Talk:Cultural area

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"Cultured" area[edit]

culture area is a area with culture. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.69.132.81 (talk • contribs) 22:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No, culture area does not mean an area with culture because in that case, everywhere that human inhabit, there is culture. I think you are confusing "culture" with "cultured". Anthropologists would argue that every human has culture. The idea of "cultured" is linked to the idea of refinement in one's society. --C.H. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.146.38.76 (talk • contribs) 06:31, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural areas are understood as geographical areas/regions that share similarities in their culture. In North America there are 9 Native American cultural areas. These regions are defined by the cultural characteristics of the native nations that live or have lived there. 149.125.44.86 (talk) 21:15, 7 September 2014 (UTC)Sage Gibbons[reply]

Synthesis Needed[edit]

In my experience, the culture area concept today is used by archaeologists of particular regions and by ethnologists who use a synchronic, functional, or ecological model for culture. Any given major geographical region (i.e. "South America") may have as few as four culture areas or as many as thirty depending upon the scholar doing the research. I think that the article needs to reflect this historical debate and the somewhat arbitrary nature of the boundaries of culture areas. Do you guys think that a synthesis the discussion of how the various culture areas have been created should be on this page, or with the lists of culture areas? Both? Bwilreker (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 23:34, 29 October 2009 (UTC).[reply]

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No mention of Kulturkreis tradition[edit]

There is a Wikipedia page about German Kulturkreis theory, which explicitly mentions the link to American Culture Area theory (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulturkreis). Why is there no link the other way? This seems particularly strange since - as far as I can see - the Germans pioneered the approach. To my mind there should at least be a link to the Kulturkreis page, and preferably a discussion of the relationship between the two traditions. 84.212.81.79 (talk) 18:54, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unexplained deletion[edit]

Why have the following maps been deleted? תיל"ם (talk) 13:02, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, but can you identify when they were removed and by whom, by looking at the history of the article? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:51, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Geographic areas?[edit]

Does this list even belong in this article? The world can be divided up in numerous ways geographically, but this article is supposed to be about cultural areas. I think the whole section should be deleted. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 07:51, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]