Final Chapter Flashcards
A homogenous nation (same culture traits)
National culture
The attitude that one’s own culture is best
Ethnocentrism
Major language of India
Dravidian
A spatial dispersion of a previously homogenous group
Diaspora
Eating dirt for medicinal purposes
Geophagy
Equal sharing of two cultures of ideas and technology when they come together
Transculturation
The disappearance of a cultural groups identity when they come in contact with another culture
Assimilation
Changes that occur in a culture one contact with another culture
Acculturation
Raising livestock
Pastoralism
Adjustments to the wishes of spirits or animal
Geomancy
Human decisions control cultural development
Possiblism
Regional variations of vocabulary or speech
Dialects
Pigeon English in the Caribbean region
Creolization
The way of life of a group of people
Culture
No specific religion is practice in the region
Secularism
What is important in one culture is not in another
Cultural relativity
The Mormons
Subnational culture
Diffusion of Judaism into Central Europe
Ashkenizim
Increase segregation of a region overtime
Spatial divergence
Racial policies practice in south Africa before 1994
Apartheid
Cultural and religious groups centered in Utah today
Mormons
An American folk culture mostly in the Midwest
Amish
Reservations in south Africa before 1994
Homelands