Culture Change Flashcards
What are the 2 ways culture can gain traits?
Invention, Difusion
What is Invention in this context?
The trait emerges from within the culture
eg: light bulb (new idea + hard work)
wheel (old custom for new purpose)
What is Diffusion in this context?
The trait comes from another culture.
2 main ways that diffusion happens are trade and missionary activities
What is Acculturation?
It is when one culture becomes significantly like other culture.
Depends on power balance (arms power and economic power)
What is Assimilation?
It is one culture becomes completely like another culture.
What is Syncretism?
It is traits from two or more cultures come together to make a new trait (a form of symbolic fighting back)
eg: Jazz, Haitian Voodoo
What is Applied Anthropology?
using anthropological knowledge for practical purposes.
What is Kuru?
It’s a diease only found in one culture
Almost exclusively affected women and children;
The women ate the dead relative body as funeral rituals;
women are prohibited from eating animal meat;
human meat a low status meat
What is Vicos?
It is a place, big farm;
In Peru, where peasants pay rent in form of labour;
Dead bondage;
Anthropologist gives the right of land to people.
Explain Haitian Agroforestry Project?
Anthropologist gave control of a commodity to the people.
What is Cultural Pluralism?
It is different cultures and subcultures exist in the same society.
What is Multiculturalism?
It is the idea that cultural pluralism is the good thing.
What is Diversity?
It is the idea that Multiculturalism is the good thing, emphasizing subcultures.
What is Pillage?
To strip an area of money, goods, or raw materials through the threat or use of physical violence
Corvee labor?
unpaid labor required by a governing authority
