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Folk Culture |
small homogeneous population- people see themselves as collective or community share customs and try to preserve them in order to claim uniqueness assimilation authenticity cultural landscape |
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Popular Culture |
large changes quickly heterogeneous population- people across identities and across the world diffusion: transportation, marketing -hierarchical diffusion |
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cultural appropriation |
process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use them for their own benefit |
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neolocalism |
seeking out the regional culture and reinvigorating it in response to uncertainty of modern world ex: Hutterites adopting technologies that advance their agricultural persuits |
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ethnic neighborhoods |
creating a tight-knit place to practice their customs within a major ex: Italian Americans in Boston |
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commodification |
process which something that previously was not regarded as an object to be bought or sold becomes an object that can be bought, sold, or traded in world market ex: famous person's tissue |
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time-space compression |
explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked two places are through transportation and communication technologies
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reterritorialization |
one aspect of popular culture will take on new forms when it encounters a new locality and the people and local culture in that place ex: "Mipsterz" |
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placelessness |
describe loss of uniqueness of place in the cultural landscape so that one place looks the same as the next |
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glocalizatiton |
people in a local place mediate and alter regional, national, and global processes |
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folk-housing regions |
New England house: "saltbox" house, elaborate colonial style, fire place in center of house Mid-Atlantic house: one room log cabin, stone chimney and fireplace at one end of house(warmer so did not have to be in middle) Southern house: usually only one story, characteristic porch, raised platform(reduce interior heat) |
