1. Culture Week 2

2. AIM: How does the environment shape culture?
Do Now (11/23): How does the geography of NYC shape housing practices? What do you think houses are like in the rural south?
SWBAT
Define cultural landscape
Describe how the environment shapes housing and food decisions
Identify the main styles of housing within the US

3. Cultural Landscape
Cultural Landscape: the visible human impact on the landscape
Consider…
How have people changed the landscape?
What buildings, statues, and so forth have they erected?
How do landscapes reflect the values of a culture?

4. terraced rice fields in Vietnam
Neighborhood canal in Venice, Italy
Predjama Castle (Slovenia) built into the mountainside

5. Food Preferences
Food preferences depend on what it suitable for that particular region
Ex:
Asia: rice grown in milder/moister regions, while wheat is grown in colder/drier regions
Northern Europe: abundance of wood encourages slow stewing/roasting of food over flame
Provides food and warmth

6. Food Taboos Product of environmental and social concerns
Q: What are some well known food taboos?
A: Pork- Jews and Muslims; Cow-Hindus

7. Pork Taboos: Environmental
Pigs more suited for sedentary farming; spoils quickly
As a result banned by Rabbis in pastoral nomadic Jewish communities
Pigs unsuited for dry lands of Arabian Peninsula
Would compete for resources without contributing benefits
Banned by Muslims

8. Cow Taboo
Cows produce oxen, the traditional source of pulling plows/carts in India
India fields must be plowed regularly
Religious sanctions keep the cow population high

9. Folk Housing 3 Main Types in the US
New England
Mid Atlantic
Tidewater
Folk houses are old and increasingly rare
Take into consideration environment and social needs

10. New England Kitchen placed in the center to provide heat
Large: need to do activities indoor
Types of Houses
Saltbox
Two Chimney
Cape Cod
Front Wing and Gable

11. Saltbox Houses

12. Two Chimney

13. Cape Cod

14. Colonial Cape Cod

15. Mid-Atlantic Central Hallway
Popular house to build during Westward Expansion
Type of house: I-House
Called I House for it’s prevalence in Indiana, Idaho, and Illinois

16. I-House

18. Tidewater Kitchen often in the basement/lower level to keep cool
Often one story (will evolve into ranch style)
Steep roof
Sometimes on stilts
Porches

21. Shotgun Case Study