages or one?
Niger-Congo The Bantu Expansion
Sino-Tibetan Chinese
Japanese-Korean isolated
Dravidian the remnant language of ancient India

Malay-Polynesian far flung

Khoisan the click language of southern Africa
Ancient connections
How Languages change
Is Latin really dead?
Divergence
Lingua Franca
Pidgin
Creole
Fixing language grammar, education, technology, politics
Academie Francais and the Anglo-American conspiracy
Toponymy
Language in our world
Politics
Official Language
Monolingual
Bilingual or multilingual
Canada and the Quebecois
Changing culture
Languages on the rise.
Languages that are struggling or why the is no MTV in Welsh
Is technology killing the English language?
Chapter 7: Religion
Religions impact on culture and history
General Religion concepts
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
Animistic and Shamanism
Ethnic or Cultural Religion
Universalizing Religion
Proselytizing Missionary
Pagan
Syncretic Religions
Ex: Sikhism and Christianity
Pilgrimage
Religious Calendars
Death Burial, Cremation, other
Secularism
Major World Religions
Hinduism
India
Dharma, Karma, and reincarnation
Caste System
Historic distribution Angkor Wat and Bali
Buddhism
Siddhartha
Mahayana greater vehicle Vietnam, Korea, Japan, China
Theravada Thailand, Sri Lanka, Burma
Lamaism Tibet
Shintoism Japan
Dali Lama
Pagoda
Chinese religions/philosophies
Taoism

Feng Shui
Confucianism
Regional cultural influence
Religion in the Peoples Republic of China
Zoroastrianism
Judaism
Monotheism
Diaspora
Western Wall
Ashkenazim
Sephardim
Zionism Israel
Modern distribution
Reformed
Conservative
Orthodox
Christianity
Origins Jesus and Paul
Early Christianity
Roman Catholicism
The Vatican and the Pope
Eastern Orthodoxy
The Protestants
Denomination
Later Day Saints Mormons
The spread and traditional distributions
Islam
Mohammad
Five pillars of Faith
The Koran and Arabic
Mosque and Minarets
Jihad
Division
Sunni
Shiite
The spread and distribution of Islam
Interfaith Boundaries and conflict
Enclaves and Exclaves
Africa
Islam in the Sahel
Sharia in Nigeria
Asia
The Former Soviet Union
The Philippines
Indonesia
India and Pakistan
Middle East
Is the Arab-Israel conflict religious?
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount
Europe
The Balkans
Western Europes new Muslim Population
Anti-Semitism
Intrafaith Boundaries and conflict
Iraqi Shiites
Ayatollah

Northern Ireland
The Balkans
Modern Issues
Secularisms rise. Marxism, materialism, and science
Liberation Theology. Columbus connection
Fundamentalism
Millennialism
Christian Fundamentalism
Americas political culture wars
Islamic Fundamentalism
Sharia
Wahhabi Islamic Puritans
The Iranian Revolution
Islamist Political movements and revolutions
The Taliban
What role will religions play in the future?