Cultural Geographies (Chapter 5) – Flashcards
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Actor Network Theory
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actually less of a theory and more of an orientation. Views the world as composed of heterogeneous things, including humans and non-humans and objects.
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Affect
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Emotions that are embodied reactions to the social and physical environment.
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Cultural Complex
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Combination of traits characteristic of a particular group.
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Cultural Geography
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Focuses on the way space, place, and landscape shape culture at the time that culture shapes space, place, and landscape.
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Cultural Hearths
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The geographic origins or sources of innovations, ideas, or ideologies.
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Cultural Landscape
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A characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group-with its own practices, preferences, values, and aspirations-and its natural environment.
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Cultural Nationalism
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an effort to protect regional and national cultures from the homogenizing impact of globalization, especially from the penetrating influence of US culture.
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Cultural Region
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An area where certain cultural practices, beliefs, or values are more or less practiced by the majority of the inhabitants.
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Cultural System
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traits, territorial affiliation, and shared history, as well as other, more complex elements, such as language and religion.
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Cultural Trait
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A single aspect of the complex of routine practices that constitute a particular cultural group.
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Culture
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Is a shared set of meanings that is lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life.
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Dialects
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Within standard languages, regional variations of the language.
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Diaspora
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Spatial dispersion of a previously homogeneous group.
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Ethnicity
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A socially created system of rules about who belongs to a particular group based upon actual or perceived commonalities, such as language or religion.
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Folk Culture
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Is seen by specialists as the traditional practices of small groups, especially rural people with a simple lifestyle (Compared with modern, urban people), such as the Amish in Pennsylvania or the Roma in Europe, who are seen as homogeneous in their belief systems and practices.
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Genre de vie
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Key concept in Vidal de la Blache's approach to cultural geography in France, referred to a functionally organized way of life characteristic of a particular culture group. Centered on the livelihood practice of groups that were seen to shape physical, social, and psychological bonds.
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Historical Geography
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Very simply, defined, is the geography of the past.
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Hybridity
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meant to convey a mixing of different types.
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Islam
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An Arabic term that means "Submission," specifically submission to God's will.
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Islamism
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An anti-colonial, anti-imperial political movement.
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Kinship
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Normally thought of as a relationship based on blood, marriage, or adoption.
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Language
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communicating ideas or feelings by means of a conventionalized system of signs, gestures, marks, or articulate vocal sounds.
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Language branch
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Collection of languages that possesses a definite common origin but has split into individual languages.
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Language family
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Collection of individual languages believed to be related in their prehistorical origin.
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Language group
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Collection of several individual languages that is part of a language branch, shares a common origin in the recent past, and has relatively similar grammar and vocabulary.
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Materialism
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emphasizes that the material world-its objects and nonhuman entities-is at least partly separate from humans and possesses the power to affect humans.
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Muslim
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Member of the community of believers who duty is obedience and submission to the will of god.
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Non representational theory
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understand human life as process that is always unfolding, always becoming something different, even if only slightly so.
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Popular Culture
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The practices and meaning systems produced by large groups of people whose norms and tastes are often heterogeneous and change frequently, often in response to commercial produces.
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Race
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A problematic classification of human beings based on skin color and other physical characteristics.
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Racialization
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Practice of creating unequal castes based on the nor of whiteness.
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Religion
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Belief system and a set of practices that recognize the existence of a power higher than humankind.
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Rites of passage
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Acts, customs, practices, or procedures that recognize key transitions in human life-birth, menstruation, and other markers of adulthood such as sexual awakening and marriage.
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Sexuality
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A set of practices and identities that a given culture considers related to each other and to those things it considers sexual acts and desires.
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Tribe
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Form of social identity created by groups who share a set of ideas about collective loyalty and political action.
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World Music
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Musical genre defined largely by the surge of non English language recordings released in the UK and the US during the 1980s.
