Cultural Geography
Dave Howell

Unit 1
Reading Assignment
Chapters 2, 3, 7, 5, 6

Terms from the Readings and Lectures

geography cultural geography culture map diffusion hunter-gatherer cultural hearths environmental determinism possibilism cultural landscape acculturation demography birth rate death rate Law of 70 infant mortality rate life expectancy population pyramid Thomas Malthus migration emigration immigration push-pull factors networks guest workers race nationality ethnicity ethnocentrism acculturation

assimilation apartheid language language family dialect standard language vernacular pidgin creole lingua franca religion universalizing religions ethnic religions tribal animism secularism monotheism polytheism Hinduism Caste System Buddhism Judaism Zionism Christianity Islam Shiite Sunni Sharia Hajj Six Day War