Geog 1302

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a social system and folding a set of beliefs and practices through which people seek Carmine with the universe and attempt to influence the forces of nature, life, and death.: Religion
a religion that actively seeks converts and has the goal of converting all humankind.: Proselytic religions
a religion identified with a particular ethnic or trouble group; does not seek converts.: ethnic religion
the worship of only one God: monotheistic religions
the worship of many gods: polytheistic religions
religions, or strands within religions, that combine elements of two or more belief systems.: syncretic religions
a strand within most major religions that emphasizes purity of faith and does not open to blending with other religions.: orthodox religions
-- a movement to return to the founding principles of religion, which can include literal interpretation of sacred texts, or the attempt to follow the ways of a religious founder as closely as possible.: fundamentalism
an area occupied by people who have something in common culturally; or a spatial unit of functions politically, socially, or economically as a distinct entity.: culture regions
the spread of elements of culture from the point of origin over an area: cultural diffusion
the artificial landscape; the visible human imprint on the land: cultural landscape
people who believe that in inanimate objects, such as trees, rocks, and rivers, possesses souls.: animists
a focused geographic area were important innovations are born and from which they spread.: culture hearth
the spread of religious believes by personal contact: contact conversion
the unique way in which each culture uses its particular physical environment; those aspects of culture that serve to provide the necessities of life -- food, clothing, shelter, and defense.: adaptive strategy
the study of the influence of religious belief on habitat modification: ecotheology
a philosophy proposing that the earth was created specifically as the abode for humans, that the earth belongs to humans by divine intention.: teleology
the theory that there is one interacting planetary ecosystem, Gaia, that includes all living things and land, waters, and atmosphere in which they live; further, Gaia functions almost as a living organism, acting to control deviations in climate and to c: Gaia hypothesis
a journey to a place of religious importance: Pilgrimages
in area recognized by a religious group as worthy of devotion, loyalty, esteem, or fear to the extent that it becomes sought out, avoided, inaccessible to the nonbeliever, and/or removed from economic use: sacred spaces
-- a mutually agreed upon system of symbolic communication that has a spoken and the usually a written expression.: Language
a distinctive local or regional variant of a language that remains mutually intelligible to speakers of other dialects of that language; a subtype of a language.: Dialects
a composite language consisting of a small for vocabulary borrowed from the linguistic groups involved in international commerce: Pidgin
a language derived from a pidgin that has acquired a fuller vocabulary and become the native language of its speakers: Creole
an existing, well-established language of communication and commerce used widely where it is not a mother tongue: lingua franca
The ability to speak two languages fluently.: bilingualism
a group of related languages derived from a common ancestor.: language families
a mixture of different languages: polyglot
the border of usage of an individual word or pronunciation.: isoglosses
words and phrases that are not part of a standard recognized vocabulary for a given language but that are nonetheless used and understood by some of its speakers: slang
the zone of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups.: shatter belts
in area protected by isolation or inhospitable environmental conditions in which a language or dialect has survived.: linguistic refuge areas
a person who speaks only one language: monoglots
a place name, usually consisting of two parts, the generic and the specific.: toponyms
the descriptive part of many place names, often repeated throughout culture area.: generic toponyms
a classification system that is sometimes understood as arising from genetically significant differences among human populations, or visible differences in human physiognomy, or as a social can structure that varies across time and space.: Race
prejudice and hatred towards people of other races: Racism
a group of people who share a common ancestry and cultural tradition, often living as a minority in the larger society.: ethnic group
the adoption by an ethnic group of enough of the ways of the host society to be able to function economically and socially.: acculturation
-- the complete blending of an ethnic group into the host society, resulting in the loss of all distinctive ethnic traits.: assimilation
the study of the spatial and ecological aspects of ethnicity: ethnic geography
-- a sizable area inhabited by an ethnic minority that exhibits a strong sense of attachment to the region and often exercises some measure of political and social control over it: ethnic homelands
a small ethnic area in the rural countryside; sometimes called of a "folk island.": ethnic islands
regional cultural distinctiveness that remains following the assimilation of an ethnic homeland.: ethnic substrate
a voluntary community are people of like origin recited by choice.: ethnic neighborhood
traditionally, an area within a city where an ethnic group was, either by choice or by force. Today in the United States, the term typically indicates an impoverished African American urban neighborhood.: ghetto
the tendency of people to migrate along channels, over a period of time, from specific source areas to specific destinations: chain migration
a type of ethnic diffusion that involves the voluntary movement of a group of migrants back to its ancestral or native country or Homeland.: return migration
the process by which immigrant ethnic groups lose certain aspects of their traditional culture in the process of sailing overseas, creating a new culture that is less complex than the old.: cultural simplification
a complex of adaptive traits and skills possessed in advance of migration by a group, giving them survival ability and competitive advantage and occupying the new environment.: cultural preadaptation
poor or inadequate adaptation that occurs when a group pursues an adaptive strategy that, in the short run, fails to provide the necessities of life, in the long run, destroys the environment that nourishes it.: cultural maladaptation
customary behaviors associated with food preparation and consumption: food ways
the cultivation of domesticated crops in the raising of domesticated animals.: Agriculture
a type of agriculture characterized by land rotation, in which temporary clearings are used for several years and then abandoned to be replaced by new clearing; also known as "slash and burn agriculture.": swidden cultivation
the practice of growing two or more different types of crops in the same feel that the same time.: intercropping
farming to supply the minimum food and materials necessary to survive: subsistence agriculture
the cultivation of rice on the paddy, or small flooded field and close by mud dikes, practice in the humid areas of the far east.: paddy rice farming
harvesting twice a year from the same parcel of land.: double cropping
a former belonging to a full culture and practicing the traditional system of agriculture.: peasants
a system of monoculture for producing export crops requiring relatively large amounts of land and capital; originally dependent on slave labor: plantation agriculture
a large landholding devoted to specialist production of a tropical cash crop.: plantation
farming devoted to specialist fruit, vegetable, or vine crops for sale rather than consumption.: market gardening
in American commercial grain agriculture, a farm on which no one lives; planting and harvesting is done by hard migratory crews: suitcase farm
a commercial type of agriculture that produces fattened cattle and hogs for meat.: livestock fattening
a factory like farm devoted see either livestock fattening or carrying; all feet is imported and no crops are grown on the farm.: feedlot
highly mechanized, large-scale farming, usually under corporate ownership: agribusinesses
a member of a group that continually moves with its livestock in search of forage for its animals: nomadic livestock herders
farming in fixed and permanent fields.: sedentary cultivation
the commercial raising of herd livestock on a large landholding: ranching
the raising of food, including fruit, vegetables, meat, and milk, inside cities, especially common in the Third World.: urban agriculture
the killing of wild game and harvesting of wild plants to provide food and traditional cultures.: hunting and gathering
a plant deliberately planted intended by humans that is genetically distinct from its wild ancestors as a result of selective breeding: domesticated plants
an animal kept for some utilitarian purpose whose breeding is controlled by humans and whose survival is dependent on human; domesticated animals differ genetically and behaviorally from wild animals.: domesticated animal
the recent introduction of high-yield hybrid crops and chemical fertilizers and pesticides into traditional Asian agricultural systems, most notably paddy rice farming, with attendant increases in production and ecological damage: Green Revolution
the expenditure of much labor and capital of the piece of land to increase its productivity. In contrast, extensive agriculture involves less labor and capital.: intense agriculture
the raising of only one crop on a huge tract of land in agribusiness: monocultural
plants whose genetic characteristics have been altered through recombinant DNA technology.: genetically modified crops
the cultural landscape of agricultural areas: agricultural landscape
the shapes form by property borders; the pattern of land ownership.: cadastral pattern
a pattern of original land survey in an area.: survey patterns
a small rural settlement, smaller than a village.: hamlets

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