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  1. 5 days ago · In broad terms, cultural geography examines the cultural values, practices, discursive and material expressions and artefacts of people, the cultural diversity and plurality of society, and how cultures are distributed over space, how places and identities are produced, how people make sense of places and build senses of place, and how people ...

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      A Dictionary of Human Geography Author(s): Alisdair Rogers,...

  2. Defining Culture. Humans are social creatures. Since the dawn of Homo sapiens nearly 250,000 years ago, people have grouped into communities in order to survive. Living together, people form everyday habits and behaviors – from specific methods of childrearing to preferred techniques for obtaining food.

  3. No single definition of culture dominates within cultural geography. Regardless of their particular interpretation of culture, however, geographers wholeheartedly reject theories that treat culture as if it took place "on the head of a pin".

  4. Jan 22, 2020 · Cultural geography is the study of the many cultural aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and places where they originate and then travel as people continually move across various areas. What Is Cultural Geography?

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  5. Sep 26, 2022 · The works in this section offer overviews of the development of social and cultural geographies in a total of twenty-two countries or regions. All were written in the late 1990s and the new millennium, and all seek to reflect contemporary developments as well as the histories of social and cultural geographies.

  6. Nov 1, 2016 · In this paper, we analyse debates regarding the strange and the stranger. In critiquing these debates in geography and the social sciences, we argue that the stranger as a term is often taken for granted and implies assumed knowledge.

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  8. The cultural landscape, the imprint of people and groups on the land, has long been of interest to geographers. The practice of “reading” and interpreting the landscape can prove difficult because most people are not used to taking a critical look at what they see.