Handout 10 - Cultural Geography - Test 2 Flashcards
What is culture?
customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group.
What is subculture?
is a group that shares a smaller bundle of attributes with a larger, more diverse society.
what is hunting and gathering?
Is a subsistence strategy employed by human societies beginning some 1.8 millions years ago. It is any human culture or society that depends on a combination of hunting, fishing and gathering wild food for subsistence.
Bushmen - a member of any of several indigenous peoples of Southern Africa. They are traditionally nomadic hunter-gathers.
Inuits(Eskimo) - a member of an indigenous people of northern Canada and parts of Greenland and Alaska - hunter-gathers. They rely on their deep knowledge of the land, ice and sea to sustain themselves.
what is nomadic pastoralism?
Way of life of people who move with their livestock in search of fresh pastures
Tuareg people (northern Nigeria) are known as pastoral nomads
Nomadic tribes in Mongolia - The nomadic lifestyle is centered around the family and the community, and involves the herding of 5 main animals including sheep, goat, horse, cow, camel and some yaks.
What is agriculture?
the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products:
From slash and burn to mechanized agriculture
What is slash and burn agriculture?
a type of shifting cultivation, an agricultural system in which farmers routinely move from one cultivable area to another.
what is mechanized agriculture?
is the use of machinery and equipment, ranging from simple and basic hand tools to more sophisticated, motorized equipment and machinery, to perform agricultural operations.
What is industrialism?
a social or economic system built on manufacturing industries
What is cultural diffusion?
material culture, pop culture
Spread of cultural items such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, and languages between individuals whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.
What is culture region?
defined by a relatively continuous presence of one or a set of cultural traits. These traits often relate to folk culture and some of the most important are:
Religion
Language
Family structures
Food production and diets
Settlement patterns and housing types
What is behavioral geography?
is a subfield of cultural geography that studies our perception of the world around us and of how our perception influences our behavior.
What is Westernization?
adopting the cultural, economic, or political systems of Europe and North America.
