Human Geography

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culture

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is a shared set of meanings that is lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life

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cultural geography

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foces on the way space, place and landscaped shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space, place and landscape

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folk culture

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traditional practices of small groups, especially rural people with a simple lifestyle who are seen to be homogeneous in their belief systems and practices

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popular culture

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practices and meaning systmes produced by large groups of people whose norms and tastes are often heterogeneous and change frequently, oftgen in response to commericial products.

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cultural landscape

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a characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group- with its own practices, preferences, values and aspirations-and its natural environment

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historical geography

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geography of the past

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genre de vie

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functionally organized way of life that is seen to be characteristic of a particular cultural group

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cultural trait

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a single aspect of the complex of routine practices that constitute a particulare cultural group.

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rites of passage

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acts, customs, practices or procedures that recognize key transitions in human life-birth, menstruation, and other marker of adulthood such as sexual awakening and marriage

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cultural complex

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combination of traits characteristic of a particular group

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cultural region

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is an area where certain cultural practices, beliefs or values are more or less practiced by the majority of the inhabitants

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cultural system

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traits, territorial affiliation and shared history as well as other more complex elements, such as language and religion

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religion

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a belief system and a set of practices that recognize the existence of a power higher than humankind

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diaspora

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spatial dispersion of a previously homogeneous group

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Islam

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Arabic term means submission specifically submission to Gods will

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Muslim

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member of the community of believers whose duty is obedience and submission to Gods will

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Language

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way of communicating ideas or felling by means of a conventionalized system of signs, gestures, marks or articulate vocal sounds.

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dialects

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regional variations in standard languages

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language family

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is a collecgtion of individual languages believed to be related in their prehistorical origin

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language branch

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collecgtions of languages that possesses a definite common origin but has split into individual languages

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language group

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collection of several individual languages that is part of a language branch, shares a common origin in the recent past, and has relativily similar grammar and vocabulary

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cultural hearths

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geographic origins or sources of innovations,ideas or ideologies

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kinship

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relationship based on blood, marriage or adoption

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tribe

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form of social identity created by groups who share a set of ideas about collective loyalty and political action

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cultural nationalism

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effort to protect regional and national cultures from the homogenizing impact of globalization

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Islamism

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an anticolonial, anti-imperial political movenment

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sexuality

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practices and identities that a given culture considers related to each other and to those thing is considers sex acts and desires

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ethnicity

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socially created system of rules about who belongs to a particular group based upon actual and perceived commonalitites, such as language and religion

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race

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problematic classification of human beings based on skin color and other physical characteristics

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racialization

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practice of creating unequal castes based onthe norm of whiteness

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hybridity

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a mixing of different types: in culture hybridity is most often associated with movements across a binary of, for instance, the racial catergories of black and white such that identities are more multiple and ambivalent

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actor-network theory

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an orientation that views the world as composed of "heterogeneous things" including humans and nonhumans and objects

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non-representational theory

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understands that human life as a process that is always unfolding, always becoming something different, even if only slightly so

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affect

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emotions that are embodied reactions to the social and physical environment-also the power of these emotions to result in or enable actions

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materialism

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emphasizes that the material world-its objects and nonhuman entities- is at least partly separate from humans and possesses the power to affect humans

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world music

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the musical genre defined largely by the surge of non Enlgish language recordings released in the United Kindom and the United States during the 1980s