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| United Nations economic, social, and cultural organization |
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| a set of distinctive, spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features of a society or a social group, and it encompasses; in addition to art and literature; lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions, and beliefs. |
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| 3 step process of culture |
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1. Habit (repetitive act by an individual)
2. Custom (repetitive act by a group)
3. Culture (a collection of customs) |
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| How are cultures distributed? |
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| Two adjacent cultures sharing a custom |
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| cultural regions that share only a basic element of culture |
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tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture.
"I am the best" and "everyone should be like me" |
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| cultures becoming more alike as they share technology and transportation |
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| attempt to reimbrace the uniqueness and authenticity of "place" |
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| the commodification process of a local artifact leads to __ _______ _ _________ _____ _______ _ _______ __________ |
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| an image of authenticity which amounts to cultural stereotyping |
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| Communication, Transportation and Institution lead to: |
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| Three parts of cultural landscape: |
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1. Arcbetectual forms
2. Signage
3. Transposing landscape ideals from one place to another |
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| group of belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a people |
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| small homogeneous population, rural and cohesive in traits. LABLED as a culure |
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| large, heterogeneous population, typically urban, has quickly changing traits. |
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| group of people in a particular place who SEE THEMSELVES |
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| tangible cultural artifacts |
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the values/ practices/ beliefs of a culture.
NONTANGIBLE cultural traits |
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| trying to mold local culture into popular culture |
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| a practice routinely followed by a group of people |
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| two goals of local cultures: |
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1. Keeping other cultures out.
2. Keeping their own culture in |
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| the process where other cultures adopt traits from another culture and use them for their own benefit. |
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| Why do rural local cultures have an easier time maintaining customs? |
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| True or False. In rural areas, often times, all members of a culture have the same occupation |
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| The Makah American Indians |
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| tried to reinstate the whale hunt |
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Lindsborg, Kansas
began to celebrate their heritage in 1950's |
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| neighborhoods established by an individual culture. Ex. Hasiadic Jews in Brooklyn. |
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| What is the greatest challenge to cultural groups? |
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| The migration of other people into their communities |
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| the process in which items thought to be unsellable become an object that can be bought, sold, or traded. |
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| Creates an "authentic" cultural experience, which is really a simply stereotypical image. |
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| Cultural diffusion spreads outward from a hearth in target pattern. Not necessarily true in modern times, because of tech. and communication. |
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| refers to how interlinked places are in relation to communication and technology |
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| How does popular culture diffuse? |
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| When people within a place produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, making it their own |
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| visible imprint of human activity on the landscape |
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| a word coined by Edward Ralph to describe the loss of uniqueness |
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| what happens at one scale is not imdependant of what happens at other scales |
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| the process in which people at a local scale alter regional, national, and global happenings. |
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| What are the four folk housing regions? |
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| New-England, Mid-Atlantic, Southern Tidewater,and Ranch Style |
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| wood-frame construction,no front porch, 2 stroies. |
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| 2 stories, 1 room deep, 2 rooms wide, stone chimeny was placed where it was functionally best |
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| 1 story, characteristic porch, built on raised stone foundation, fireplace on end, steep roof. |
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| Moved from California to the rest of the US. Single story and open-construction |
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