Art ; Cultural geography ; Folklore ; Louisiana ; Tradition ; United States
Southwestern Louisiana is the hearth area for zydeco music, a blend of African-American and African-French traditions. It developed into a distinctive genre when rhythm-and-blues music was grafted onto it. Zydeco as a kind of music has spread
Interior synthetic geography―Chinese traditional geography
In ancient China, agricultural civilization was highly developed and the study of Chinese traditional geography was formed. This geography consists of three interdependant parts : synthetic descriptions of regions, techniques of large-scale maps
Cultural studies ; Economy ; Ethnic community ; Fiji ; Regional geography ; Settlement history ; Tradition
L'A. met l'accent sur le peuplement historique des îles Fidji dans sa région du Pacifique, les problèmes actuels inter-ethniques et économiques, et la tendance vers le retour aux traditions. - (DWG)
Oman : traditional and modern adaptations to the environment
Approvisionnement en eau ; Culturel ; Développement ; Economie ; Géographie de l'Asie ; Mode de vie ; Modernisation ; Oman ; Pétrole ; Relation homme-environnement ; Tradition
Reprint of a widely circulated article, first published in 1964, that helped to stabilize the discourse of geography in the USA for more than 20 years. It organized geography into the spatial, area studies, man-land and earth sciences traditions
Bêtiment temporaire ; Culturel ; Enseignement de la géographie ; Etats-Unis ; Paysage culturel ; Tradition
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Teaching of geography ; Tradition ; United States of America
The USA has a strong tradition in temporary buildings, structures and even towns. Explains how students can study this phenomenon at a local level. - (DWG)
Traditions and research opportunities in folk geography
Opportunités qu'offre l'existence d'un département folklore et traditions dans les universités américaines à la géographie traditionnellement ancrée dans l'étude des cultures.
On peut expliquer la localisation des synagogues selon deux traditions juives: une tradition symbolique (idéaliste) et une tradition fonctionnelle (réaliste).
Ethnicite, tradition et pouvoir : le jeu de la capoeira a Rio de Janeiro et a Paris
Rio de Janeiro - Paris - Bresil - France - Amerique du Sud - Europe - Amerique - Europe - Dance - Situations de pouvoirs - Luttes politiques - Tradition
Art ; Century 19th ; Civilization ; Exploration ; Historical geography ; Literature ; Myth ; Tradition ; United States ; Western United States
Much of the invented tradition that developed from the early images of the West was based in American interpretations of the European Romantic tradition and grew out of the art and literature that surrounded the American fur trade of the Rocky
Century 19th ; Civilization ; Cultural geography ; Cultural identity ; Historical geography ; Ideology ; Myth ; Nationalism ; Southern United States ; Tradition ; United States