Chapter 1

Question 1

(Anderson et Al) Five distinctive notions of culture

Answer 1

CULTURE AS…

Distribution of Things

A way of Life

Meaning

Doing

Power

Question 2

First Traditional Cultural Geography pioneer

Answer 2

Car Sauer (1925)

Question 3

According to Vidal de La Blache

Answer 3

nature and human activity is connected and should be regarded as inseparable

Question 4

Cultural Turn

Answer 4

Used to describe a set of intellectual shifts which took place from the mid 1980s

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

“The ways of life for the members of a society.” A collection of learned behaviours/traits that pertain to a certain group of people

Question 6

Subsystems of culture (4) (TOSI)

Answer 6

Technological

Objects

Sociological

Ideological

Question 7

Sociological subsystems of culture

Answer 7

Expected and accepted patterns of inter-personal behaviour.

Question 8

Ideological subsystems of culture

Answer 8

Beliefs. Ideas. Knowledge. And the ways through which these things are expressed/used.

Question 9

Cultural geography

Answer 9

The study of how culture relates to space and place. A constant, back and forth dialogue between space and place and culture.

Question 10

Versions of Cultural Geography

Answer 10

Cartography

Traditional cultural geography (Catalogue of the world’s cultures)

As a term for all geography

Regional cultural geography

The ‘new’ cultural geography

Critiques of the ‘new’ cultural geography