Chapter 4 and 6 (Packet) Flashcards
(8 cards)
What questions does “culture” ask/answer?
Where we come from? and Who we are?
Culture is divided into 3 groups. What is meant by each of the following? Give a concrete example of each.
- Mentifacts - The belief in one god
- Artifacts - Fire arms and any other kinds of weapons
- Sociofacts - Single parent or one parent home
How can a landscape affect a culture? (Produce a concrete example)
It can affect how the people find stuff and what they have to do to survive; altering something/ a place for survival
What was the hippocratic view of environmental determinism?
Climates will produce different types of people
How can we see social and political power displayed into cultural landscapes?
More bad/loud/disrupting things are built in poorer places than in nicer places.
How does the phrase “The English-Speaking World” represents a “cultural region”?
There will be color everywhere since there are English speaking people all over the world for various reasons
What does the world “folk” imply, with regard to culture, in one word?
Traditional