Unit 1: Nature and
Perspectives
(Chapter 1)
Pattison's Four Traditions - locational, culture-environment,
area-analysis, earth-science
Five Themes - location, human/environmental interaction, region, place,
movement
Absolute/relative location
Region - formal, functional, perceptual (vernacular)
Mental map
Environmental perception
Components of culture - trait, complex
Culture hearth
Cultural landscape
Sequent occupance
Cultural diffusion
Independent invention
Expansion diffusion - contagious, hierarchical, stimulus
Relocation diffusion - migrant
Acculturation
Transculturation
Assimilation
Environmental determinism
Possibilism
Cultural ecology
Holocene epoch (how it transformed the Earth)
Interglaciation
First Agricultural Revolution
Plant domestication
Animal domestication
Social stratification
Culture hearths - Fertile Crescent, Indus Valley, Chang & Yellow River
Valley (China), Nile River Valley and Delta, Meso-America
Unit 2: Population
(Chapters 2-3)
Population density - arithmetic, physiologic
Distribution
Dot map
Major population concentrations - East Asia, South Asia, Europe, North
America, Nile Valley,...
Megalopolis
Population growth - world regions, linear, exponential
Doubling time (70 / rate of increase)
Population explosion
Population structure (composition) - age-sex pyramids
Demography
Natural increase
Crude birth/death rate
Total fertility rate
Infant mortality
Demographic Transition Model - High Stationary, Early Expanding, Late
Expanding, Low Stationary
Stationary Population Level (SPL)
Population theorists - Malthus, Boserup, Marx (as well as the Cornucopian
theory)
Absolute/relative distance
Immigration/emigration
Ernst Ravenstein - "laws" of migration, gravity model
Push/pull factors - catalysts of migration
Distance decay
Step migration
Chain migration
Intervening opportunities
Voluntary/forced migration
Counter migration
Three types of movement - cyclic (activity (action) space, commuting,
seasonal, nomadism), periodic (e.g. military service, migrant workers,
transhumance, college dorms), migratory
International/intranational refugees
Temporary/permanent refugees
United Nations
Population policies - expansive, eugenic, restrictive (case studies-India,
China, Japan)
One-child policy |
Unit 3: Cultural Geography
(Chapters 4-7)
Language
Preliterate societies
Standard language
Dialect
Isoloss
Language - families (e.g., Indo-European), subfamilies, groups
Sound shift
Deep reconstruction
Proto-Indo-European
Language divergence, convergence, replacement
Conquest/agriculture theory
Nostratic
Language diffusion (and hearths)
Modern linguistic mosaic - literacy, technology, political organization
Hispanicization
Esperanto
Lingua franca
Pidgin
Creole (and creolization)
Monolingual/multilingual states
Official language
Toponymy
Language case studies (Quebec, Belgium, Nigeria,...)
Religion
Universalizing
religions - Christianity, Islam, Buddhism
Ethnic religions - Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism (&
Feng Shui),...
Religious origins and routes of diffusion
Syncretic religion
Secularism
Monotheistic/polytheistic religions
Animist religions
Hinduism - karma, Brahman, reincarnation, caste system, untouchables,
polytheistic, temples/shrines
Buddhism -Prince Siddhartha, Buddha, Bodhi tree, Dukkha, Nirvana,
pagodas/shrines
Christianity - Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant (its rise also
correlates with the rise in secularism), Jesus Christ, Bible, cemeteries,
largest bureaucracy, cathedrals/churches
Islam - Sunni, Shiah (Shiite), Muhammad, Allah, Qu'ran, Imam, sharia laws,
Five Pillars, mosques, fastest growing & youngest world religion
Religious regions in U.S. (map)
Interfaith boundary
case studies - Nigeria, Sudan, Kashmir, Armenia/Azerbaijan (and
enclave/exclave), Yugoslavia (and ethnic cleansing)
Intrafaith boundary case studies - Northern Ireland, Switzerland
Fundamentalism
Ayatollah (Iran) Identity
Folk vs. Popular culture
Mass/elite culture
Globalization
Colonization, commodification, distance
decay, time-space compression, reterritorialization, global-local continuum,
placelessness, glocalization ("think globally, act locally")
Race vs. ethnicity
Skin color - melanin, vitamin D
Ethnic island (enclave/neighborhood)
Acculturation, assimilation
Cultural landscape
Cultural appropriation
Neolocalism
Ethnic conflict
Forced vs. residential (affinity) segregation, ethnic claims to territory, ethnic cleansing (e.g., Yugoslavia, Sudan)
Gender gap - effects of modernizaztion
Longevity gap - habits, stress, AIDS
Quality of life
Maternal mortality rate
Infanticide
Dowry deaths |