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AP Human Unit 3 Ch4

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Acculturation   Process of less dominant culture adopting traits of the more dominant one  
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Artifact   a materialistic item of culture  
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Assimilation   When the less dominant culture loses native customs completely  
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Cultural Diffusion   Spread of culture to areas surrounding the cultural hearth  
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Cultural Hearth   The area where a cultural trait first began  
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Cultural Imperialism   The practice of promoting and imposing a culture, usually of a politically powerful nations over less powerful societies  
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Culture   A collection of group customs  
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Culture Trait   A single attribute of a culture  
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Custom   repetitive act of a group, performed to an extent that it becomes a characteristic of a group  
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Designed Landscape   Landscape that embodies the ideals of the designer  
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Ethnocentrism   Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's culture  
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Ethnographic Landscape   Contains both cultural and natural resources important to a certain group of people  
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Folk Culture   traditionally practiced by small, homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas  
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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  
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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.  
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Habit   repetitive act that an individual performs  
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Historic Site   important because of a historic event, person, or activity  
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Independent Innovation   Cultural traits develop in different hearths from interaction from one another  
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Indigenous cultures   Culture group made up of the original inhabitants of a territory that is distinct from the dominant national culture  
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Material Culture   houses, furniture, instruments, books  
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Popular culture   Made up of large, heterogeneous societies that share certain habits  
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popular music   Music written and performed specifically for being sold to a large group of people  
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subculture   A group that shares in some parts of the dominant culture but has their own distinctive values, norms, language, and/or material culture  
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syncretic   combination of different cultural concepts into one  
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taboo   Restriction of a behavior by religious law or social custom  
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terroir   Sum of effects on a particular food item of soil  
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transculturation   Two way flow of culture between the dominant and less dominant culture  
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uniform landscapes   Area looks the same  
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vernacular landscape   Landscape that comes about through use over time  
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