Guided Reading Chapter 4 – 1st Half
Balancing Two Worlds
1. Where is the author at?
2. Who are the Hutterites?
3. What do Anabaptists believe?
4. Why did this group come to North America in the 1800’s?
5. Where do the Hutterites live in North America?
6. How do the Hutterites differ from the Amish?
7. What does moving to the husband’s colony do to the wormen?
8. How do Hutterites make a living?
What are Local and Popular Cultures?
9. What elements make up a culture?
10. What is folk culture? 11. What is pop culture?
12. What is local culture?
13. How do local cultures redefine themselves and affect places?
14. Describe material culture.
15. Explain nonmaterial culture.
16. Does local culture change quickly? Can pop culture change quickly?
17. What is a culture hearth?
18. Explain hierarchical diffusion.
How Are Local Cultures Sustained?
19. Who are indigenous people?
20. How did the U.S. try to assimilate people from the 1800’ – 1900’s? 21. Why did teachers punish tribal students?
22. How did the U.S. government award Indians who had assimilated?
23. What are American Indians doing today?
24. How are local cultures sustained?
25. Define custom.
26. What are 2 goals of local cultures?
27. Why would a local culture want to keep other cultures out?
28. What is cultural appropriation?
29. Why would local cultures want to avoid cultural appropriation?
30. Why would local cultures want to keep pop culture out?
31. How do members of local cultures reinforce their culture and beliefs? 32. Why do rural local cultures have an easier time maintaining their culture?
33. Rurality allows local cultures to define their own ______and create their own ______.
34. Economic activity can be such a focus of daily life that ______are tied to it.
35. What did the Makah Indians do?
36. Why did the Makah want to do this?
37. Why were the Makah opposed in what they wanted to do? Guided Reading Chapter 4 – 2nd Half
How is Pop Culture Diffused?
1. Why has the pace of diffusion quickened in late 20th and the 21st centuries?
2. Why has the spatial extent of diffusion expanded?
3. Explain distance decay.
4. Explain time-space compression.
5. Places that lack transportation and communications technologies are now farther away and apart from the ______than ever.
6. A hearth begins with ______.
7. How did the music of the Phish diffuse?
8. Certain corporations such as Viacom, the parent company of MTV, generate and produce ______…….
9. How does MTV produce pop culture?
10. Who makes up the main demographic for innovations in pop culture? 11. How are MTV and other marketing companies creating what is “cool”?
12. Explain the triangle Sharon Lee talks about on p.113. (in italics)
13. What is reterritotialization?
14. How did Hip Hop change in Southeast Asia?
15. What were Hip Hop artists writing about in the U.S. in the 80’s and 90’s? What were they writing about in France?
16. What transportation advances helped baseball to diffuse widely?
17. How does Wheaties contribute to pop culture?
18. How did alternative sports get into pop culture?
19. How did skateboarding become so popular? How did skateboarding stop being an alternative sport?
20. What is cultural assimilation?
21. The influence of Europe, the U.S., and Japan in global popular culture makes many people feel threatened by ______.
22. What did the French government do to stop too much American and British music? 23 Geographer realize that local cultures will ______, ______, and ______the influx of popular culture.
How Can Local and Popular Cultures be Seen in the Cultural Landscape?
24. Explain what is meant by cultural landscape?
25. What kinds of things are included in the human imprint?
26. What is placelessness?
27. What are three dimensions of convergence of cultural landscapes?
28. Give an example of question 4 #1.
29. How does signage imprint cultural landscapes?
30. What landscape ideals are in place at Mainstreet, U.S.A., Disneyworld? (Think of how it looks and explain why it was made to look that way.)
31. Explain the global-local continuum concept.
32. Regarding housing types, when people migrate what do they take with them?
33. What is a folk housing region? 34. Why were fireplaces in different parts of the home in New England as opposed to the Middle Atlantic style?
35. Why were Southern homes often built on a raised platform?
36. Describe the 3 types of housing diffusion in figure 4.19.