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Ch 4 Culture

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cultural landscape   Modifications to the enviorment by humans, including the built enviorment and agricultural systems, that reflect aspects if thier culture  
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Culture   The shared understandings that guide behavior and values and condition a group's perception of the world. Is learned from one generation to the net and evolves over time.  
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Culture region   a region defined by similar culture traits and cultural landscape features.  
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Culture trait   A defining characteristic of the culture that is shared by most, if not all, members  
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artifact   object made by human beings  
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folk culture   Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.  
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popular culture   Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics.  
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custom   a repetitive act of a group performed to the extent that it becomes a characteristic  
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habit   a repetitive act that a particular individual performs  
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taboo   a restriction on a behavior imposed by a social custom  
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uniform landscape   the spatial expression of a popular custom in one location that will be similar to another  
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cultural landscape   a landscape that has been changed by human beings and that reflects their culture  
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culture realm   a cluster of regions in which related culture systems prevail  
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culture hearth   a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward  
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material culture   The physical manifestations of human activities; includes tools ,campsites, art, and structures. The most durable aspects of culture  
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accultration   modifying cultural traits to conform to dominant culture  
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assimilation   adopting dominant culture  
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multicultralism   many cultures  
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globalization   spread world wide  
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terroir   contribution of envionment to taste of food  
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