ANTH 1000 - Ch. 26

Question 1

primary innovation

Answer 1

The creation, invention, or chance discovery of a completely new idea, method, or device

Question 2

secondary innovation

Answer 2

the deliberate application or modification of an existing idea, method, or device

Question 3

diffusion

Answer 3

the spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another

Question 4

cultural loss

Answer 4

the abandonment of an existing practice or trait

Question 5

acculturation

Answer 5

Massive culture change that occurs in a society when it experiences intensive firsthand contact with a more powerful society

Question 6

ethnocide

Answer 6

The violent eradication of an ethnic group’s collective cultural identity as a distinctive people; occurs when a dominant society deliberately sets out to destroy another society’s cultural heritage

Question 7

tradition

Answer 7

customary ideas and practices passed on from generation to generation, which in a modernizing society may form an obstacle to new ways of doing things

Question 8

syncretism

Answer 8

In acculturation, the creative blending of indigenous and foreign beliefs and practices into new cultural forms

Question 9

rebellion

Answer 9

organized armed resistance to an established government or authority in power

Question 10

revolution

Answer 10

radical change in a society or culture. In the political arena, it involves the forced overthrow of an old government and establishment of a completely new one

Question 11

modernization

Answer 11

the process of political and socioeconomical change, whereby developing societies acquire some of the cultural characteristics of Wester industrial societies