Exam 5: Cultural Geographies

Who was the nineteenth-century author of the book The Earth as Modified by Human Action,which influenced Carl Sauer in his development of the concept of cultural landscape?

-The capital of Peru is

Use Chinatowns and cultural parades as examples in an essay about ethnicity,space,and place.

The combination of traits characteristic of a particular group is known as a cultural complex.Briefly describe aspects of the cultural complex related to the group you identify with the most.

Coming of age ceremonies - marking the transition from childhood into adulthood - are examples of

Around the world,indigenous languages are disappearing faster than new languages are emerging.

The establishment of official languages contributes to the extinction of languages.

ANT and NRT help us recognize the force and intensity that material objects have in the world.

Hip-hop is a good example of folk culture.

Match the example to the term or phrase. There is one best set of answers. -cultural system

Match the religion to the approximate time of its emergence. -Buddhism

The most spoken Aboriginal language in Canada is

The world's four major world religions

On world maps of religion like the one in our text,Quebec,Canada is represented almost uniformly as

Confirmation of 12-year-old boys and girls in the Roman Catholic Church is best described as a

Vidal de la Blache emphasized the need to study small,homogeneous geographical areas.

Diasporas

Pork avoidance among Muslims,eating fish on Fridays among Roman Catholics,bar mitzvahs among Jews and eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day in the U.S.South are all

A materialist approach is about attempting to understand the ways that specific properties of material things affect the ________ between humans and nonhuman entities.

Briefly explain how a shopping mall could be considered a materialistic space.