Exam 5: Geographies of Identity and Difference

The current favoured understanding of ethnicity is of a collective identity through which of the following?

Which of the following terms is defined as "a physically distinguishable population within a species"?

In traditional Islamic and Chinese societies, the areas for women are separate from those for men, and women are often isolated from the larger world.

Explain what is meant by the "cultural turn."

What is currently the largest economic activity in the world, growing about 20 per cent faster than the overall world economy?

What is the estimated value of tourism to the global economy today?

Describe the characteristics of elitist landscapes.

Criminal activities are most prevalent in inner cities and other areas of poverty, low-quality housing, high population mobility, and social heterogeneity.

Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand, suggests that the distribution of fear is spatially concentrated in low-income and unstable areas.

Which country is home to the most expensive street to buy an apartment?

Most groups base their ethnicity on which two principal cultural variables?

Folk cultures tend to embrace change and new behaviours.

Which of the following is an example of the "tourist gaze"?

Discuss the myths about human evolution and race, distinguish among the terms race, species, and phenotypes, and describe the problems with how the term race is still used.

Assimilation is the process by which an ethnic individual or group is absorbed into a larger society while retaining aspects of distinct identity.

With reference to specific examples, discuss the ways in which gender differences are apparent in the landscape.