Study Guide for Exam 2

Geography 1040: Cultural Geography

The

following list is not a comprehensive list of material covered in th

e textbo

ok, PowerPoints

,

and PowerPoint Guides

, but, these are the topi

cs test questions will be about. For each t

opic

listed, study

what your

te xtbook and PowerPoints

say about it. K

now the concepts and terms and

the examples given in the book and PowerPoints

Chapter 4 (culture)

:

House types; folk and popular culture

; globalization and popular culture landscapes; cultural

landscapes; Amish; neolocalism; sports; food; terroir; cultural trait; material/nonmaterial

practices of culture; geography’s relationship with culture; placele

ssness or “geography of

nowhere.

”

Chapter

6 (religion)

:

Hearth areas, diffusion, branches,

and current s

patial distributions of four major world religions;

Shintoism; spatial distribution of U.S. religions (also maps comparing their distribution to U.S.

metro and outside metro/micro populations); how religions organize themselves spatially

(hierarchical and locally autonomous systems)

; ethnic and universalizing religions; sacred

spaces; Jerusalem

as contested religious sacred space;

Latter

-day Saint diaspora.

Chapter

7 (ethnicity)

and Chapter 8, Section 4

:

Nation

-state; multinational state; stateless nation; spatial distribution of U.S. ethnicities/races

(Hispanic, black, Asian); ethnic enclaves; ethnoburbs; African

-American migrations; ethnic

cleansing; g

enocide; ethnicity issues in former Yugoslavia (particularly Bosnia Herzegovina and

Kosovo), former Soviet Union (particularly Russia and Georgia), and Sudan (

particularly,

Darfur)

.