logging in or signing up class6b Carmina Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 244 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: March 11, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Class 6b: Intro to Cultural Geography: Class 6b: Intro to Cultural GeographyWhat is culture?: What is culture? Material objects (artifacts) Interpersonal relations (sociofacts) Ideas and beliefs (mentifacts) Each element has a spatial distributionWhat does culture include?: What does culture include? Language Religion Architecture Clothing Food Gender relations Music Agriculture Art Tolerance Education TechnologyArtifacts of culture: Artifacts of culture Survival vs. leisure activities Housing, food, clothing Arts, recreation Folk vs. popular culture Local, homogenous groups Large, heterogeneous groups Environmental influence: Environmental influence Old: environmental determinism Physical environment shapes everything Prone to racist conclusions New: possibilism People are the driving force But environment shapes cultural activity Architecture: Architecture Building materials based on environment Wood in forested areas Brick in hot, dry places Grass or sod on prairies Skins for nomadsSlide7: Syria Dominican Republic Newfoundland NebraskaArchitecture: Architecture House shape may depend on environment Interior courtyards for privacy Open plan for letting in air Tall, narrow to maximize land Steep roofs in snowy areasSlide9: Amsterdam Massachusetts ChinaArchitecture: Architecture House form and orientation as sociofacts Front porches, front stoops Sacred direction, sacred wall Sleeping orientationSlide11: Brooklyn GuyanaSlide12: Poland Yemen KoreaClothing: Clothing Based on climate Warm or cold Wet or dry May reflect occupation/status Also reflect values, traditions Slide14: Samoa Netherlands China Guatemala MoroccoFood: Food Strong part of group identity Demonstrates innovation, diffusion, acculturation, and assimilation Can be part of place identity Back and forth between culture and placeFood: Food Preferences may depend on environment Staple foods: rice, sorghum, maize, wheat Salted meats, fish Fresh vegetables Or genetics (lactose intolerance)Slide18: Food hearths mapAmerican foodways: American foodways Colonial foods (Thanksgiving) Foods diffused back to New World Potatoes to Ireland Tomatoes to Italy Chocolate to Spain Peanut and sweet potato to Africa Mixing of foods (creole)American foodways: American foodways Acculturation (or not) Southern cooking retains strong regional identity African slaves cooked on plantations Less urban influence Anti-North attitudes discouraged American foodways: American foodways More immigrants mean more foods Similar diffusion pattern to place names Anti-immigrant attitudes through dieticians Chili power bad for stomach Common pot unsanitary Pickles unhealthyAmerican foodways: American foodways Towards “fusion cooking” Depression, wars encouraged thriftiness Soldiers ate same food, encountered diversity Middle class: “exotic” foods Melting pot salad bowlSlide23: Vinegar Tomato MustardFood and place identity: Food and place identity Historical connections Deliberate marketing Tourism and place “consumption” Pineapples and Hawaii Lobster and Maine Wine appellations and terroirPineapples and Hawaii: Pineapples and Hawaii Originally South American Plantations since 1800s Dole’s national ad campaign in 1907: Hawaiian pineapple Cheaper to grow in Thailand, Philippines Hawaii focuses on fresh fruit for touristsLobsters and Maine: Lobsters and Maine Originally food for poor, or fertilizer Wealthy New Englanders in 1860s Summering in Maine Imitating the locals Only for wealthy vacationers Now negative symbol for localsWine geography: Wine geography Production based on environmental factors Temperate climate (hot summer, wet winter) Hillsides allow drainage, sunlight Coarse, well-drained soil And social factors that determine consumptionWine geography: Wine geography Terroir: how environment shapes wine flavor Soil, sunlight, slope, rainfall, etc. Varies at the vineyard scale Appellation: place-of-origin label Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy, etc. Parmigiana Romano, Stilton, CamembertIntroduction to cultural geography: Introduction to cultural geography Material, social, ideological expressions Spatial distribution of culture traits Folk vs. popular, survival vs. recreation Environmental influence on culture Diffusion and acculturation Food and place identity You do not have the permission to view this presentation. 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class6b Carmina Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINTLite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 244 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: March 11, 2008 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 0 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Class 6b: Intro to Cultural Geography: Class 6b: Intro to Cultural GeographyWhat is culture?: What is culture? Material objects (artifacts) Interpersonal relations (sociofacts) Ideas and beliefs (mentifacts) Each element has a spatial distributionWhat does culture include?: What does culture include? Language Religion Architecture Clothing Food Gender relations Music Agriculture Art Tolerance Education TechnologyArtifacts of culture: Artifacts of culture Survival vs. leisure activities Housing, food, clothing Arts, recreation Folk vs. popular culture Local, homogenous groups Large, heterogeneous groups Environmental influence: Environmental influence Old: environmental determinism Physical environment shapes everything Prone to racist conclusions New: possibilism People are the driving force But environment shapes cultural activity Architecture: Architecture Building materials based on environment Wood in forested areas Brick in hot, dry places Grass or sod on prairies Skins for nomadsSlide7: Syria Dominican Republic Newfoundland NebraskaArchitecture: Architecture House shape may depend on environment Interior courtyards for privacy Open plan for letting in air Tall, narrow to maximize land Steep roofs in snowy areasSlide9: Amsterdam Massachusetts ChinaArchitecture: Architecture House form and orientation as sociofacts Front porches, front stoops Sacred direction, sacred wall Sleeping orientationSlide11: Brooklyn GuyanaSlide12: Poland Yemen KoreaClothing: Clothing Based on climate Warm or cold Wet or dry May reflect occupation/status Also reflect values, traditions Slide14: Samoa Netherlands China Guatemala MoroccoFood: Food Strong part of group identity Demonstrates innovation, diffusion, acculturation, and assimilation Can be part of place identity Back and forth between culture and placeFood: Food Preferences may depend on environment Staple foods: rice, sorghum, maize, wheat Salted meats, fish Fresh vegetables Or genetics (lactose intolerance)Slide18: Food hearths mapAmerican foodways: American foodways Colonial foods (Thanksgiving) Foods diffused back to New World Potatoes to Ireland Tomatoes to Italy Chocolate to Spain Peanut and sweet potato to Africa Mixing of foods (creole)American foodways: American foodways Acculturation (or not) Southern cooking retains strong regional identity African slaves cooked on plantations Less urban influence Anti-North attitudes discouraged American foodways: American foodways More immigrants mean more foods Similar diffusion pattern to place names Anti-immigrant attitudes through dieticians Chili power bad for stomach Common pot unsanitary Pickles unhealthyAmerican foodways: American foodways Towards “fusion cooking” Depression, wars encouraged thriftiness Soldiers ate same food, encountered diversity Middle class: “exotic” foods Melting pot salad bowlSlide23: Vinegar Tomato MustardFood and place identity: Food and place identity Historical connections Deliberate marketing Tourism and place “consumption” Pineapples and Hawaii Lobster and Maine Wine appellations and terroirPineapples and Hawaii: Pineapples and Hawaii Originally South American Plantations since 1800s Dole’s national ad campaign in 1907: Hawaiian pineapple Cheaper to grow in Thailand, Philippines Hawaii focuses on fresh fruit for touristsLobsters and Maine: Lobsters and Maine Originally food for poor, or fertilizer Wealthy New Englanders in 1860s Summering in Maine Imitating the locals Only for wealthy vacationers Now negative symbol for localsWine geography: Wine geography Production based on environmental factors Temperate climate (hot summer, wet winter) Hillsides allow drainage, sunlight Coarse, well-drained soil And social factors that determine consumptionWine geography: Wine geography Terroir: how environment shapes wine flavor Soil, sunlight, slope, rainfall, etc. Varies at the vineyard scale Appellation: place-of-origin label Champagne, Bordeaux, Burgundy, etc. Parmigiana Romano, Stilton, CamembertIntroduction to cultural geography: Introduction to cultural geography Material, social, ideological expressions Spatial distribution of culture traits Folk vs. popular, survival vs. recreation Environmental influence on culture Diffusion and acculturation Food and place identity