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APHG Folk and Pop Culture

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Vernacular Regions   show
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Toponymy   show
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Syncretism   show
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Sense of Place   show
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show In possibility, different environmental conditions offer both restraints and opportunities to people living in various regions.  
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show Loss of distinct local features in favor of standardized landscapes. Happens as a result of pervasiveness of pop culture and mass production and availability of a wide variety of consumables.  
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show Conveys a notion of cultural productions fueled by mass media and consumerism. Included visual and performing arts, culinary arts, architecture and city planning, music, fashion, sports leisure activities and other forms of entertainment.  
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Folk Culture   show
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show Cultural traits are formed and controlled by environmental conditions. Certain types of people, who come from cultures that arose in certain physical environments, may be smarter, more attractive, or more able to govern themselves as a result.  
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show Process by which an idea or innovation is transmitted from one individual or group across space. Relocation diffusion involves spacial spreading as a result of physical movement to a new place.  
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show Dominance of one culture over another. Historically, often occurred as a result of colonization. Occurs in present day as pop culture, which is so easily diffused across national boundaries; causes local traditions to either die or become commercialized  
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show Specific customs that are part of everyday life, including language, religion, ethnicity, and social institutions. All have hearth, or place of origin.  
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Culture   show
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Cultural assimilation   show
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show When integration of new arrivals into the economirticAc and cultural mainstream of a host society is complete. Behavioral assimilation is essentially acculturation; integration into a common cultural life through language, intermarriage, and shared exper  
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show Refers to adoption of cultural traits by one group under the influence of another. May occur as a result of immigration, when immigrant populations take on the values, customs, and other cultual traits of a receiving society  
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Artifacts   show
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show Comprise the ideological subsystem of culture; including ideas, beliefs, and knowledge, and how these things are communicated.  
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Sociofacts   show
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show Refers to spaces that have been modified by human activity. Includes houses an other structures that human activity takes place in, but also includes reservoirs, parks, dams and other facilities that reflect human-induced change in the landscape.  
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show The style of a particular culture or society's buildings, which varies dramatically over space and time. Example, sacred buildings or houses of worship, thorough their form and structure.  
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