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What this episode covers
- What culture is and how it is spatially distributed
- Cultural landscapes and how to read them
- Folk culture vs. popular culture — origins, diffusion, and change
- Types of cultural diffusion: contagious, hierarchical, stimulus, relocation
- Language families, branches, dialects, and lingua francas
- Universalizing vs. ethnic religions — distribution and spread
- Sacred spaces and religion's influence on land use
- Cultural change: acculturation, assimilation, syncretism
- Globalization and its effects — cultural convergence and divergence
- Cultural imperialism, placelessness, and resistance
- Sequent occupance and the layered cultural landscape