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Geography vocab
chapter 4
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Geography
9th Grade
10/20/2012

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Hearth
Definition
the point of origin
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Assimilation
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where one dominant culture totally wipes out the other
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Transculturation
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where the cultures spilt ( 50/50 )
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Acculturation
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when two cultures come together and the weaker culture will adopt to the stronger one but it won't entirely change ( 80/20 )
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Culture
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a group of belief systems, norms and values practiced by a people
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Material Culture
Definition
art, houses, clothing, sports, dance, and food
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Local Culture
Definition
a group of people in a particular plaace who see themselves as a collective or a community, who share experiences, custom, and traits, and who work to preserve those traits and customs in order to claim uniqueness and to distinguish themselves from others
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Nonmaterial Culture
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beliefs, practices, aesthetics ( what they see attractive ), and values of a group of people.
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Folk Culture
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small populations or small regions of the world with people who tend to go to rural ( remote ) places so they aren't infuenced by the outside world.
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Popular Culture
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large groups of people influenced by the media and is typically urban
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Culture Trait
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a single attribute of a culture
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Expansion Diffusion
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when an innovation or idea develops iin a hearth and remains strong there while also spreading outward
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Contagious Diffusion
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a form of expansion diffusion in shich nearly all adjacent individuals and places are affected
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Cultural Appropiation
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the process through which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit
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Customs
Definition
practices that a group of people routinely follow
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Neolocalism
Definition
seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in responce to the uncertainty of the modern world
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Commodification
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the process through which something that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought and sold becomes an objecgt that cane be bought, sold, and traded in the world market
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Distance Decay
Definition
the likelihood of diffusion decreases as time and distance from the hearth increases
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Time-space Compression
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the likelihood of diffusion depends on the connectedness among places
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Reterritorialization
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a term reffering to the process in which people start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their own culture and place, making it their own
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Cultural Landscape
Definition
visible imprint of human activity on the lanscape
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Placelessness
Definition
used to describe the loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape to the point that one place looks like the next
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