1. Local Culture, Popular Culture, and Cultural Landscapes Chapter 4

2. Woman with Oxcart, Myanmar McDonald’s, Tokyo, Japan

4. Key Question: What are Local and Popular Cultures?

9. Marlboro Man in Egypt

10. A Mental Map of Hip Hop This mental map places major hip hop performers near other similar performers and in the portion of the country where they performed.

11. How do cultural traits from local cultures become part of popular culture? Madonna wearing a red string Kabbalah bracelet.

13. How do cultural traits diffuse? Hearth: the point of origin of a cultural trait. Contagious diffusion Hierarchical diffusion

17. LittleSweden, USA (Lindsborg, Kansas): Is the Swedish Dala horse part of material or nonmaterial culture?

24. Runners of the NYC Marathon run through Williamsburg, (Brooklyn), NY

28. How is Popular Culture Diffused? Key Question:

30. Diffusion of TV, 1954–1999 Television has diffused widely since the 1950s, but some areas still have low numbers of TVs per population.

32. Why are popular culture traits usually diffused hierarchically? How is fashion in popular culture an example of hierarchical diffusion? Actress Lindsay Lohan

35. Placelessness: the loss of uniqueness in a cultural landscape – one place looks like the next.

36. Swimming Pool, West Edmonton Mall, Canada McDonald’s, Tokyo, Japan McDonald’s, Jerusalem