Anthropology 2 Chapter 15 Notes Santa Monica College

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Primary Innovation

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The creation, invention, or chance discovery of a completely new ideas, method, or device.

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Secondary Innovation

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The deliberate application or modification of an existing idea, method or device.

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Diffusions

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The spread of certain ideas, customs, or practices from one culture to another.

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Cultural Loss

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The abandonment of an existing practice or trait.

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Acculturation

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Massive cultural change that occurs in a society when it experiences intensive firsthand contact with a more powerful society.

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Ethnocide

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The violent eradication of an ethnic group’s collective cultural identity as a distinctive people, occurs when a dominant society deliberately sets out to destroy another society’s cultural heritage.

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Tradition

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Customary ideas and practices passed on from generation to generation, which in modernizing society may form an obstacle to new ways of doing things.

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Syncretism

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In acculturation, the creative blending of indigenous and foreign beliefs and practices into new cultural forms.

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Rebellion

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Organized armed resistance to an established government or authority in power.

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Revolution

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Radical change in a society or culture. In the political arena, it involves the forced overthrown of an old government of a completely new one.

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Modernization

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The process of political and socioeconomic change, whereby developing societies acquire some of the cultural characteristics of western industrial societies.