Chapter Four Barrons Part 1
I thought memorizing 57 words at a time was too hard, so I divided it into two parts! Have fun!
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- cultural geography
- the subfield of humAN GEOGRAPHY THAT LOOKS AT HOW CULTURES VARY OVER SPACE
- Folk culture
- Refers to a constellation of cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds, and rituals of everyday existence in the traditional soci¬eties in which they developed
- animism
- most prevalent in africa and the americas, doctrine in which the world is seen as being infused with spiritual and evn supernatural powers
- evangelical religions
- religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system
- christianity
- the world's most widespread religion. christianity is a monotheistic, universal religion that uses missionaries to expand its members worldwide.
- Dialect
- Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary some¬what from the parent form
- cultural extinction
- obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturaltion, or a combination of the three
- Genocide
- a premeditated effort to kill everyone from a particular ethnic group
- Ethnicity
- refers to a group of people who share a common identity
- Ethinic cleansing
- The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region either by forced migration or genocide
- acculturation
- the adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another
- artifact
- any item that represents a material aspect of culture
- buddhism
- system of belief that seeks to explain ultimate realities for all people, such as the nature of suffering and the path toward self-realization
- caste system
- system in india that gives every individual a particular plave in the social hierarchy from birth
- creole
- a pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of those who speak it
- Ecumene
- The proportion of the earth inhabited by humans
- Denomination
- a particular religious group, usually associated with differing Protestant belief systems
- cultural imperialism
- the dominance of one culture over another
- Enviromental determinism
- A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions
- cultural trait
- the specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of pop. culture
- Ghetto
- a segregated ethnic area within a city
- Ethnic religion
- religion that is identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group and that does not seek new converts
- cultural hearth
- locations on earth's surface whee specific cultures first arose
- Fundamentalism
- the strict adherence to a particular doctrine
- Culture
- A total way of life held in common by a group of people, including learned features such as language, ideology, behavior, technology, and gov¬ernment
- cultural complex
- the group of traits that define a particular culture
- Ethnic neighborhood
- an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
- Diaspora
- People who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity
- Custom
- Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group