Unit Review Sheet

·  Know all vocabulary words

Folk and Popular Culture

·  Why do some people insist on preserving local culture?

·  How does globalization affect culture?

·  What aspect of local culture was important to the Makah American Indians?

·  What is the difference in local culture and popular culture?

·  Houses: Know a few examples of house styles & the major hearths of houses. In local cultures, what influenced the building materials of the houses? How does the concepts of possibilism and environmental determinism relate to local culture? (Ck the textbook p. 120-124)

·  In popular culture, what influences clothing choices?

·  What are material culture, non-material culture, artifacts, mentifacts, and sociofacts?

·  Review the web assignment on Fiji and Bhutan.

·  What are the ways that culture can diffuse?

Religion

·  What is the difference in ethnic and universalizing religions? What are some examples?

·  What is meant if a religion is syncretic? Know some examples.

·  What are branch and denomination? Know the major branches of the major religions.

·  What are the hearths of the major religions? Where are the major religions/branches located?

·  Know some details of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (green line, who divided into Jewish an Palestinian territory, etc.)

·  Be able to recognize religious structures

·  What are the ways that religion can diffuse? Know examples.

·  Know the spatial distribution of the major religions (this means know where they are on the map!)

·  How do religions affect the landscape?

Language

·  What is the hearth and diffusion pattern of Indo-European languages? What are the major branches of Indo-European? What are the major languages of the major branches? Where are the major languages spoken?

·  What language(s) are spoken in Switzerland, Belgium, the Basque area of Spain

·  Review the Gullah/Geechee and Disappearing Dialects web assignments

·  Spend some quality time with the language tree, branches, groups, and leaves. Don’t forget to study a map of language families.

·  Know about the Quebecois.

·  What languages influenced English? How do you account for the differences in British English and American English?

·  Why is it important to protect or revive languages? How is language and culture interwoven?

Ethnicity

·  Review definitions for state, nation, nation-state and nationalism.

·  Understand some points from the readings “Does race exist?”

·  Know the major issues of ethnic conflicts: Eritrea, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Sudan, South Asia, South Africa, Israel and Yugoslavia.

·  Where are concentrations of ethnicities in the US?

·  What were some racial issues involving housing during the 1950s- 70s?