Cultural Geography

1. Culture

2. Culture is like an iceberg…

3. Elements of Culture

4. Culture
 Knowledge
 Language
 Values
 Customs
 Material Objects
 Learned
 “Enculturation”
 Shared
 Patterned
 Mutually Constructed
 Symbolic
 Arbitrary
 Internalized

5. How Culture Began
 Formed around cultural hearths
 Iraq Mesopotamia
 Egypt Nile River
 India Indus River
 China Huang He River

6. How Culture Began
 Agriculture  Surplus  Settlement
 Civilization – highly organized, city-based societies
with advanced knowledge of farming, trade,
government, art, & science
 Specialized labor
 Industrial Revolution, Informational Revolution

7. Internal Forces External Forces
 Culture changes
evolution
 Technology is the key
 Diffusion – spreading
 Acculturation – adopting
 Assimilation
 Integration
 Separation
 Marginalization
How Does Culture Change?

8. Cultural Regions

9. Why is Culture Important?