GPHY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Core Countries, Cultural Ecology, Aboriginal Peoples In Canada

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Joyce Davidson

Document Summary

Culture is a central, complex concept in geography and may be thought of as a way of life involving a particular set of skills, values and meanings. This can include youth styles of dress as well as operatic arias and slang and ecclesiastical languages. Geographers are concerned about place and space in relation to culture and how culture relates to place and space. The places that cultural practises are produced shape cultural production as much as cultural production shapes the places it occurs. Cultural geography has been broadened to include analysis of gender, class, ethnicity, stage in the life cycle, etc in recognizing that important differences can exist within as well as between other cultures. Cultural ecology (offshoot of cultural geography) focuses on the relation between cultural ground and the environment. Political ecologists also focus on human-environment relationships but stress that relationships at all scales (global to local) are intertwines with larger political and economic force.