Topical Coverage: Combining the Timeless and the Timely

Jordan’s Fundamentals of The Human Mosaic offers a mixture of the timeless and the timely, combining Terry Jordan’s classic and popular examples with up-to-date coverage, data, statistics, new examples, and current research in each chapter. For example, all world maps have been updated to include South Sudan.

Among the new topics included in this edition are:

• An extended discussion of vernacular culture regions (Chapter 1)
• The rise of Facebook through hierarchical and contagious diffusion (Chapter 1)
• Updated coverage of natural hazards and disasters, such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami (Chapters 1, 5)
• New coverage of foodways (world and local food and drink preferences) (Chapter 2)
• Hip-hop music as an example of cultural interaction (Chapter 2)
• A discussion of ethnomedicine and ecology (Chapter 2)
• David Lowenthal’s work regarding the “cult of bigness” and the U.S. landscape (Chapter 2)
• Additional coverage of key concepts in population geography: natural decrease, absolute population density, physiological population density, dependency ratio, population growth rate, and population doubling time (Chapter 3)
• New discussion of medical geography and disease diffusion (Chapter 3)
• Urban landscape changes in South America and the rise of shantytowns/favelas (Chapter 3)
• A redrawn, easier-to-understand linguistic family tree (Chapter 4)
• A discussion of texting and global language modification (Chapter 4)
• Additional coverage of toponyms (Chapter 4)
• Expanded discussion of refugees and internally displaced persons (Chapter 5)
• A new discussion of environmental racism in the Seattle area (Chapter 5)
• Clarification of the difference between international political organizations and supranational political organizations (Chapter 6)
• Role of the Internet in political movements, such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement (Chapter 6)
• New examples of national iconography on the landscape: Queen’s Day in the Netherlands and the memorial to victims of the Nanjing Massacre in China (Chapter 6)
• Cultural interaction of religion and the cow population in India (Chapter 7)
• Updated coverage of religious adherence in the United States (Chapter 7)
• New map of agricultural regions in the United States, Figure 8.8 (Chapter 8)
• Extended discussion of aquaculture and the U.S. exclusive economic zone (Chapter 8)
• New map showing ancient sites of domestication for selected crops, Figure 8.17 (Chapter 8)
• Shrinkage of the Aral Sea (Chapter 8)
• New global map of biotech crop countries, Figure 8.28 (Chapter 8)
• Components of the Human Development Index, Figure 9.2 (Chapter 9)
• Updated discussion of the debates and evidence regarding global climate change and the environmental sustainability index (Chapter 9)
• New map of the world’s urbanized population, Figure 10.1 (Chapter 10)
• Discussion of Latin American urban landscapes (Chapter 10)
• Modern critiques of the concentric zone, sector, and multiple-nuclei models of the city (Chapter 11)