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HuG Unit 3

Culture - Culture

TermDefinition
Acculturation The process by which a culture is transformed due to the massive adoption of cultural traits from another society--it is what happens to a culture when alien traits diffuse in on a large scale and substantially replace traditional cultural patterns.
Assimilation The process through which people lose originally differentiating traits, often used to describe immigrant adaptation to a new place of residence.
Anatolian Theory vs. Kurgan Theory Competing theories that dispute the point of origin and propose the dispersal of Proto-Indo-Europeans.
Built Environment Refers to the man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places.
Carl Sauer Geographer from the University of California at Bed defined the concept of cultural landscape as the fundamental of graphical analysis.
Cultural Adaptation Activities that facilitate the process of cultural assimilation.
Cultural Attributes Characteristics or quality of patterns of human activities.
Cultural Barriers Prevailing cultural attitude rendering certain innovations, ideas or practices unacceptable or unadoptable in that particular culture.
Cultural Identity The (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as she/he is influenced by her/his belonging to a group or culture.
Cultural Landscape The visible imprint of human activity on the landscape.
Cultural Realm The most highly generalized regions of culture in geography and are best seen on a world map. Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, is a cultural realm.
Cultural Synthesis (Syncretism) The blending of two or more cultural influences.
Culture A group of belief systems, norms and values practiced by a people.
Culture Complex A discrete combination of culture traits.
Culture Region An area defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features.
Culture Trait A single element of normal practice in a culture such as the wearing of a turban.
Folk Culture The practice of particular customs of a relatively small group of people that increases that group's uniqueness.
Heart Heartland, source area, innovation center; place of origin of a major culture.
Heterogeneous Composed of different parts or characteristics in a population.
Homogenous Composed of similar parts or characteristics in a population.
Innovation Adoption The embracing, accepting and spreading of new ideas and concepts.
Maladaptive Diffusion The spatial spreading of an innovation in to an area where it is not appropriate – like a house with a basement in coastal Georgia.
Material Culture The things humans construct such as art, houses, clothing, sports, dance and food.
Multiculturalism Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.
Nation A culturally defined group of people with a shared past and a common future who relate to a territory.
Non-Material Culture Beliefs, practices, aesthetics and value of a group of people, non-tangible things constructed by humans.
Taboo A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom..
Toponym The study of the practice of place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements, terrain features and streams.
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