Cultural Anthropology: Process Of Change

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Primary Innovation

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

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Secondary Innovation

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A new and deliberate application or modification of an existing idea, method, or device

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Diffusion

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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 culture 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 whne a dominant society deliberately sets out to destroy another society's cultural hertiage

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Genocide

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The physical extermination of one people by another, either as a deliberate act or as the accidental outcome of activities carried out by one people with little regard for their impact on others

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Tradition

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Customary ideas and practices passed on from generation to generation, which in a 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 blending of indigenous and foreign bleiefs 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 forces overthrow of an old government and establishment 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 charachterisitcs of Western industrial societies