Anthropology Chapter Two Ferry

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Acculturation

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The exchange in cultural features that results when groups come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.

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Core Values

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Key, basic, or central values that integrate a culture and help distinguish it from others.

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Cultural Relativism

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The position that the values and standards of cultures differ and deserve respect.

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Cultural Rights

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Certain rights are vested not in individuals but in identifiable groups, such as religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous societies.

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Diffusion

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Borrowing between cultures either directly or through intermediaries.

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Enculturation

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The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generations

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Ethnocentrism

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The tendency to view one's own culture as best and to judge the behavior and beliefs of culturally different people by one's own standard

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Generality

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Cultural pattern or trait that exits in some but not all societies

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Globalization

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The accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems.

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Hominid

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A member of the taxonomic family that includes humans and the African apes and their immediate ancestors.

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Hominins

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A member of the human lineage after it's split from ancestral chimps; used to describe all the human species that have ever existed.

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Human Rights

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Usually seen as vested in individuals; a realm of justice and morality beyond and superior to particular countries, cultures, and religions.

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Independent invention

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Development of the same culture trait or pattern in separate cultures as a result of comparable needs and circumstances.

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Intellectual property rights (IPR)

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Each society's cultural base- it's core belief and principles. IPR is claimed as a group right

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International culture

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Cultural traditions that extend beyond national boundaries.

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National culture

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Cultural experiences, beliefs, learned behavior patterns, and values shared by citizens of the same nation.

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Particularity

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Distinctive or unique culture trait, pattern, or integration.

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Subcultures

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Different cultural symbol- based traditions associated with subgroups in the same complex society.

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Symbol

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Something verbal or nonverbal that arbitrarily stands for something else, with which it has no necessary or natural connection.

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Universal

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Something that exists in every culture.