Unit 3 list 1

Judaism

Worship in synagogues or temples. Spread throughout The world because of exile or persecution or voluntary migration. This gathering is also known as the diaspora. Diaspora occurs when one group of people is dispersed to various locations. Synagogues vary in size based on numbers of followers in an area. Burial of the dead customarily occurs before sundown on the day following the death.

Culture

All of a groups learned behaviors, actions, and objects are a part of ——

Neo-localism

As a result of global culture and exchanging occupancy patterns, the ideas, the traditions, and history of communities, Road. The uniqueness and authenticity of a place or the process of reading racing is known as

Groups members might choose to live

Close to each other for cultural reasons. This is often true of immigrants for some religious groups. Some ethnic clusters have specific needs requiring special funding, such as funds to help preserve the distinctive architecture or to provide English training.

Sequent occupancy

Ethnic groups move in and out of the neighborhood and create a new cultural imprints on the landscape in the process geographers call

Urban ethnic neighborhoods

Ethnic neighborhoods in urban settings are often occupied by migrants who settle in charge of groups to form space. The charter group has already shaped much of the landscape. But new arrivals create their own influence as well

Hinduism

Hindu temples often have elaborately carved exteriors with multiple manifestations of deities or significant characters. Thousands of shrines and temples dot the landscape in India since devout Hindus believe the construction of these relgious structures will reflect well on them. Sacred sites such as the Ganges river provide pilgrims a place to bathe for the purpose of purification. Many hindu shrines and temples are located near rivers and streams for this very purpose

Islam

In places where Islam is widely practiced, the mask is the most prominent structure on the landscape and is usually located in the center of the town. Masks have dumb surrounded by a few minarets from which daily prayer is called. Burial of the dead is to be done as soon as possible and burials are in cemeteries.

Ethnic islands

In rural areas, ethnic concentrations form ethnic islands. Their cultural imprints revolve around housing types and agricultural dwellings that reflect their heritage.

Traditional culture

Recently the meanings of traditional, folk and indigenous culture have begun to merge causing geographers to debate when each should be used. Used to encompass all three cultural designations.

Shinto

Shinto whose cultural hearth is Japan emphasizes on one's ancestors and the relationship between people and nature. One common landscape feature of the Shinto shrines is an impressive gateway, or torii to mark the transition from outside world to sacred place

Globalization

Specifically refers to the increased integration of the world economy since the 1970s. The process of intensified interaction among peoples, governments and companies of different countries around the globe has had profound impacts on culture

culture hearth

The area in which unique culture or a specific trait develops

Folk culture

The beliefs and practices of small, homogeneous groups of people, often living in rural areas that are relatively isolated and slow to change. They demonstrate ways that people have adapted to a physical environment.

mentifact

The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc.

Charter group

The first group to establish culture and religious customs in space is known as

Buddism

The practice of this varies widely. Most emphasize meditating and living in harmony with nature. The features are representede in STUPAS. They are structure to store jmportant relics. Were often built to symbolize the five aspects of natrue, earth, water, fire and air and space. Pagodas are also a common architecture style that developed from stupas, but unlike stupas they are used as temples and people can enter into larger pagodas. Often meditate near both sacred spaces.

Cultural traits

a particular group's individual skills, customs, and ways of doing things. Elements, visible and invisible

cultural complex

a series of interrelated traits such as the process of steps and acceptable behaviors related to greeting a person in different cultures

cultural landscape

also known as built environment, is the modification of the environment by a group and is a visible reflection of that groups cultural beliefs and values

Taboos

behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture

Christianity

churches often feature a tall steeple topped with a cross, as they beleive Jesus has resurrected after dying on a cross. The hearths of that faith are more likely to resemble modern architetcure. Christians bury the dead in cemeteries although types of cemeteries might vary greatly. Most burials are underground but in New Orleans where the water table is high. cemeteries are above ground

nonmaterial culture

consists of intangable concepts or those not having physical presence. Beliefs, values, practices, and aesthetics, determine what a cultural group views as acceptable and desirable

Material culture

consists of the physical or tangible creations that members of a society make, use, and share. Art, food, sports, and housing types are all tangible elements in culture.

Popular culture

cultural traits such as clothing, music, movies, and types of businesses spread quickly over a large area and are adopted by various groups, they become popular culture.

Postmodern Architecture

developed after the 1960s. It is a movement away from boxy, mostly concrete or brick structures toward high rise structures made from large amounts of steel and glass siding.

Contemporary Architecture

during the 21st century. emerged as an extension of postmodern architecture. this style uses multiple advances to create buildings that rotate, curve, and stretch limits of size and height

global culture

elements that can be quickly adopted worldwide

Artifacts

object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced

Ethnicity

refers to membership within a group of people who have common experiences, and share similar characteristics such as asenstry, langauge, customs, and history

traditional architecture

style reflects a local culture's history, beliefs, values, and community adaptations to the environment, and typically utilizes locally available materials. Usually built with the utility to people and community at a central focus

Placelessness

the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks like the next

ethnic enclave

the nrighborhood or subregional scale of the cultural landscape might include this. Clusters of people of the same culture, that are often surrounded by people of the dominant culture in the region. Sometimes reflect the desire of people to remain apart from a larger society.

built environment

the physical artifacts that humans have created and that form part of the landscape

Diffuse

to spread or scatter freely or widely

Sociofact

ways people organize society/relate to each other (institutions--political, Social, Economic)

Indigenous culture

when members of an ethnic group reside in their ancestral lands, and typically possess unique cultural traits, such as speaking their own exclusive language. Some might be displaced from their native lands but still practice it.