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33 Cards in this Set
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folk culture
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culture trationally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation from other groups.
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pop culture
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culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits depite differences in other personal characteristics
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creole
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a language that resutls from the mixing of a colonizer's lang. with the indigenous lang. of the ppl being dominated
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dialect
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a gerional varity of a language distinguished by vocab. spelling and pronunciation
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isogloss
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a boundary that separates regions in whcih different language usages predominate
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language family
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a collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history
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language group
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a collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and siplay relatively few differences in grammar and vocab.
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lingua franca
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a language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different navtive languages
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official language
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the language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of buiness and publication of documents
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pidgin language
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a form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocab. of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages
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animism
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belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstoms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious lfie.
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ethnic religion
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a religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which its adherents are concentrated
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universalizing religion
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a religion that attempts to appeal to all people, no just those living in a particular location.
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E.G Ravenstein
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think migration laws!
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Hinduism
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-ethinic religion
-Karma -Reincarnation -not a big emphasis on worshiping god(s) -Rigvedas, Brahmanas, Unpanishads -caste system |
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Buddhism
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-India
-moral philosophy in reaction to buddhism -Personal salvation achieved trhough four noble truths -reation to materialism |
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christianity
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-largest
-universalism -most amount of branches (now regions) |
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Confucianism
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stives fro empathy and ethical behavior
-political and social philosphy was blueprint for early chinese civilization |
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Taosim
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-ying and yang
-balance -oness of humanity and nature -people are just one part of a larger social order |
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Shintoism
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-ethnic religion of japan
-emphasizes importance of nature and spirits -influenced by buddhism |
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Grimm's law
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time and change are proportional in reference to languages
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assimilation
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the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups, not involving biological amalgamation.
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built environment
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refers to the man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places.
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cultural ecology
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studies the relationship between a given society and its natural environment - the life-forms and ecosystems that support its lifeways.The central argument is that the natural environment, in small scale or subsistence societies dependent in part upon it - is a major contributor to social organization and other human institutions. Particularly those concerned with the distribution of wealth and power in a society, and how that affects such behaviour as hoarding or gifting
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cultural landscape
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have been defined by the World Heritage Committee as distinct geographical areas or properties uniquely "..represent[ing] the combined work of nature and of man.." [1].
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sequent oppertunities
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series of different cultural groups and their effects on the land
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Indo-European Branch
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Germanic Branch
Indo-Iranian Baltic-Slavie (russian) Romance can find geographical root through common root words |
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Islam
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Five Pillars
- It means the submission to the will of god. Its a monotheistic religion originating with the teachings of Muhammad, a key religious figure. It is the second largest religion in the world. This is important to HG because it has impacted the world greatly, especially boundaries. |
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Sunni
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Orthodox muslisms
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muslim population
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Shiites-Iran, azerbajian, Iraq
Sunnies-northern Africa, middle east |
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sikhism
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a religion that began in sixteenth century Northern India . The principal belief in Sikhism is faith in Vāhigurū. Emphasizes faith in god. This is important to HG because its another minor religion in India that affects a lot of people.
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vihara and stupas
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buddhist architecture
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ethnocentrism
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is the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own culture
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