"Culture geography is a subfield within human geography."
Studies the impact of culture on the Earth's surface, including issues related to ethnicity, language, and religion.
Culture: The shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a group or society.
Cultural Landscape: The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.
Religion: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.
Language: A system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar used by a particular group or people.
Ethnicity: A social group that shares a common culture, ancestry, and history.
Race: A group of people who are perceived to share distinct physical characteristics such as skin color, eye shape or hair texture.
Colonization: The act of one country taking control of another country, territory or region, typically for economic gain.
Globalization: The spread of economic, political, and cultural systems across the globe, resulting in increased interconnectedness and interdependence.
Nationalism: The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance.
Gender: The socially constructed roles and expectations associated with being male or female.
Migration: The movement of people from one place to another, often for economic, social, or political reasons.
Tourism: Travel for recreational or leisure purposes.
Foodways: The cultural, social, and economic practices surrounding the production, distribution, and consumption of food.
Media: The various forms of communication that reach large numbers of people, such as television, newspapers, and the internet.
"Cultural geography emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century."
"This was led by the 'father of cultural geography' Carl O. Sauer of the University of California, Berkeley."
"As a result, cultural geography was long dominated by American writers."
"Geographers drawing on this tradition see cultures and societies as developing out of their local landscapes but also shaping those landscapes."
"This interaction between the natural landscape and humans creates the cultural landscape."
"...drawn from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, literary theory, and feminism."
"No single definition of culture dominates within cultural geography."
"...geographers wholeheartedly reject theories that treat culture as if it took place 'on the head of a pin'."
"Though the first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo..."
"Rather than studying pre-determined regions based upon environmental classifications, cultural geography became interested in cultural landscapes."
"...more nuanced and complex concepts of culture, drawn from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, literary theory, and feminism."
"cultures and societies as developing out of their local landscapes but also shaping those landscapes."
"...cultural geography became interested in cultural landscapes."
"This interaction between the natural landscape and humans creates the cultural landscape."
"geographers wholeheartedly reject theories that treat culture as if it took place 'on the head of a pin'."
"No single definition of culture dominates within cultural geography."
"As a result, cultural geography was long dominated by American writers."
"But has been augmented over the past forty years with more nuanced and complex concepts of culture..."
"...ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo."