Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Local Culture, Popular
Culture, and Cultural
Landscapes
- Field Note: Preserving Culture
- Parsi; an ethic and religious group,
follow the Zoroastrian religion,
they sought refuge in India
- The Parsi make up a small percent
of the population (0.00046%)
- Despite their size, they were
major players in India's economy
- Their small size is threatening
the extinction of the culture
- Parsi have very low fertility rates, high
birth rates and well educated women
- Today they are struggling to maintain their culture
and sense of community in the changing world
- What are Local and Popular Cultures?
- A group of people who share common beliefs
can be recognized as a culture in 2 ways
- 1. the people can call
themselves a culture
- 2. Other people can
label them as a culture
- Academics label culture
groups as folk* or popluar*
- Folk have homogeneous
pops. In rural areas
- Popular have heterogeneous
pops. In urban areas
- Folk culture is a limiting concept,
it requires a list of characteristics
- Local culture* instead
of "folk culture"
- The material* and nonmaterial* culture
of a group reflects their beliefs and values
- Pop. Culture can change in
a matter of days or hours
- Diffusion; transport.,
marketing, + com. networks
- Hierarchical
- How are Local Cultures Sustained?
- Rural Local Cultures
- Easier to maintain because of isolation
- Anabaptist groups: Hutterites,
Amish, and Mennonites
- In the 90's the Makah American
Indians reinstated their whale
hunt, causing an uproar
- Urban Local Cultures
- create ethnic
neighborhoods*
- i.e. NYC
- Local Cultures and Cultural Appropriation
- commodification* is
affecting local cultures
- The question of authenticity*
follows commodification
- Authenticity of Places
- i.e. Branson,
MI, the Irish
Pub Co.
- Freezes customs in place
and time for consumption,
while claiming authenticity
- In 2008 Canada and Australia
apologized to their indigenous
populations for assimilation*
- Sustained by customs
and traditions
- Strive to avoid
cultural appropriation*
- How is Popular Culture Diffused?
- Hearths of Pop. Culture
- All aspects of pop.
Culture have a hearth
- 1. Contagious diffusion
- 2. Hierarchial
- Local cultures will use
reterritorialization* to
make the aspect their own
- i.e. hip hop
- Replacing Old Hearths w/ New
- Major League Sports
to extreme sports
- skate/snow boarding, ultimate fighting
- new=socially desirable
- Stemming the Tide of Pop.
Culture-Losing the Local?
- for some local cultures pop.
culture can feel like assimilation
- NoAm, WeEu, Ja, In, + SoKo all act
as major hearths of pop. culture
- During the 20th century
the spatial extent of
diffusion has expanded
- New tech.
has altered
distance
decay*
- David
Harvey used
time-space
compression*
to explain
modern
diffusion
- How can Local and Popular Cultures
be seen in the Cultural Landscape?
- Cultural Landscapes of Local Cultures
- mormons
- the tension between pop.
and local culture can be seen
in the cultural landscape*
- placelessness* is used
to describe the loss of
uniqueness to a place
- cultural landscapes can
begin to blend together
- skyscrapers
- global businesses
- 3rd dimension
- global-local
continuum*