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This is Unit 3 with Concepts of culture, folk, pop, and language

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Possibilism   the viewpoint that arose as a criticism of environmental determinism, holding that human populations develop their own cultures within constraints set by the environment   show
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show a culture trait in the sociological subsystem, which is, the part of a culture that guides how people are expected to interact with each other and how their social institutions are structured    
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show the development of a new form of culture trait by the fusion of two or more distinct parental traits   Romans trying to convert non-Christians into Christians and developing holidays like Easter ETHAN  
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Hunter-gatherer   show  
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Ideological Subsystem   the complex of ideas, beliefs, knowledge, and means of their communication that characterize a culture, along with the technological and sociological subsystems   show
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Technological subsystem   show  
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show (parallel invention) innovations developed in two or more unconnected locations by individuals or groups acting independently   pyramids of Egypt and Mayan civilization pyramids HANNAH  
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innovation   introduction of new culture traits, whether ideas, practices, or material objects   show
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show a concept of independent but parallel cultural development advanced by the anthropologist Julian Steward to explain cultural similarities among widely separated peoples existing in similar environments but who could not have benefited from shared experiences borrowed ideas, or diffused technologies    
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Acculturation   show  
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Assimilation   show change of dress and behaviors an immigrant may go through when living in a new country ABIGAIL  
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show the process and time it takes a person to integrate into a new culture and feel comfortable within it. A person in this position may encounter a wide array of emotions that the theory describes in four different stages. This includes the honeymoon, culture shock, recovery, and adjustment stages.   American Indians adapting to listening to modern commodities through the years such as the introduction of jeans, cars, language, and music. NOLAN  
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Cultural Autonomy   show segregation ABIGAIL  
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Cultural Convergence   The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication.   show
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Cultural Divergence   show The Amish keep separation between themselves and other communities KENDALL  
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show The core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties. the visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.    
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Cultural identity   the identity or feeling of belonging to a group. It is part of a person's self-conception and self-perception and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture.   show
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Cultural landscape   the cultural impacts on an area, including buildings, agricultural patterns, roads, signs, and nearly everything else that humans have created   show
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cultural realm   show  
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Cultural system   the interaction of different elements of culture. While this is quite different from a social system, sometimes both systems together are referred to as the sociocultural system.   show
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show refers to a geographical area with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities (culture). These are often associated with an ethnolinguistic group and the territory it inhabits.    
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Expansion Diffusion   show  
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Stimulus Diffusion   MOVE CARD   show
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Innovation Adoption Curve   show  
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show diffusion of an idea or innovation that is not suitable for the environment in which it diffused into (e.g., New England-style homes in Hawaii, or Ranch-style homes in northeast US).    
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Subsequent Occupancy   show The African nation of Tanzania has passed from the hands of one ruler to another with the culture traits of each AUGUSTINE  
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Public Land Survey System   show  
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Vernacular House   show  
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Vernacular Region   show Tidewater, tri city area KENDALL  
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show mits or boundaries of a tract of land as identified by natural landmarks, such as rivers, or by man-made structures, such as roads, or by stakes or other markers. A principal legal type of land description in the United States, metes-and-bounds descriptions are commonly used wherever survey areas are irregular in size and shape.    
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show system implemented in Quebec, Louisiana, Texas or areas of French influence, that divide the land into narrow parcels stretching back from rivers, roads, or canals    
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show A cultural landscape, as defined by the World Heritage Committee, is the "cultural properties [that] represent the combined works of nature and of man." "a landscape designed and created intentionally by man" an "organically evolved landscape" which may be a relict (or fossil) landscape or a continuing landscape   Native American Reservations KENDALL  
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Rectangular Survey System   show  
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show s a term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1947 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures.   Buddhism originated in India but spread around and merged with Confucianism. ETHAN  
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show Describes a society's system of economic production -helps explain some of the differences between societies that are influenced by economy.    
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Anglo-American Landscape   show  
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Characteristics   show religion, language, arts, and social organizations SAMAR  
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show the look of housing, effected by the available materials, the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time    
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Built Environment   show  
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show A culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in isolation.   The banjo & fiddle are traditional instruments in 'folk culture' NATHAN  
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Folk Food   Food that is traditionally made by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture.   show
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show traditional housing   pioneer homes like ,log cabin style homes SAMAR  
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show traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture; typically no skill is required   "this land is your land" SAMAR  
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show unwritten lore (stories, proverbs, riddles, songs) of a culture    
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show a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.   brushing your teeth every morning and every night is a habit ABIGAIL  
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Taboo   a social or religious custom prohibiting or forbidding discussion of a particular practice or forbidding association with a particular person, place, or thing.   show
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show the complete natural environment in which a particular wine is produced, including factors such as the soil, topography, and climate.    
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show efers to the physical objects, resources, and spaces that people use to define their culture. These include homes, neighborhoods, cities, schools, churches, synagogues, temples, mosques, offices, factories and plants, tools, means of production, goods and products, stores, and so forth.   cars, books, clothing, computer, etc. SAMAR  
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show Thoughts or ideas that make up a culture. does not include any physical objects or artifacts. include any ideas, beliefs, values, norms that may help shape society.    
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Popular Culture   culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than an educated elite   show
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show systems that are used to collect data    
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show traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places    
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show Group of people in a particular place who see themselves as a collective or Community, who share experiences, customs, and traits and who worked to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others   the south's teachings of using politeness such as "yes ma'am or no sir" as well as holding the door open which is commonly not done in the north United States NOLAN  
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Custom   show in Japan people greet each other by bowing KENDALL  
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Cultural Appropriation   The process by which cultures adopt customs and knowledge from other cultures and use them for their own benefits   show
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Neolocalism   show People from China in Chinatown in NYC still celebrate their Chinese culture and holidays, such as the Chinese New Year. ETHAN  
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Ethnic Neighborhood   show Chinatown HANNAH  
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Commodification   show salt was used for money and big deals KENDALL  
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show In the context of local cultures are Customs, the accuracy with which a single stereotypical or Typecast image or experience conveys an otherwise dynamic and complex local culture or its customs    
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Distance Decay   show  
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Reterritorilization   show when the Spanish conquered the Aztecs, they eliminated all Aztec symbols AUGUSTINE  
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Placelessness   show  
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show The notion that would happens at the global scale has a direct effect on what happens at the local scale, and vice versa. This idea posits that the world is comprised of an interconnected series of relationships that extend across face    
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show The process by which people in a local place mediate and alter Regional, National, and Global processes   mcdonald’s ABIGAIL  
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Folk-housing region   show  
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Diffusion Routes   The spatial trajectory through which cultural traits or other phenomena spread   show
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Creolized Language   show  
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Backward Reconstruction   The tracking of sound shifts and hardening of consonants backwards towards the original language   show
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show The ability of two people to understand each other when speaking   Spanish and Portuguese KENDALL  
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Geographic Dialect   A language variant marked by vocabulary, grammar, or pronunciation differences from other variants of the same common language. When those variations are spatial or Regional, they are called Geographic dialects. When they are indicative of socio-economic or educational levels, they are called social dialects   show
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show Technique using the vocabulary of an extinct language to recreate the language that preceded the extinct language    
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Dialect Chains   show  
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Ebonics   Dialect spoken by some African-Americans   show
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Extinct Language   A language that was once used by people in daily activities but is no longer used   show
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show The system of writing used in China and other East Asian countries in which each symbol represents an idea or concept rather than a specific sound as is the case with letters in English    
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Isogloss   A geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs   show
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show A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family    
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show A set of sounds, combination of sounds, and symbols that are used for communication    
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show A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or is old with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family    
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Language Family   show  
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Language Group   A collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary   show
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Language Subfamily   a smaller group of related languages within a language family   show
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show French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Portuguese that lie in the areas that were once controlled by the Roman Empire but we're not subsequently overwhelmed    
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Germanic Language   show  
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Slavic Languages   Russian, polish, Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Slovenian, serbo-croatian, and Bulgarian that developed as Slavic people migrated from a base in present-day Ukraine close to 2000 years ago   show
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show Language family containing the Germanic and romance languages that includes languages spoken by about 50% of the world's people    
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show Language area that spreads through most of Southeast Asia and China and is comprised of Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese, and Korean    
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Afro-Asiatic   A large language family found primarily in North Africa and Southwest Asia   show
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Niger-Congo   show  
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Malayo-Polynesian   show  
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show The process suggested by German linguist August Schleicher whereby new languages or formed when a language breaks into dialects due to a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of the language and continued isolation eventually causes the division of the language into discrete new languages   Spanish and Portuguese is a language that has been broken down into two forms AUGUSTINE  
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Language Convergence   show  
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show A term driving from Frankish language and applying a tongue spoken in ancient Mediterranean ports that consisted of a mixture of Italian, French, Greek, Spanish and even some Arabic. Today it refers to a Common Language a language used among speakers of different languages for the purpose of trade and commerce    
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Global Language   The language used most commonly around the world defined on the basis of either the number of speakers of the language, or prevalence of use in Commerce and trade   show
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Literary Tradition   show  
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show the amount of variation of languages a place has    
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Monolingual States   Countries in which only one language is spoken   show
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Multilingual states   show  
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official language   In multilingual countries the language selected, Often by the educated and politically powerful Elite, to promote internal cohesion. Usually the language of the courts and government   show
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Pidgin   When parts of two or more languages are combined in a simplified structure and vocabulary   show
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show A multilingual state    
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show The common ancestor of a family of modern languages    
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Sound shift   show  
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show Linguistic hypothesis proposing the existence of an ancestral Indo-European language that is the Hearth of the ancient Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit languages which Hearth would link modern languages from Scandinavia to North Africa and from North America through parts of Asia to Australia    
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Nostratic   show  
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show Place name    
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Trade Language   A language used between native speakers of different languages to allow them to communicate so that they can trade with each other.   show
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Standard Language   The variant of a language that a country's political and intellectual Elite seek to promote as the norm for used in schools, government, the media, and other aspects of public life   show
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show fluency in at least two languages   I speak both English and Spanish AUGUSTINE  
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Vernacular   The non-standard indigenous language or dialect of a locality. Of or related to indigenous arts and architecture, such as a house period of or related to the perceptions and understandings of the general population, such as a region   show
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Vulgar Latin   A form of Latin used in Daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents   show
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Renfrew Hypothesis   Hypothesis developed by British scholar Colin Renfro wherein he proposed that three areas in and near the first agricultural hearths, the Fertile Crescent, gave rise to three language families: Europe's Indo-European languages from Anatolia, North African and Arabian languages from the Western Arc of the Fertile Crescent, and the languages in present-day Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India from the Eastern Arc of the Fertile Crescent   show
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Kurgan Theory   The Proto-Indo-European language diffused from modern day Ukraine through CONQUEST   show
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culture complex   MOVE CARD   show
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show A society's Collective beliefs, symbols, values, forms of behavior, and social organizations, together with its tools, structures, and artifacts created according to the group's conditions of Life. Transmitted as a Heritage to succeeding generations and undergoing adoptions, modifications, and changes in the process. A collective term for group displaying uniform characteristics    
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