1. Chapter 5 Lecture
Human Geography: Places and
Regions in Global Context
Sixth Edition
Cultural Geographies
Wendy A. Mitteager
State University of New York, Oneonta

2. Key Concepts
• Cultural Geography
• Cultural Complexes
• Cultural Regions
• Cultural Systems
• Diaspora
• Cultural Hearths
• Identity
• Americanization Figure 5.1 Maori men with traditional tattoos
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3. Culture as a Geographical Process
• Complex concept • Cultural geography
• Shared set of – Space, place, and
meanings landscape
– Ongoing process
• Globalization impacts
culture • Folk culture
• Popular culture
Figure 5.2 Road accident memorial
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4. The Culture of Hip-Hop
Figure 5.A Sources and diffusion of U.S. rap
Figure 5.B Internationally
successful rapper, Nicki
Minaj
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5. Cultural Complexes
• Carl Sauer
• Cultural landscape
• Historical geography
• Genre de vie
• Cultural traits
• Rites of passage
• Cultural region
Figure 5.3 Cultural landscape in Kenya
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6. Cultural Complexes, (cont'd)
Figure 5.4 Sauer's cultural landscape, summarized
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7. Cultural Complexes, (cont'd)
Figure 5.8 A coming-of-age ceremony
Figure 5.6 A cultural trait of mature in South Korea is a rite of passage
Tuareg men in Niger based on age
Apply your knowledge: Identify traits characteristic of
your cultural group
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8. Cultural Complexes, (cont'd)
Figure 5.9 Cultural regions based on religion in the U.S.
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9. Cultural Systems
Figure 5.11 The world's four major
religions: origins and diaspora Figure 5.13 The spread of
Christianity
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10. Cultural Systems, (cont'd)
Figure 5.10 World distribution of major religions
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11. Cultural Systems, (cont'd)
• Religious groups
• Religion and globalization
Figure 5.15 Tibetan monks protest in
Nepal Figure 5.16 Megachurch in Illinois
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12. Cultural Systems, (cont'd)
• Language • Kinship
• Dialects • Tribe
• Language family, • Cultural nationalism
branch, and group • Islamism
• Cultural hearth
Apply your knowledge: Identify different dialects of
American English. On a map identify, where these dialects
are spoken and consider these regions in terms of culture
and power. Do certain dialects have different cultural
power?
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13. Cultural Systems, (cont'd)
Figure 5.17 World distribution of major languages
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14. Cultural Systems, (cont'd)
Figure 5.18 India's linguistic landscape is
complex with hundreds of distinct
languages in use
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15. Cultural Systems, (cont'd)
[Insert Figure 5.22]
Just include the 2003 map
Figure 5.22 World distribution of TV sets
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16. Cultural Systems, (cont'd)
Figure 5.23 The broad reach of Muslim cultural, colonial, and trade
activities.
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17. Culture and Identity
• Sexuality
• Ethnicity
• Race and Racialization
• Gender
• Hybridity
Figure 5.24 Gay pride
parade in Brazil
Apply your knowledge: Investigate ethnicity and
territory by mapping out your city's places of worship.
What does the distribution tell you about the local ethnic
geography?
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18. Culture and Identity, (cont'd)
Figure 5.C Islamic veiling fashion is highly variable
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19. Culture and Identity, (cont'd)
Figure 5.26 Chinatown, San Francisco:
Figure 5.27 Indian women in the informal voluntarily chosen by immigrants or a
sector place of exclusion and racism?
Apply your knowledge: What are the gender
constructions in your culture? What are gender
constructions in other cultures?
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20. Emergent Cultural Geographies
• Actor-network theory
(ANT)
• Non-representational
theory (NRT)
– Ben Anderson
• Materialism
Figure 5.28 Family watching TV in China
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21. Globalization and Cultural Change
• Americanization
• A global culture?
• World music
• Global film industry
Figure 5.30 Nollywood film industry centered
in Nigeria
Apply your knowledge: What films are available in your
local video store (or the web) from Indian or Nigerian
production companies? How do the issues in the films
reflect culture?
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22. Geographies of Protest and Care
Figure 5.D The 2011 Wisconsin Protests
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23. Future Geographies
Figure 5.31 UNESCO world heritage sites: 936 properties considered to have
outstanding universal value
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24. End of Chapter 5
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