Concepts
Food preferences, architecture and land use are examples of this.
What is a cultural trait?
Using or speaking several languages
Multilingual
The body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits that together constitute a group of people’s distinct tradition.
What is Culture?
Process by which a cultural trait SPREADS from one place to another
Diffusion
Rapid spread of cultural trait WITHOUT REGARD to Class, Race, or any other cultural hierarchies
Contagious Diffusion
religion that can be PLANTED and GROWN in ANY culture throughout the world
Universalizing Religion
Describes the process by which idea behind a cultural trait STIMULATE a NEW, BUT related cultural trait
Stimulus Diffusion
The process by which a powerful state ESTABLISHES SETTLEMENTS in another place for the purpose of ECONOMIC or political gain
Colonialism
The spread of an idea through physical movement of people from one place to another
Relocation diffusion
The process where individuals or groups adopt the traits and social patterns of another culture while still retaining some aspects of their original culture.
What is acculturation?
These are historical causes of diffusion.
What are Colonialism, trade and imperialism?
The process of less dominant cultures losing their culture to a more dominant culture
What is Assimilation?
Describes a TOP-down spread of cultural trait
Starts with people or places with power/authority and filters down to the lower population
Hierarchical diffusion
When two cultural ideas are joined and produce a new cultural idea?
What is syncretism?
Spread of a cultural trait BEYOND a cultural hearth APART from the movement of people
Expansion Diffusion
Human interaction with nature helps form this.
What is a cultural landscape?
What is is the belief that one’s own culture is the best or better than other cultures?
What is ethnocentrism?
Which religion originated in South Asia and subsequently spread throughout much of Southeast and East Asia?
Buddhism
This religion spread through relocation, conquest and trade in Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Asia Minor.
What is Islam?
a common language adopted by people of many different languages IN ORDER to FACILITATE communication
Lingua Franca
Indo-European is an example of this.
What is a language family?
The Gullah language is spoken in African-American communities of the coastal southeastern United States, particularly in South Carolina, Georgia, and northeastern Florida. It is a combination of Elizabethan English and African dialects that has become a full language. One can describe Gullah as a what?
What is a creolized language?
result of different cultures adopting common cultural traits so that they become more alike than different
- can endanger and in some cases wipe out Indigenous cultures
Convergence
urban neighborhoods where a culturally distinct minority group concentrates, preserving their language, traditions, and way of life while interacting with the surrounding majority culture
Ethnic Enclaves
The phenomenon where advancements in transportation and communication technologies lead to a perceived "shrinking" of the world, meaning places feel closer and interactions between them become faster and more frequent is known as what?
Time-space compression