1. Chapter 4 review

2. Chapter 4
Culture- A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including learned features such as language; ideology, technology, behavior and government

3. Types of Culture Local- collective community with a unique culture
Popular- heterogeneous, always changing, everywhere.
Folk- homogeneous, isolated, traditional

4. Assimilation- the process in which immigrants become totally integrated into the host culture.
Placelessness- loss of uniqueness in the landscape. One place looks like the next.

5. Types of Culture Material Culture
The things a group of people construct, such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food.
Nonmaterial Culture The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.

6. What Stops Diffusion
Cultural barriers- occur in society to keep cultural traits from spreading. Ex. Islam forbids alcohol

7. Commodification
Taking an object that couldn’t be bought and sold and making it into a commodity that can be bought and sold.

8. Authenticity
How true to the culture is this commodity?

9. Diffusion
With Distance Decay, the likelihood of diffusion decreases as time and distance from the hearth increases
With Time-Space Compression, the likelihood of diffusion depends upon the connectedness among places.

10. Cultural Landscape The visible human imprint on the landscape.
How have people changed the landscape?