Chapter 7 Study Guide: Cultural Identities and Cultural Landscapes
1. Why would the book in the first paragraph say the mall is hell?
2. The material and nonmaterial aspects of daily life preserved by small, local groups isolated from the mainstream
currents of the larger society around them.
3. For the geographer what is the world composed of?
Folk Culture
4. What may cause the eventual extinction of folk culture?
5. The popular or mass culture that now so totally dominates modern life is a product of _________ and ________.
6. The tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific culture group and reflective of their
traditions, lifestyles, and technologies.
7. The oral traditions, songs, and stories of a culture group along with its beliefs and customary behaviors.
8. According to Figure 7.2 where have the Amish diffused from?
9. What type of diffusion brought European culture to the East Coast of the U.S.?
10. What is figure 7.5 showing?
11. What European groups influenced the Middle Atlantic area and the Delaware River hearth?
12. The body of traditional practices, usages, and conventions that regulate social life.
13. Why was traditional folk culture retained longer in the Upland South when it had been lost in other regions?
Folk Food and Drink Preferences
14. What is a folk food?
15. What type of food is kimch’i?
16. What are some foods adopted from Amerindians?
17. What alcohol became a deeply rooted folk custom integral to the subsistence economy?
18. Untaxed liquor in unlicensed stills:
Folk Music skip
19. Popular Culture and National Uniformities
20. In the early 20th century, rural America was a mosaic of unique regional_____________.
21. What did the automobile, radio, motion pictures, and a national press begin to do in America?
22. In your own words how can popular culture liberate people?
23. The constantly changing mix of material and nonmaterial culture traits available through mass production and
the mass media to an urbanized, heterogeneous, nontraditional society.
24. Popular culture becomes dominant with mixing of cultures that force both ethnic and folk communities to become
part of a larger ________________ society.
National Uniformities and Globalization
25. What replaces diversity in popular culture?
26. The loss of locally distinctive characteristics and identity and replacement by standardized landscapes.
27. What do some people feel popular culture destroys?
28. In what areas has popular culture expanded opportunities in?
Popular Food and Drink
29. What does it mean “coffee has a distinct geography”?
30. Where was coffee first domesticated?
31. What type of diffusion has spread Starbucks?
32. The adaptation of globalized products to local tastes and contexts.
33. a social movement advocating a return to local products, locally owned businesses, and locally controlled
institutions in reactions against mass popular culture and globalization.
Popular Music and Dance
34. Where is Cajun music from? Tejano? Reggae? Hip Hop?
35. What type of rap developed in Compton (brown box)?
36. According to figure 7.15, where are country music radio stations most heavily concentrated?
Reactions against Globalized Popular Regions
37. What countries impose pervasive internet surveillance and censorship?
38. What do critics of Western culture argue it brings?
Regional Differences and Culture Regions
39. A perceptual region defined informally by inhabitants of a cultural group, usually with a popularly given or
accepted nickname.
40. What is the point of showing the two maps on page 218?
41. What is the core, domain, and sphere?
Be ready for a quiz on figure 7.19. A word bank will be provided.
Cultural landscapes
42. The natural landscape as modified by human activities and bearing the imprint of a culture group or society; the
built environment.
43. What do everyday landscapes off the savvy observer insights into?
44. The use and modification of the cultural landscape by successive cultural groups, reflecting differing cultural
values, technologies, and social relations.
45. Originally a reused leather document with visible traces of previous writing. In cultural geography, the landscape
may be viewed as a palimpsest containing evidence of previous cultures and previous land uses.
46. What do elite landscapes communicate?
47. Look at the pictures on p. 222 and read the captions. Which picture is placeless and why?
Land survey systems
48. A system of property description and surveying using natural features to trace and define the boundaries of
individual parcels.
49. A survey system that superimposes a rectangular grid upon the land than using natural features to describe and
divide land.
50. A survey system that divides land into long, narrow strips extending back from a river or road, found in areas
settled by French colonists.
Settlement Patterns skip
Houses
51. An indigenous style of building constructed of native materials to traditional plan.
52. What housing was well adapted to the needs and materials of nomadic herdsmen of the Asian grasslands?
53. According to figure 7.26, What did Native American housing types reflect?
National Housing Styles
54. What has popular culture done to tastes in clothes, food drink, music dance and national house styles?
55. What happened as cars became the normal mode of transportation and the cost of distance dropped?
56. What type of house came became the most popular house built in the U.S. during the 50s and 60?
Always look at and read the figures
Building Styles Around the World
57. What are houses typically made of in Scandinavia? Britain?
58. What can be said the construction of large apartments, offices, or civic buildings from country to country?
59. What type of architecture has diffused around the world using industrial materials of glass, steel, and concrete?
Landscapes of Consumption: The shopping Mall
60. What is the most prominent landscape expression of our commodity driven popular culture?
61. Most malls are pretty much the same. What do we call this in geography?
62. A form of marketing analysis that uses GIS to infer demographic and lifestyle characteristics of potential
consumers according to their residential location.
63. What 4 cities are the hearths of fashion?
64. Popular culture is, above all ______________ culture, a market success by one producer is instantly copied.
65. What has often been the consequence of regional shopping malls with regards to Main Street stores?
66. Give an example of a “new shopping town” near Walnut.
67. Built environments designed to suggest or simulate a distinctive place, created to attract visitors by allowing
them to fantasize about being in different times, places, and events.
68. How are lifestyle centers different from malls?
Heritage Landscapes
69. Landscape strongly associated with the history of a particular cultural group.
70. What is the difference between national parks and sites on the World Heritage List?
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