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20 Cards in this Set
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Acculturation
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The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another
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Animism
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Most prevalent in Africa and the Americas; the world is seen to have supernatural powers
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Creole
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A pidgin language that evolves over time to become the primary language to the people who speak it
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Cultural Complex
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The group of traits that define a particular culture
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Cultural Imperialism
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The dominance of one culture over another
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Denomination
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A particular religous group, usually associated with different Protestant belief systems
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Diaspora
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People who come from a common ethnic background but who live in different regions outside of their home ethnicity
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Ecumene
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The proportion of the Earth that is inhabited by humans
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Evangelical Religions
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Religion in which an effort is made to spread a particular belief system
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Language Family
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A collection of many languages that came from the same tongue, but it has developed many different characteristics
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Local Religion
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Religions that are spirtually bound to particular regions
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Pidgin
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Language that may develop when when two groups of people with different languages meet. the pidgin has characters of both languages
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Pilgrimage
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A journey to a place of religous importance
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Romance Languages
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Any of the languages deriving from Latin including Italian, Spanish, French, Poruguese and Romanian
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Shaman
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The single person that takes on the roles of priest, counselor and physician in a Shaminist culture
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Sino-Tibetan family
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Language area that spreads through most of the Southeast Asian areas and China. It is compromised of Chinese, Burmese, Tibetan, Japanese and Korean
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Syncretic
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Traditions that borrow both from that past and present
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Toponym
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Place names given to certain features on the land such as settlements and terrain features
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Universalizing Religion
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Religion that seeks to unite people from all over the world
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Folk Culture
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Refers to a lot of cultural practices that form the sights, smells, sounds and rituals of everyday existence in traditional society in which they developed
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