Lecture 1

Question 1

Categories of cultural traits (8)

Answer 1

Practices

Language

Clothing

Belief

Cuisine

Objects

Tools

Games

Question 2

Culture

Answer 2

“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 3

Subsystems of culture (4)

Answer 3

Technological

Objects

Sociological

Ideological

Question 4

Technological systems of culture

Answer 4

tools used within a culture. arrowheads, ploughs.

Question 5

Why are tools so important in examining ancient cultures

Answer 5

because they last.

Question 6

Sociological subsystems of culture

Answer 6

Expected and accepted patterns of inter-personal behaviour.

Question 7

Ideological subsystems of culture

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Cultural geography

Answer 8

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

Question 9

How cultural geography has changed

Answer 9

Exploring foreign “ethnic” people.

Question 10

Hypothesis

Answer 10

Early form theory.

Question 11

Theory

Answer 11

Once a hypothesis has been proven time and time again

Question 12

Systems studied in cultural geography (6)

Answer 12

Economic

Political

Cultural

Religious

Historical

Family

Etc.

Question 13

a cultural geographer is interested in….

Answer 13

relationships

identities

equities

AND HOW THEY PLAY OUT IN SPACE

Question 14

Recurring Themes (last thing to remember)

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Social construction of identity (4)

Answer 15

language

narratives

institutions

material spaces

Question 16

Identity is ____

Answer 16

Spatial! Spatiality of identity.

Question 17

Essentialism:

Answer 17

biology determines who you are. The idea that bodies have essences.

Question 18

Why is there a need to understand the workings of everyday geographies?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Why is there a need to understand the workings of everyday geographies? (6)

Answer 19

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

Question 20

“Enlightenment

Answer 20

Historical period that marked the inception of many modern academic disciplines, characterized by the prioritizing of rational scientific enquiry.

Question 21

Emotions

Answer 21

Feelings translated into shareable social constructs.

Question 22

Emotions

Answer 22

Feelings translated into shareable social constructs.

Question 23

60s 70s 80s – The emotional turn (POST MODERNISM)

Answer 23

• 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

Question 24

Corgito Ergo Sum

Answer 24

“I think therefore I am” - Rene Descartes

Human minds, not bodies were the defining characteristics of humans

Question 25

Bodily Practices (4)

Answer 25

• create spaces and routines
• fundamental to social-cultural issues
• key sites of power and resistance
• research is a bodily practice

Question 26

Embodiment

Answer 26

The “messy”, material stuff and processes that make up our bodies.