The map is broken down into six regions — Pacific, Midwest, Northeast, Frontier, the South, and the Caribbean — with dozens of subregions. Areas like New England might seem like no brainers, but you might not have considered the Ozarks and Chesapeake to be their own cultural pockets.
1. Shared values, beliefs, and life-ways in either a geographical region or psychological sphere ( Gupta & Ferguson, 1997 ).
Culture may be thought of as a causal agent that affects the evolutionary process by uniquely human means. Religion, on the other hand, is considered a process of revelation and contains the concept of the “faithful” who receive the message of revelation.
The two basic types of culture are material culture, physical things produced by a society, and nonmaterial culture, intangible things produced by a society.
Geographers have identified three types of regions: formal, functional, and vernacular.
Map 2-8: World Culture Regions on page 86 shows the world divided into 10 culture regions.
Each region can be associated with a distinctive kind of food, clothing, poetry, dance, music as well as art which is collectively termed as its culture. We tend to identify people living in a particular region on the basis of these.
