Unit 3
Terms
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- ethnic cleansing
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- monotheistic religions
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- popular culture
- Entertainment spread by mass communications and enjoying wide appeal.
- culture complex
- A related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils.
- Subcultures
- mini cultures within an organization, typically defined by department designations and geographical separation
- toponyms
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- adaptive strategy
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- standard language
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- lingua Franca
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- creole
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- Renfrew hypothesis
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- ecotheology
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- pagan
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- orthodox religions
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- traditional religions
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- agriculture theory
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- culture trait
- a particular trait that is easily identifiable with a specific culture.
- enviroment perception
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- cultural determinism
- the idea that a culture largely determines what a person can and cannot become
- syncretic religions
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- hierarchial religions
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- theocracy
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- pidgin language
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- diaspora
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- language replacement
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- culture region
- different countrys which have traits in common
- interfaith boundaries
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- language branch
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- reverse reconstruction
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- race
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- cultural diffusion
- the spread of cultural elements from one society to another
- cultural hearths
- Heartland, source area, innovation center, place of origin of a major culture
- cultural nationalism
- pride in one's own culture
- ethnic religions
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- secularism
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- taboo
- an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
- conquest theory
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- fundamentalism
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- universalizing religions
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- generic toponyms
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- apartheid
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- proselytic religions
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- indigenous technical knowledge
- Highly localized knowledge about enviromental conditions and sustainable land-use practices
- cultural landscape
- Fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group.
- culture realm
- A cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail.
- racism
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- habit
- a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition
- linguistic refugee areas
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- missionaries
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- intrafaith boundaries
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- dialect
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- polyglot
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- language divergence
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- official language
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- maladaptive diffusion
- diffusion in which image takes precedence over practicality (ie. ranch style house)
- cultural imperialism
- the dominance of one culture over another
- telelogy
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- sacred spaces
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- Folk Culture
- Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
- monolingual states
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- pilgrimages
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- ideograms
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- non-material culture
- ideas, knowledge and beliefs that influence people's behavior
- language
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- indigenous culture
- having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or occurring naturally in a particular region or environment
- animism
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- isoglosses
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- contact conversion
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- language families
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- language convergence
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- religion
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- multilingial states
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- gaia hypotheisis
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- material culture
- things and objects that represent a culture.
- custom
- accepted or habitual practice
- monoglots
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- isolated language
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- shatter belts
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- placelessness
- loss of uniqueness of a place
- convergence hypotheise
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- polytheistic religions
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- vernacular culture
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- cultural lag
- when a group is unresponsive to innovations or changes in their environment