Cultural Landscapes
Define cultural landscapes.
The natural landscape has been modified by humans to reflect their cultural beliefs.
What is a repetitive act that a particular individual performs?
Habit
What are cultural traits?
Identifiable elements of a culture complex.
What is language?
A system of communication through speech, movement, sound, or symbols that a group of people understands to have the same meaning.
What is an institutional language?
The language used in education, work, mass media, and government.
What are some examples of cultural landscapes (give 2 examples)?
Gendered spaces and ethnic neighborhoods.
Describe the difference between folk culture and pop culture.
What are the 3 cultural traits?
Artifacts, Sociofacts, and Mentifacts.
What is the difference between a centripetal force and centrifugal force?
A centripetal force tends to unify people and a centrifugal force tends to pull them apart.
Define a threatened language and give one example.
Used for face to face communication, but is losing users.
What is it when through history leave their mark on a place?
Evidence of sequent occupancy
What is it called when you look at somebody's culture through your lens and not theirs?
Ethnocentrism.
What type of cultural traits are cars, buildings, and computers?
Artifacts
What can language tell you about migration?
It can tell us if there was migration to here in the past.
What is it called when a language is written as well as spoken?
Literary tradition.
Name 2 land-use patterns.
Agriculture, transportation, residential, or economy.
What is cultural relativism?
Thinking about someone's culture, not from your center of belief, but through their cultural context.
What are some examples of mentifacts?
Religion, language, and viewpoints.
Name the 4 Indo-European languages.
Indo-Iranian, Germanic, Romance, and Ballic-Slavic.
Is syncretism when 2 languages are combined to make a new one?
[True or Fasle]
True
Describe placemaking.
People collaborate to create communities where they can live, work, play, and learn.
What is the idea that cultures can be separate and distinct from one another and still co-exist?
Multicultralism.
Which cultural trait changes the slowest?
Mentifacts.
What is the most spoken language trunk?
Indo-European.
What is the difference between language family and language branch?
A language family is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language before recorded history. A language branch is a collection of languages related through a common ancestral language that existed several thousand years ago.