APHUG Unit 4 Vocab

Monotheistic

Belief in a single, powerful god or deity

Polytheistic

Belief in multiple gods or deities

Assimilation

Suppressing a group’s customs and replacing them with the customs of the dominant culture

Cultural Appropriation

Taking elements of another culture and using them for one’s own benefit

Neolocalism

The process of re-embracing, preserving, or reinvigorating local culture in response to globalization

Glocalization

Adjusting global products or ideas to fit local cultures and practices

Animism

Belief that natural objects and phenomena have spirits or life forces

Ethnic Religion

A religion tied to a specific place or ethnic group

Universalizing Religion

A religion that seeks to appeal to all people, not just those in a specific location

Cultural Landscape

How cultural activities appear on the landscape

Placelessness

Loss of a place’s unique cultural features, making it look similar to others

Reterritorialization

Reproducing or adapting cultural traits in a new location

Commodification

The process of giving something a monetary value

Standard Language

A dialect that is published and widely used for official purposes

Dialect

A regional variation of a language spoken by a specific group

Isogloss

A boundary marking where different linguistic features occur

Creolized Language

A language created from mixing a colonizer’s language with an indigenous language

Language Divergence

When a language breaks into new dialects or languages over time

Fundamentalism

Strict and literal interpretation of religious principles

Secularism

Belief that religious practices should be separate from government or public life

Pilgrimage

A journey to a sacred religious site

Conquest Theory

The theory that Indo-European languages spread through early conquest and dominance

Lingua Franca

A common language used for trade by people with different native languages