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AP Human Unit 3 Ch4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acculturation | Process of less dominant culture adopting traits of the more dominant one |
| Artifact | a materialistic item of culture |
| Assimilation | When the less dominant culture loses native customs completely |
| Cultural Diffusion | Spread of culture to areas surrounding the cultural hearth |
| Cultural Hearth | The area where a cultural trait first began |
| Cultural Imperialism | The practice of promoting and imposing a culture, usually of a politically powerful nations over less powerful societies |
| Culture | A collection of group customs |
| Culture Trait | A single attribute of a culture |
| Custom | repetitive act of a group, performed to an extent that it becomes a characteristic of a group |
| Designed Landscape | Landscape that embodies the ideals of the designer |
| Ethnocentrism | Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's culture |
| Ethnographic Landscape | Contains both cultural and natural resources important to a certain group of people |
| Folk Culture | traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas |
| Folk Culture Region | Culture group where norms are traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group of people living in relative isolation from other groups |
| Folk Music | Unknown composers and transmitted through oral tradition, contains important life event, and is often used to teach successive generations about culturally relevant topics. |
| Habit | repetitive act that an individual performs |
| Historic Site | important because of a historic event, person, or activity |
| Independent Innovation | Cultural traits develop in different hearths from interaction from one another |
| Indigenous cultures | Culture group made up of the original inhabitants of a territory that is distinct from the dominant national culture |
| Material Culture | houses, furniture, instruments, books |
| Popular culture | Made up of large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits |
| popular music | Music written and performed specifically for being sold to a large group of people |
| subculture | A group that shares in some parts of the dominant culture but has their own distinctive values, norms, language, and/or material culture |
| syncretic | combination of different cultural concepts into one |
| taboo | Restriction of a behavior by religious law or social custom |
| terroir | Sum of effects on a particular food item of soil |
| transculturation | Two way flow of culture between the dominant and less dominant culture |
| uniform landscapes | Area looks the same |
| vernacular landscape | Landscape that comes about through use over time |
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