Understanding Culture and Agriculture: Key Concepts and Insights
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Harvard University**We aren't endorsed by this school
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HJJJHBJHGJ KJKJ
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Anthropology
Date
Dec 12, 2024
Pages
4
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1 Culture & Agriculture Study Guide Terms to know: ▪Acculturation ▪Assimilation ▪Creolized language ▪Cultural relativism ▪Forced migration ▪Lingua franca ▪Long lots surveys ▪Metes and bounds surveys ▪Sequent occupance ▪Tropical latitudes ▪Contagious diffusion ▪Cultural diffusion ▪Hierarchical diffusion ▪Relocation diffusion ▪Relocation diffusion ▪Stimulus diffusion •An influx of Chinese immigrants spread the use of chopsticks into Southeast Asian countries This is an example of which sort of diffusion? •Based on the diagram of von Thünen’s model of agricultural land use, what is the connection between land value and agricultural production regions? (Think of the value of rings on a dartboard). •Describe the roles of women in the rural, agricultural economies of sub-Saharan Africa. What type of farming? Who owns the farms? How large are they? How much income do the farms bring in? •Explain the similarities between Asia and sub-Saharan Africa in terms of the percent of women working agriculture. •Explain the spatial patterns in the bid-rent theory in cities in the midwestern United States. •How has genetic engineering of agricultural crops primarily increased the productivity of modern farming? •How has the expansion of feedlots for raising cattle affected the environment in rural areas?
2 •In 2017 the Ivory Coast exported $5.6 billion worth of cocoa beans and cocoa-derived products, such as cocoa butter. This represented 55 percent of the country’s exports and was worth four times the country’s combined gold and oil exports in that year. What economic risk is associated with such a high level of dependency on a single agricultural commodity? •In less developed countries, pesticides are typically applied by hand, whereas pesticides are typically applied by tractors or aircraft in more developed countries. What sort of risks might be associated with applying pesticide applications (both to the user and the environment)? •In the context of the Second Agricultural Revolution, how did the mechanization of farming affect crop harvests? •Traditional labor-intensive agriculture often involves what types of farming? •What is a combination of Elizabethan English and African dialects? •What two types of geographic processes took place as Islam diffused east and west from its hearth? •What type of settlement pattern did the townshipand range land survey systemcontribute toin the United States? •When comparing metes and bounds surveysand long lots surveys, which survey system was more efficient in terms of trade? Why? •Where were the four major ancient culture hearths? •Which regional location in the United States is most likely to take part in Dia De Los Muertos celebrations? Why? •Why did multiple early hearths of domestication and diffusion of plants and animals arise across the world in Central America, the Fertile Crescent, the Indus River valley, and Southeast Asia? •Why have agribusiness farms replaced family farms in North America since the 1980s?
3 •Why is English the most widely spoken language in North America? (I.e., what form of diffisopm was involved?) •What is a cultural landscape? Be able to identify all the most useful features (even the more obscure ones) for describing the cultural landscape shown in the image above. •Using information evident in the image, which geographic concept applies? •Based on the map above, where is coffee bean production greatest at the global scale?
4 •Compare cattle feedlots to cattle ranching. Why is one more cost productive than the other? •The map above shows the global diffusion of the French language from its cultural hearth in Paris. Why did French spread to these countries?