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AP Human Unit 3 Ch4
Question | Answer |
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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 |