GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cultural Landscape, Human Imprint, Spatial Scale
20 Dec 2017
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These cultural attributes vary based on: religious beliefs, language spoken, ethnic/ ancestral origin, age, gender, and individual personality. Despite this variation they are dominant forms of what we call material culture in our society. Culture: the way of life of the members of a society. Culture (and cultural practices) varies over geographical space. Consider your own life and daily routine: This variation may be slight or vast. Because mexico, united states, canada and quebec. Culture: the way of life of the members of society. The emergence & history of culture: civilization . Consider sub-culture: the values, beliefs, lifestyle of a minority group within society. Cultural geography: the study of cultural activities and phenomena: the spatial distribution, the hearth areas: the area from which the cultural activity emerges or is most concentrated, the process of diffusion across space. 2 categories of culture: material and non-material. Artifacts: all the tangible elements related to how people live their lives.
