Culture Change And Applies Anthro. Flashcards

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Borrowing

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The adoption of something new from another group

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Innovation

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The invention of qualitatively new forms. Involves the recombination of what people already know into something different

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Diffusion

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Another word for borrowing often used by anthropologists who trace how an innovation is borrowed from one group to another

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Acculturation

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The process of change that occurs due to cultural contact

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Applied anthropology

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Includes any use of anthropological knowledge to influence social interaction maintain or change social institutions or direct the courts of cultural change

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Public interest anthropology

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4 goals:
1 study of people affected by foreign policy
2 emphasis on the human consequences of public policy
3 production of advice for policy makers
4 empowerment of those affected by policy

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Adjustment anthropology

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Uses anthropological knowledge to make interactions more predictable between people who use different cultural codes

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