Chapter four barrons
Chapter Four Barrons
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- Denomination
- a particular religious group, usually associated with differing Protestant belief systems
- Custom
- Practices followed by the people of a particular cultural group
- Tradition
- a cohesive collection of customs within a cultural group
- Dialect
- Geographically distinct versions of a single language that vary some¬what from the parent form
- Local religion
- religions that are spiritually bound to particular regions
- Artifact
- Any item that represents a material aspect of culture
- Literacy
- the ability to read and write
- Diaspora
- People who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of the home of their ethnicity
- Islam
- A monotheistic religion based on the belief that there is one God, Allah, and that Muhammad was Allah's prophet. Islam is based in the ancient city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Muhammad
- Caste system
- System in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth. Individuals may improve the position they inherit in the caste system in their next life through their actions, or karma. After many lives of good karma, they may be relieved from cycle of life and win their place in heaven
- Animism
- Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas, doctrine in which the world is seen as being infused with spiritual and even supernatural powers
- Ethnic neighborhood
- an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background
- Toponym
- Place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features, and streams
- Judaism
- The first major monotheistic religion. It is based on a sense of eth¬nic identity, and its adherents tend to form tight-knit communities wherever they live
- Missionary
- A person of a particular faith that travels in order to recruit new members into the faith represented
- 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 hearth
- locations on earth's surface where specific cultures first arose
- Race
- A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types, genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics
- cultural imperialism
- the dominance of one culture over another
- Lingua franca
- An extremely simple language that combines aspects of two or more other, more-complex languages usually used for quick and efficient communication
- Ecumene
- The proportion of the earth inhabited by humans
- Evangelical religions
- religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system
- 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
- Ethinic cleansing
- The systematic attempt to remove all people of a particular ethnicity from a country or region either by forced migration or genocide
- Pop culture
- Dynamic culture based in large, heteroge¬neous societies permitting considerable individualism, innovation, and change; having a money-based economy, division of labor into professions, secular institutions of control, and weak interpersonal ties; and producing and consuming machine-made goods
- Ghetto
- a segregated ethnic area within a city
- Genocide
- a premeditated effort to kill everyone from a particular ethnic group
- Monotheism
- the worship of only one god
- Indo-european family
- Language family including the Germanic and Romance languages that is spoken by about 50% of the world's people
- 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
- Creole
- A pidgin language that evolves to the point at which it becomes the primary language of the people who speak it
- Cultural complex
- The group of traits that define a particular culture
- Minority
- A racial or ethnic group smaller than and differing from the major¬ity race or ethnicity in a particular area or region
- Sino-Tibetan family
- Language area that spreads through most of Southeast Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Korean
- Universalizing religion
- religion that seeks to unite people from all over the globe
- Cultural geography
- the subfield of human geography that looks at how cultures vary over space
- Enviromental determinism
- A doctrine that claims that cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions
- Christianity
- The world's most widespread religion. Christianity is a monothe¬istic, universal religion that uses missionaries to expand its members worldwide. The three major categories of Christianity are Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox
- Language extinction
- This occurs when a language is no longer in use by any living people. Thousands of languages have become extinct over the eons since language first developed, but the process of language extinction has accelerated greatly during the past 300 years
- Language group
- a set of languages with a relatively recent common origin and many similar characteristics
- Fundamentalism
- the strict adherence to a particular doctrine
- Hinduism
- A cohesive and unique society, most prevalent in India, that inte¬grates spiritual beliefs with daily practices and official institutions such as the caste system
- Cultural trait
- The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a par¬ticular culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects of popular culture
- Ethnicity
- refers to a group of people who share a common identity
- Pilgrimage
- a journey to a place of religious importance
- Polytheism
- the worship of more than one god
- Acculturation
- The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another
- Shaman
- The single person who takes on the roles of priest, counselor, and physician and acts as a conduit to the supernatural world in a shamanist culture
- Official language
- language in which all goverment buisness occurs in a country
- Global religion
- Religion in which members are numerous and widespread and their doctrines might appeal to different people from any region of the globe
- Syncretic
- Traditions that borrow from both the past and present
- Language family
- a collection of many languages, all of which came from the same original tongue long ago, that have since evolved different characteristics
- Pidgin
- Language that may develop when two groups of people with different languages meet. The pidgin has some characteristics of each language
- Cultural extinction
- obliteration of an entire culture by war, disease, acculturation, or a combination of the three
- Romance languages
- Any of the languages derived from Latin including Ital¬ian, Spanish, French, and Romanian
- Ethnic religion
- religion that is identified with a particular ethnic or tribal group and that does not seek new converts
- Multicultural
- having to do with many cultures