Imagining New Worlds: Geographic Imagination

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• • • Questions about the video Imagining New Worlds

1. What elements of the modern cultural landscape of the Yucatan Peninsula serve as indicators of the various geographical imaginations which occupy this place?

2. What was the purpose of the building that the tour bus guide pointed out to the group?

3. How did this landscape fit into the geographical imagination of the ancient Maya?

4. What is meant by cultural hybridity? How has cultural hybridity affected the families living in this region?

5.What elements in the lives of modern Mexicans reflect the duration of ancient Mayan understandings of the world?

6.In what ways have the ancient Mayan and modern Mexican geographical world views been able to survive, given the increasingly dominant alternative views of the tourists and the free Market global economy: In what ways had the Mayan and Mexican views been compromised?

7.What information about the ancient ceremony and the designs woven into the garments of each Mayan village is revealed?

8. What is meant by the term geographical imagination? Each person should be able to answer this question in a brief 5 sentence paragraphBold text