Chapter 4-7 Mc Flashcards
Popular culture
Found in large heterogenous societies that share a certain habit despite differences in other personal characteristics
Origin of folk culture
Anonymous origins
Origin of pop culture
Product of a specific place like developed country
Diffusion of folk culture and pop culture
Folk/ slow smaller - relocation diffusion
Pop/ rapid extensively - hierarchical diffusion
Origin of soccer
Folk custom in England during 11th cent - Danish revolution - soldiers kick head - child copy w/ cow bladder - competition between villages - banned by King Henry 2 - revived by King James 1 1603 - became more pass than a pass time in 1800 - eventually pop culture in 19 cent
Material culture includes what three things
Clothes food shelter
People made houses with what materials
Any resource available to them
Middle Atlantic style house is characterized as
2 stories
Lower Chesapeake tide water houses are characterized as
1 story with steep roof
New England house characterized as
Box shaped
Ranch style house was popular in what years
In 1935 -1975 most common style in us
Amish people
1/4 mill in 19 us states - came from Switzerland (Europe ) moved to Ohio Illinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ontario Canada, and most in SW Kentucky
Order of language tree
Language family Language branch Language group Language Dialect
Logograms are
Symbols that represent words like Chinese
The biggest language family’s are
Indo European ( Europe) and Sino Tibetan (China Southeast Asia)
Info Europeans is the most widely —— language family
Used
What do people in sub sub Saharan Africa speak
95 percent speak Niger Congo
English is part of what language family
Indo European fam
Germanic branch
West Germanic group
What are the Romance languages
4 most used are: Spanish Portuguese French Italian
English came from what country
Came from britains Anglo Saxons
Dialect is
Regional variation of language distinguished by distinct vocab, spelling and pronunciation
Isoglass is
Word usage boundaries
Dialects have different
Spelling
Vocab
Pronunciation
Lingua Franka is
Common language that is used between two people who speak different languages
Linguistic fragmentation
A lot of languages spoken in one area
Ex Africa and Arabic (Afro asiatic Lang)
Today is dialect of English come from what colony
Middle colony
Any formally owned British colonies will have
English speakers
Most important Lang in South America
Spanish and Portuguese
South African languages
Clickers
Africaaner
English
Neisure Congo family
Celtic languages are spoken is some parts of France true or false
True
Celtic languages are threatened by English
True