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Folk Culture
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| Traditional practices of small groups, especially rural people with a simple lifestyle (compared with modern/ urban people). Eg. Amish in Pennsylvania or Roma people "gypsies" |
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Popular Culture
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| The practices and meaning systems produced by large groups of people whose normans and tastes are often heterogeneous and change frequently, often in response to commercial products. |
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| a characteristic and tangible outcome of the complex interactions between a human group (with its own practices, preferences, values, and aspirations) and its natural environment. |
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A single aspect of the complex of routine practices that constitute a particular cultural group)
Eg.Canon law of fasting Lent for catholics.
Eg. Jewish Muslims and Hindus avoiding Pork |
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| Acts, costumes, practices, or procedures that recognize key transitions in human life (birth, menstruation, marriage..) |
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The combination of traits characteristics of a particular group
Celebrations, rituals, diets.. |
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The spatial dispersion of a previously homogeneous group.
Leads to spread of religions from their traditional sites of practice, kind of why its hard to map contemporary global distribution of religions |
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| The geographic origins or sources of innovations, ideas, or ideologies. |
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| An effort to protect regional and national cultures from the homogenizing impacts of globalization, especially from the penetrating influence of U.S. culture |
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| is a set of practices and identities that a given culture considers related to each other and to those things it considers sexual acts and desires. |
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| the practice of creating unequal castes based on the norm of whitness |
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| Socially created system of rules about who belongs and who does not belong to a particular group based upon or perceived commonality. |
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| Is a problematic classification of human beings based on skin color and other physical characteristics. |
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