History of Cultural Geography
This is the idea that the environment is mostly responsible for the ways in which culture develops and varies across space
What is environmental determinism?
According to the Census Bureau, _______ is any territory that is not urban
What is rural?
Music is often thought of as being from one of two domains: either ______ or ______
What are folk and pop?
In contrast to the social construction of race, _____ is complex and varied and often tied to territory
What is ethnicity?
Domosh and Seager raise the question of whether domestic labor or household chores should be considered ______
What is work?
Architecture, clothing, and food are all examples of what kind of culture?
What is material culture? (Or cultural artifacts)
This was the system of state-sanctioned segregation between Black, Colored, and White groups in South Africa
What is apartheid?
Our discussion of Doug Sahm focused on the creation of this type of music
What is Texas Music?
This big geographic idea is "there, but we don't talk about it"
What is space?
These are the places of origin for certain food crops
What are centers of domestication?
The idea that the environment can only limit or constrain the amounts of choices available to a human culture but that culture itself is the result of human actions alone and is determined by human agency
What is environmental possibilism?
Cronon questioned this "problematic" term related to nature
What is wilderness?
In the article on surf tourism in Pavones, Costa Rica, the three key constituent groups were _________, _________, and __________
What are the natives (Ticos), long-term residents/ex-pats, and tourists?
The article on microbreweries by Wes Flack referred to how businesses may harness this idea to connect consumers to a sense of place
What is neolocalism?
Many feminist geographers have addressed this binary that has sometimes been used to 'rank' societies or separate humans from their environment
What is the nature-culture binary?
He said, "The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a cultural group. Culture is the agent, the natural are the medium, the cultural landscape is the result"
Who is Carl Sauer?
Rachel Carson drew national attention toward the dangers of this compound to human and environmental health in the 1960s
What is DDT?
Jazz, an art form known for its diverse range of influences, improvisation, and cultural history, is sometimes called ______ music
What is American music?
Shobe's article about FC Barcelona discussed identity and place in this "breakaway" region of Spain
What is Catalonia?
Halal and Haram for followers of Islam, Kosher, and Latin American staples all can be examples of this important aspect of food
What is cultural significance?
This term refers to the turn away from descriptive geography and an emphasis on "discovering" laws, building theories, and a focus on statistics and mathematical models in geography
What is the quantitative revolution?
This practice involves marking off "risky" neighborhoods on a map and then using that map to determine lending policy
What is redlining?
The process of landscape change in Guilin, China was described by one author as this:
What is "Disneyfication?"
Sambo's, Doug Sahm, and Caucasians who sport Maori tribal tattoos might all be accused of this
What is cultural appropriation?
Actor-network theory could view this as both an actor and a network, comprising cell phones, cars, a house, pets, people, and more
What is a family?