GEOG 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Moe Williams, Cultural Geography, Language Geography
15 Jul 2020
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Cultural geography emphasizes human beliefs and activities and how they vary spatially, utilize the environment, and change the landscape. Subcultures organize by age group, social class, sexuality, profession, etc. Ideological subsystem: mentifacts= ideas and beliefs. Technological subsystem: artifacts= tools and instruments. Sociological subsystem: sociofacts= mating and kinship systems, social hierarchy, politics. A culture hearth is the starting location of major or influential culture. Similar environments and similar traits but not identical cultural development. Spatial spread from key sites (trade routes, immigration) Sharing of technologies, organizational structures, and cultural traits. Changes in situ (in place) vs. changes from external conflict. Cultural syncretism= cultural blend of old and new cultural mentifacts, artifacts, and sociofacts (creates syncretics) Language is a system of communication based on symbols that have agreed upon meaning. Ubiquitous- use of language in every community. Common mentifact by which cultural groups are identified. Monolingual, bilingual, multilingual (the old joke about languages)
