Landscape and place

Question 1

Cultural Region

Answer 1

Is an area where certain cultural practices, beliefs or values are more or less practiced by the majority of the inhabitants

Question 2

Cultural Landscapes

Answer 2

The characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group with its own practices, preferences, values, aspirations and natural environment

Question 3

Cultural landscapes as text

Answer 3

Like a book, landscape can be read and written by groups and individuals. Landscapes produce and communicate meaning and geographers interpret these meanings

Question 4

Elements of the cultural landscape that you can read:

Answer 4

• Land use patterns
• Settlement patterns
• Typonyms

Question 5

Typonyms

Answer 5

Reveal something about the cultural history of an area. They often survive long after the original inhabitants dissapeared

Question 6

Mapping Cultural identities

Answer 6

• is a way to assert authority over territories

- Provides evidence about cultural history

Question 7

Space

Answer 7

is where activities take place

Question 8

Place

Answer 8

• Is inhabited space which is made more meaningful

- Is a meaningful location