Human Geo Chapter 4 Review

Name the three Old Order Anabaptist groups who live in North America

Hutterites, Amish, and the Mennonites

How have Anabaptist groups tried to restrict contact with the outside world and keep their culture intact?

Migrated to rural areas to isolate themselves

Know the differences between the Aimsh and Hutterites

The Hutterites accept technology mainly for agriculture, while the Amish do not. Hutterites live on farmsteads and speak archaic German.

What states and provinces do over 425 Hutterite communities exist?

Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, Montana, and Alberta

Which culture is conceived as small, incorporating a homogeneous population, typically rural and cohesive in cultural traits?

folk culture

Which culture includes the things people construct?

material culture

Which is an example of a non-material aspect of culture?

beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values

A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a community and who share experience, customs, and traits are referred to as a what?

local culture

In terms of popular culture of fashion what are the hearths and how is fashion diffused?

London, Milan, Paris, and New York; diffused hierarchaly, meaning it spreads quickly through the interconnected world.

The changes in local culture brought about by the onslaught of popular culture tend to disrupt what?

their customs

Efforts to conserve local cultures often focus on the local what?

customs

Government efforts to discourage native practice and languages in the United States and Canada were attempts to ----- native groups?

assimilate

Buying a Native American styled dream catcher at Wal-Mart store would possibly be an example of what?

cultural appropriation, commodification

Rural local cultures are often dependent on a single economic activity. Customs, beliefs, and artifacts are often intimately bound up with the economic activities. For example, the customs of the Plains Indians in early nineteenth-century North America focused on what?

Bison hunting

How did the Makah of Washington State solidify their culture and reconnect with their past?

whaling

According to the text, how did the Makah have to adjust the old custom of whaling to modern times?

used a .50 caliber rifle instead of harpoons

The building of a sense of community identify around the idea of "Swedich-ness" in Lindsborg, Kansas is an example of what?

neolocalism

Urban local cultures in Brooklyn, New York and North End Boston, Massachusetts are referred to as what?

ethnic neighborhoods

Recently, Puerto Ricans living in Spanish Harlem in New York feel themselves challenged by the influx of Mexican immigrants to the neighborhood. What kind of the threat to an ethnic neighborhood would this be?

other ethnic groups migrating in

One of the challenges to urban ethnic neighborhoods mentioned in the text is?

immigration of the popular culture

Cultural appropriation for purposes of profit (e.g., naming a beer for a Lakota chief) is referred to as an example of what?

commodification

The commodification process of a local custom or artifact oftne leads to the development of an image of "authenticity" which amounts to an example of what?

cultural stereotyping

To draw tourists, Branson, Missouri capitalizes on lacoal culture by precenting itself as being more ------ Ozark culture than any surrounding community.

authentic

The "lost city" located in Sun City, South Africa is a good example of the -------------------of nature.

commodification

In 1830 there were over 290 local breweries in Ireland. The number declined to less than 10 in 1980. Today, Irish beer and prefabricated Irish pubs are marketed to the world by what global brewing corporation?

Guinness Brewing Company of Dublin Ireland

The Irish Pub Co. has designed pubs in many cities on which continents?

North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia

Which continents have either one or no pubs designed by the Irsh Pub Co?

S. America, Antartica, and Africa

Geographer David Harvey refers to the increasing speed which innovations in popular culture diffuse as what?

time-space compression

The growth in the size of the audience of REM and Hootie and the Blowfish in its college band days was the result of what kind of diffusion?

contagious diffusion then hierarchal diffusion

MC Solaar is a popular from what country?

France

Globalized popular culture can be picked up and reproduced by people in the context of their local culture. What is this referred to as?

reterritorialization

Jovanotti "reterritorialized" hip hop to reflect the local cultural context of what country?

Italy

Local "extreme sports" such as skateboarding, rapidly spread by being featured in what?

video games

The text focuses on one local culture which is conspicuous in its attempts to lessen the influence of foreign popular culture by controlling its cultural media outlets and industries. What country does this?

France

What is the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape known as?

cultural landscape

What is the only country in Africa with a building over 700 feet tall?

South Africa

Japan is a hearth of global popular culture that influences North America in what area?

animated films

The Dave Matthews Band established a ------ in Charlottesville, Virginia and gained popularity through ------ among college towns.

hearth; hierarchal diffusion

According to E. Relph, the term which best captures the quality of the American landscape which is associated with the spread of popular culture is called what?

placelessness

What is cultural landscape convergence?

?

Fred Kniffen's map of folk-housing regions does not show the eastward diffusion of a housing style that can be found almost everywhere today. What is the housing style?

the Ranch House

A group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share customs and traits are referred to as a what?

local culture

Popular cultures can change rapidly in periods as short as days or even hours because of what?

modern media and technology

Notting Hill Festival (London) was appropriated by West Indian migrants to express their cultural distinctiveness. This is an example of what?

commodification

Commodification of local culture often leads to ----- images of that culture.

stereotypical

Hip Hop music can be found in places such as Indonesia, Italy, Egypt, Turkey, and France, in localized versions. This is an example of what?

reterritorialization

Do you think the rise of NASCAR from a regional Southern sport to its national prominence on television and advertising has affected its status as a local cultural phenomena?

yes because it's not just in the South anymore