Cultural mapping

Cultural Mapping
Aka: Cultural Resource Mapping Cultural Landscape Mapping
Sample image of cultural mapping (ie Kuku Nyungkal cultural information system)
UNESCO) concerned about safeguarding cultural diversity give to a wide range of research techniques and tools used to "map" distinct peoples' tangible and intangible cultural assets within local landscapes around the world [1] In its Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, UNESCO notes the importance of States adopting inclusive ways of encouraging cultural diversity...[2] The term "cultural mapping" is also used to describe the use of "cultural mapping" type research methods, tools, and techniques to identify, describe, portray, promote, and plan future use of particular region's or cities combined cultural assets and resources: A broadly-based mapping exercise for purposes of investigating or creating an identity profile of the community is enriching, informative and useful [...] The process of mapping by itself draws attention to the existence and importance of cultural resources. The results point out problems to be solved or strengths to build upon.[3] See also Cultural Landcapes Participatory GIS References ^ UNESCO Bangkok "Cultural Mapping" webpage Accessed 21 December 2010 ^ Peter Poole (2003) Cultural Mapping and Indigenous People: A Report to UNESCO ^ Arts Now (2007) Cultural Mapping Toolkit. Creativecity.ca Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa B Cultural Ministers Council Look at other dictionaries: Cultural dissonance — (education, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies) is an uncomfortable sense of discord, disharmony, confusion, or conflict experienced by people in the midst of change in their cultural environment. The changes are often unexpected,… …   Wikipedia Cultural area — Cultural areas of North American people at the time of European contact …   Wikipedia Mapping of Unicode characters — Unicode’s Universal Character Set has a potential capacity to support over 1 million characters. Each UCS character is mapped to a code point which is an integer between 0 and 1,114,111 used to represent each character within the internal logic… …   Wikipedia Cultural analysis — As a discipline, cultural analysis is based on using qualitative research methods of the social sciences, in particular ethnography and anthropology, to collect data on cultural phenomena; in an effort to gain new knowledge or understanding… …   Wikipedia Mapping of Unicode graphic characters — Main article: Mapping of Unicode characters By far the most common Unicode characters are graphical characters. Graphical characters all have some visual representation or glyphs associated with them. While Unicode does not specify the concrete… …   Wikipedia media and cultural studies —    Cultural studies emerged during the late 1950s as a new field of knowledge production in British universities, and over subsequent decades has spread internationally, notably to the USA and Australia. In its first formation, cultural studies… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture Curriculum mapping — is a procedure for reviewing the operational curriculum[1] as it is entered into an electronic database at any education setting. It is based largely on the work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs in Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and… …   Wikipedia Disease diffusion mapping — Disease diffusion occurs when a disease is transmitted to a new location.[1] It implies that a disease spreads, or pours out, from a central source.[2] The idea of showing the spread of disease using a diffusion pattern is relatively modern,… …   Wikipedia Racial Mapping — is the use of cartography to identify and situate distinct racial groups [Winlow (forthcoming)] . By using maps to highlight, perpetuate, and naturalize the differences of race through both literal and metaphorical means [Kobayashi and Peake… …   Wikipedia Animated mapping — is the application of animation, either computer or video, to add a temporal component to a map displaying change in some dimension. Most commonly the change is shown over time, generally at a greatly changed scale (either much faster than real… …   Wikipedia 18+ © Academic, 2000-2024 Contact us: Technical Support, Advertising Dictionaries export, created on PHP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MODx. Mark and share Search through all dictionaries Translate… Search Internet Share the article and excerpts Direct link … Do a right-click on the link above and select “Copy Link”