Diffusion
the spread of a cultural trait by people who migrate and carry their cultural traits with them
What is relocation diffusion
composed of the shared practices, technologies, attitudes, and behaviors transmitted by a society
What is culture
What is Christianity
A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
What is a language family
occurs when an ethnic or immigrant group moving to a new area adopts the values and practices of the larger group that has received them, while still maintaining major elements of their own culture
What is acculturation
the spread of cultural traits through direct or indirect exchange without migration
what is expansion diffusion
practice routinely followed by a group of people
what is a custom
A religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Yahweh was responsible for the world and everything within it. They preserved their early history in the Old Testament
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or as old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that the branches derived from the same family.
What is a language branch
when an ethnic group can no longer be distinguished from the receiving group
What is assimilation
occurs when a cultural traits spreads continuously outward from its hearth through contact among people
what is contagious diffusion
A blending of two or more cultural or religious traditions
What is syncretism
A religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms
what is Hinduism
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.
What is a language group
What is the "ism" meaning anti-immigrant
What is nativism
spread of culture outward from the most interconnected places or from centers of wealth and importance
what is hierarchical diffusion
an area in which a unique culture or a specific trait develops
what is a cultural hearth
the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century combining elements of Hinduism and Islam
Sikhism
a cultural process where foreign influences are absorbed and integrated with local meanings (a type of syncretism)
What is creolization
evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.
What is ethnocentrism
occurs when people in a culture adopt an underlying idea or process from another culture, but modify it because they reject one trait of it
what is stimulus diffusion
behaviors heavily discouraged by a culture
what is taboo
A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammad which stresses belief in one god (Allah) and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims.
What is Islam
A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia
What is Indo-European
the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape
What is sequent occupancy