Aphuman terms

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Local (Folk/Ethnic) Culture

1. Culture traditionally practiced by a small, homogeneous, rural group living
in relative isolation from other groups.

Acculturation

2. The adoption of cultural traits, such as language, by one group under the influence of another.

African Traditional Religion

3. Various, mostly animistic religions based in nature and ancestor worship
or veneration is a significant component.

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Animism

4. Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like
thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and conscious life.

Cultural Appropriation

5. Process by which other cultures adopt customs and knowledge and use
them for their own benefit.

Architecture

6. The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings.

Artifacts

7. Tangible object made by human beings, either hand-made or mass-produced.

Assimilation

8. The process through which people lose originality differentiating traits,
such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into
contact with another society or culture.

Behavior

9. Observable actions or responses of humans or animals.

Beliefs

10. Tenets or convictions that people hold to be true.

Branch

11. A large and fundamental division within a religion.

Buddhism

12. The teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by
desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases and that enlightenment
obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one
from desire and suffering and rebirth.

Caste
System

13. A set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society.

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Centripetal Force

14. An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.

Centrifugal Force

15. A force that divides people and countries.

Chinese Traditional Religion

16. A combination of Buddhism with Confucianism, Taoism, and other traditional religions practiced in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

Christianity

17. A monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and
emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior.

Colonization

18. The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish
settlements and control the people.

Contagious Diffusion

19. The rapid, widespread diffusion of a feature or trend throughout a population.

Creole/Creolized
Language

20. A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with
the indigenous language of the people being dominated.

Cultural Convergence

21. The tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly
share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by
improved transportation and communication.

Cultural Divergence

22. The likelihood or tendency for cultures to become increasingly dissimilar
with the passage of time.

Cultural
Hearth

23. Locations on Earth's surface where specific cultures first arose.

Cultural Landscape

24. The visible imprint of human activity and culture on the landscape.

Cultural Relativism

25. The practice of judging a culture by its own standards.

Custom

26. The frequent repetition of an act, to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group of people performing the act.

Dialect

27. A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling,
and pronunciation.

Ethnicity

28. A social division based on national origin, religion, language, and often
race.

Ethnocentrism

29. Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in
the standards and customs of one's own culture.

Gender

30. The socially constructed roles and characteristics by which a culture
defines male and female.

Globalization

31. Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making
something worldwide in scope.

Hierarchical Diffusion

32. The spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node of authority
or power to other persons or places.

Hinduism

33. A religion and philosophy developed in ancient India, characterized by
a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being who takes many forms.

Imperialism

34. A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries
politically, socially, and economically.

Indigenous Language

35. Language native to a region and spoken by the indigenous people of that
region.

Indigenous People

36. Descendants of the people who first lived in a region.

Indo-European Language

37. A family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including
most major languages of Europe, Iran, and northern India, and historically
also predominant in Anatolia and Central Asia.

Islam

38. A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which
stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written
in the Quran.

Judaism

39. A religion with a belief in one god. It originated with Abraham and the
Hebrew people.

Language Extinction

40. The point at which a language no longer has any active speakers.

Language Family

41. A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.

Lingua Franca

42. A language used among speakers of different languages for the purposes
of trade and commerce.

Local (Ethnic/Folk) Religion

43. Religion that are spiritually bound to particular regions.

Material Culture

44. Tangible, physical items produced and used by members of a specific
culture group and reflective of their traditions, lifestyles, and technologies.-

Monotheism

45. Belief in one God.

Multiculturalism

46. Culture found in a large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits
despite differences in other personal characteristics.

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Non-material Culture

47. The beliefs, practices, aesthetics, and values of a group of people.

Norms

48. Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its
members.

Pilgrimage

49. A journey to a place considered sacred for religious purposes.

Polytheism

50. Belief in many gods

Race

51. A group of human beings distinguished by physical traits, blood types,
genetic code patterns or genetically inherited characteristics.

Relocation Diffusion

52. The spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from
one place to another.

Sacred Space

53. Place or space people infuse with religious meaning.

Secularism

54. An indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded
from civic affairs and public education.

Sense
of Place

55. The feeling that an area has a distinct and meaningful character.

Sequent Occupancy

56. the notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a
place, each contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape

Sikhism

57. A monotheistic religion that developed in India in the 1400s.

Stimulus Diffusion

58. The spread of an underlying principle, even though a specific characteristic is rejected.

Syncretism

59. A blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one
faith.

Time-space Convergence

60. The idea that distance between some places is actually shrinking as
technology enables more rapid communication and increased interaction
among those places.

Universalizing Religion

61. A religion that attempts to appeal to all people, not just those living in a
particular location.

Ubranization

62. The process of making an area more urban.

Values

63. The ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide
the way you live.

Homogeneous

64. Of a similar kind.

Hetergeneous

65. Differing in kind dissimilar varied

Toponym

66. the name given to a place on Earth

Expansion Diffusion

67. when an idea spreads from where it originated and stays strong where it
started

traditional architecture

68. traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places

Culture

69. Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.

cultural trait

70. The specific customs that are part of the everyday life of a particular
culture, such as language, religion, ethnicity, social institutions, and aspects
of popular culture.

indigenous community

71. communities that live within or are attached to geographically distinct
traditional habitats or ancestral territories and who identify themselves as
being a part of a distinct culture group.

Ethnic Neighborhood

72. an area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background-