hum geo unit 3 Flashcards
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culture
comprised of shared practices, technologies, attitudes and behaviors trasmitted by a society
Folk culture
practiced by small homogenous, rurl, close kint group, which lives in isolaiton. Like Amish. Smaller sclae, through relaction dffusion. Has isolation form other cultures, tradition contrals. has restistance to chage. Anonymos origins and diffuses only through MIGRATION
local culture
a group in a place that sees itself as a community that shares experices, customs, and traits that distinguish from others. wants to hold on to their culture.
cultural lag
when pop culture is behind
pouplar culture
found in large heterogenous society that shares habits despite differences. changes over time, is more urban. The wide distribution, hosing stypes, and comrcilized foods create sense of placelessss
material culture
the physical objects in a culture, food, clothing, arts
Carl Sauer
cultural landscape
non material cultural
aspects of culture you can not touch, like language and religion
jew food taboos
only eat animlas tht chew cud, have cloven fee, cant mix meat and milk, only eat fish with fins or scales, and food has to be kosher
muslim food taboos
no pork or alcohol
hidndo food taboo
no cows
folk music and coloting
music : trasmited orally, content events on daily life
cloting: stlye developed for farming
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folk architecture
agricultural such as fields, terraces, grain stroage, and dwellings
placeless ness
created by popculture
bungalow
sing story with dormer windows, veradndas shade house, dark inside, more expensive. Made for hot places, has windows where the wind blows, and has a shaded porch.
single pile
a row of rooms. Has a lip on roof so that snow /rain can fall off
doubel pile.
two rows of rooms, chimminy at the 2 ends. built for cold enviornmens
ranch house
usal single soty house, wide, opean, long roofline.
how are local cultures sustained?
Assimilation policies : force poeple to adopt dominat cultures.
Has customs
preseve boundaries to keep other cultures out
avoding cultural appropiation, and has a sense of place
cultural appropriation
where you take on an aspect of another culture and make money off of it and not helping the other group.
rural local cultures
isolation, has common economic activities.
urban loca cultures
ethnic enclaves within citires. Like hadici Jews, they stick to themselves they do not what he spreqad of pop culture to their childern.
- creates a space to practice customs
commodification
process of making something that was not previously bought and sold a commodity in the marketplace.
