Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer
“Cultural regions are the most suited units to study the diversity of an area.” Comment.
- UPSC 2015
- Perspectives in Human Geography
A cultural region is an area whose population shares one or more distinctive and mutually reinforcing cultural traits — language, religion, ethnicity, diet, dress, kinship, house type, agrarian practice — and whose sharing is legible on the ground as a cultural landscape, the material deposit of a way of life.
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- Anatomy of the Unit: Three Types of Cultural Region (Whittlesey; Zelinsky)
- Formal (Uniform) Cultural Region
- Functional (Nodal) Cultural Region
- Vernacular (Perceptual) Cultural Region
- Internal Structure: The Core–Domain–Sphere Gradient (Meinig)
- The Affirmative Case: Why Cultural Regions Genuinely Suit the Study of Diversity (Sauer; Vidal de la Blache)
- …and 7 more sections, with a conclusion
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