Lecture 1 Flashcards
Categories of cultural traits (8)
Practices
Language
Clothing
Belief
Cuisine
Objects
Tools
Games
Culture
“The ways of life for the members of a society.” A collection of learned behaviours/traits that pertain to a certain group of people
Subsystems of culture (4)
Technological
Objects
Sociological
Ideological
Technological systems of culture
tools used within a culture. arrowheads, ploughs.
Why are tools so important in examining ancient cultures
because they last.
Sociological subsystems of culture
Expected and accepted patterns of inter-personal behaviour.
Ideological subsystems of culture
Beliefs. Ideas. Knowledge. And the ways through which these things are expressed/used.
Cultural geography
The study of how culture relates to space and place. A constant, back and forth dialogue between space and place and culture.
How cultural geography has changed
Exploring foreign “ethnic” people.
Hypothesis
Early form theory.
Theory
Once a hypothesis has been proven time and time again
Systems studied in cultural geography (6)
Economic
Political
Cultural
Religious
Historical
Family
Etc.
a cultural geographer is interested in….
relationships
identities
equities
AND HOW THEY PLAY OUT IN SPACE
Recurring Themes (last thing to remember)
Individuals are part of societies/cultures
Space - society dialectic
Relationships/systems
The local and everyday is important
Social relations are power relations
Truth is contested
The experience is meaningful
Social construction of identity (4)
language
narratives
institutions
material spaces
Identity is ____
Spatial! Spatiality of identity.
Essentialism:
biology determines who you are. The idea that bodies have essences.
Why is there a need to understand the workings of everyday geographies?
To identify:
- hidden injuries or everyday indignities
- overarching structures
- acknowledgment of procedural complexity
- critiques of the politics of academic knowledge
- limitations in key methods, concepts, representations
- note the experiences that escape description
Why is there a need to understand the workings of everyday geographies? (6)
To identify:
- hidden injuries or everyday indignities
- overarching structures
- acknowledgment of procedural complexity
- critiques of the politics of academic knowledge
- limitations in key methods, concepts, representations
- note the experiences that escape description
“Enlightenment
Historical period that marked the inception of many modern academic disciplines, characterized by the prioritizing of rational scientific enquiry.
Emotions
Feelings translated into shareable social constructs.
Emotions
Feelings translated into shareable social constructs.
60s 70s 80s – The emotional turn (POST MODERNISM)
- the voices of individuals become real and valuable
- Anti- modernism
- Marxist and quantitative materials seen as dehumanizing
- Feminists critical of limited engagement with emotions
- Eventually people came along and recognized that everyone had emotions.
- Active research on issues such as a disability
Corgito Ergo Sum
“I think therefore I am” - Rene Descartes
Human minds, not bodies were the defining characteristics of humans
