____________ is traditionally practiced by small homogeneous groups living in isolated rural areas.
What is folk culture
100
The three main ethnic religions.
What are Hinduism, Judaism, and Animism (African Ethnic Religions)
100
Countries designate this kind of language as their _____ and it is used by the government for laws, reports, and public objects.
What is official language
100
Focused geographic ares where important innovations are born and from which they spread
What is cultural hearth
100
a pidgin language that has developed a more complex structure and vocab and has become the native language of a group of people
What is a creole language
200
The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture.
What is assimilation
200
Mahayana, Theraveda, and _____ are the three branches of Buddhism.
What is Tantrayana
200
This is the geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs.
What is isogloss
200
the longer and farther it has to go, the less likely it will get there
What is time-distance decay
200
The central, enduring elements of a culture expressing its values and beliefs, including language, religion, folklore, and etc.
What is a mentifact
300
______ culture spreads through hierarchical diffusion while ______ spreads through relocation diffusion of more specifically migrant diffusion.
What is Popular culture and Folk culture
300
Christianity is to temple as Buddhism is to _____
What is a Stupa
300
This is a language of communication and commerce spoken across a wide area where it is not a mother tongue.
What is lingua franca
300
a near equal exchange between culture complexes
What is transculturation
300
when a culture is substantially changed through interaction with another culture
What is acculturation
400
A related set of culture traits descriptive of one aspect of a society’s behavior or activity (may be associated with religious beliefs or business practices.)
What is a culture complex
400
Christianity is divided into ____ which are then divided into ______ which are then broken up into the smallest units called _____.
What are Branches, Denominations, Sects
400
46 percent of the world speak a language in this family.
What is Indo European
400
nearly all adjacent individuals are affected
What is contagious diffusion
400
an assemblage of culture (or geographic) regions, the most highly generalized regionalization of culture and geography
What is a culture realm
500
includes all human-induced changes that involve the surface and the biosphere. Carl Sauer: “ the forms superimposed on the physical landscape by the activities of man.”
What is the cultural landscape
500
The three universalizing religions started with these three founders.
Who are Jesus, Muhammad, and Siddhartha
500
This occurs when a lack of spatial interaction among speakers of language breaks the language into dialects and then new languages
What is language divergence
500
spread of an underlying principle
What is stimulus diffusion
500
This religion focused on the mystical and magical aspects of life.