 |  Introduction to Geography, 8/e Arthur Getis,
San Diego State University
Judith Getis
Jerome D. Fellmann,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Cultural Geography
Objectives:After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:
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Define the components of culture and be able to differentiate between them.
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Explain how interaction of people and their environment helps to define culture and create a cultural landscape.
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Identify the component subsystems of a culture.
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Identify major world cultural hearths and the chief centers of plant and animal domestication.
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Enumerate conditions that both promote and retard diffusion of cultural traits.
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Understand the role of language and religion in cultural identification, cultural change and cultural diffusion.
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Describe the spatial diffusion of the major religions through history and identify which forms of diffusion were dominant under certain historical conditions.
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Define ethnicity and discuss territorial segregation.
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Defend the arguments against race and environmental determinism as valid concepts in the study of cultural geography.
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Understand the role of gender in various societies and discuss how it can be linked to economic development.
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List the major indicators of cultural diversity at the global level and plot their spatial distribution on a map.
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Define culture realm and locate world culture realms on a map.
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education