Geography

Defining geography
Academic study of geography

Cultural geography

Boundaries and patterns
Talk about how geography was discussed in our book

Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States



Henry Glassie I asked what patterns were after we discussed what made something "folk" *bucket?):

1. analysis of material cultural forms... recurring characteristics, principles, historical connections, object and form

2. configuation on landscape (history and geography)

3. sketching an early pattern (being provisional by having the first word and then waiting to see what other people think)

^Glassie tried to synthesize these scattered bits, rebuild a history of settlement geography

-some forms change rapidly, others do not. (but forms also change in space, not just in time)

-the further you travel, the greater the variation

How has my understanding of geography changed since the beginning of class?
-other classes

styles, space, place

-from notes:

Boas understood geographical context, to see the relationship with the natural and cultural world

Prioritization of verbal art (but also addition of material culture)

Folktropes
Geography

Popular antiquities problem

Folklore vs anthropology

Popular vs the elite

-think about music; classical music vs commercial music

Temporal vs spatial

What are the hallmarks of folk?

-without access to global power?

-local difference as opposed to neighbors

-variations are not mass-mediated or broadcasted