AP Human Geography

Chapter 2 Study Guide 3

Commodification of Culture
1. What define culture?

2. What type of culture includes the tangible and visible artifacts,

implements, and structures created by people?

3. How is nonmaterial culture different from material culture?

4. Give at least 3 examples of both material culture and nonmaterial

culture?

5. What does cultural geography study?

6. Cultural geographers are extremely interested in the

____________________________ of culture.
7. What is this closely associated with?

8. Give an example of how commodities can shape social relationships

between people.

9. What is one of the main forces affecting consumption both locally and
globally?

10.

What is it designed to do?

11.
What advertising strategy (in brief) has been utilized by the
diamond industry to increase diamond consumption and prices even
though diamonds are not all that scarce?

12.
What ritual have diamond marketers and advertisers made
nearly global?

13.
What diamond company dominated the early diamond trade and
helped establish a cartel?

14.
Describe how a cartel controls supply and demand for a
commodity?

15.
How did De Beers create the illusion that diamonds are a scarce
commodity?

16.

What helped to break De Beers hold on the diamond industry?

17.
Even though there are more sources for the supply of diamonds,
why have diamond prices not dropped all that much?

18.
What facet of the Maori folk culture has been heavily
commodified in the past decade?

19.

Would type of cultural trait would this be considered?

20.
For what two reasons has the commodification of the haka
been hotly contested? (in brief)

21.
What did lawyers for the NZRFU argue in their case with the
Maori tribe?

22.
What two crucial points can be taken from the debate over the
haka (in brief)?

23.

How has the definition of heritage changed in recent years?

24.
What has to be done to heritage in order for it to have broad
appeal?

25.

What is heritage dissonance?

26.
What two reasons (in brief) do authors J.E. Turnbridge and G.J.
Ashworth give for the existence of heritage dissonance?

27.

What is unique about world or global heritage?

28.
What global organization is responsible for the modern
movement to protect and preserve world heritage beginning in the
1960s and 1970s?

29.
What is the charge of the World Heritage Committee created by
UNESCO in 1972?

30.

What major shift lead to the expansion of the World Heritage list?