Readings

  •     TOPICS     REQUIRED TEXTBOOK     SUPPLEMENTAL READER
    1.     Course Introduction   None   None
    2.   Themes in Cultural Geog.   Ch 1   Culture, pp 15-19
    Thick Description, pp 29-39
    Concept of Culture, pp 40-49
    Beyond Culture, pp 60-67
    Morphology of Landscape, pp 96-104
    Process, pp 113-122
    The Word Itself, pp 153-158
    Nature, pp 207-211
    3.   Setting the Scene:
    The Physical Base for Culture    		   Ch 1   Culture from Volkerkunde, pp 83-89
    Physiogamy of France, pp 90-95
    Creating a Second Nature, pp 212-291
    4.   Folk and Popular Cultures   Ch 2   Community, pp 20-28
    Looking at Landscape, pp 171-175
    Geography is Everywhere, pp 176-185
    Reconfiguring Site and Horizon, pp 194-200
    Nature at Home, pp 226-231
    Human-Animal Divide, pp 241-249
    Destination Museum, pp 448-456
    5.   The Human Basis of Culture –
    Population    		   Ch 3   National Geographic-The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity, pp 275-282
    Traveling Cultures, pp 318-324
    The Production of Mobility, pp 325-333
    On Not Excluding Half the Humans in Human
    Geography, pp 365-372

    6.   The Human Basis of Culture –
    Population    		        
    7.   EXAM I                           REVIEW CLASS NOTES and READING ASSIGNMENTS
    8.   The Human Basis of Culture –
    Language    		   Ch 4    
    9.   The Human Basis of Culture –
    Ethnicity    		   Ch 5   Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination, pp 373-379
    Mapping the Pure and Defiled, pp 380-387
    10.   Human Control –
    The Politics of Culture    		   Ch 6   The Idea of German Culture in the Third Reich, pp 123-129
    Search for Common Ground, pp 130-137
    Back to the Land, pp 138-145
    Imperial Landscape, pp 165-170
    No Place Like Heimat - Images of the Home(land), pp 297-303
    11.   The Human Basis of Culture –
    Religion    		   Ch 7    
    12.   Travel and Tourism   None   The Tourist Home, pp 343-350
    Destination Museum, pp 448-456
    13.   Agriculture   Ch 8   California: The Beautiful and The Damned, pp 159-164
    Orchard, pp 232-240
    14.   Economic Development   Ch 9   Economic Development and the Landscape, pp 105-112
    A Global Sense of Place, pp 257-263
    New Cultures for Old? pp 264-274
    Culture Sits in Places: Globalization/Localization, pp 287-295
    Commercial Cultures: Transcending the Cultural and Economic, pp 413-421
    The Expediency of Culture, pp 422-430
    15.   Urbanization   Ch 10     The Invention of Regional Culture, pp 439-447
    16.   Urban Landscapes   Ch 11   Contested Terrain: Teenagers in Public Space, pp 395-401
    Whose Culture? Whose City? pp 431-438
    17.   EXAM II (final)                           REVIEW CLASS NOTES and READING ASSIGNMENTS