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| 13457953 | Cargo Cult Pilgrimage | Cargo Cult's believe western goods have been traded to them by ancestral spirits. It takes place in Melanesia and is important HG concept because it's a big religious movement by a large number of people. | |
| 14816825 | Custom | A representative act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group. A habit that a group has widely adopted. | |
| 14816826 | Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. | |
| 14821133 | Acculturation | The exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact. | |
| 14821533 | Assimilation | The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture. | |
| 14935756 | Folk House | houses that reflect cultural heritage, current fashion, functional needs, and the impact of environment. The form of each house is related in part to environmental as well as social conditions. | |
| 14935757 | Folk Songs | composed anonymously and transmitted orally. A song that is derived from events in daily life that are familiar to the majority of the people; songs that tell a story or convey information about daily activities such as farming, life cycle events, or mysterious events such as strorms and earthquakes. | |
| 15009061 | Cultural ecology | The study of how human society has adapted to enviromental challenges. | |
| 15009207 | Cultural identity | Is the way people catogorize there culture, sometimes by the way they dress and what they eat ect. | |
| 15079668 | Cultural Diffusion | The spreading of cultural traits from one society to another | |
| 15079669 | Innovation Adoption | The diffusion of new ideas | |
| 15084549 | Culture Trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban. | |
| 15084550 | Culture Complex | A related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils. | |
| 15097736 | Cultural Adaptation | Adjusting a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language. | |
| 15097737 | Cultural core/periphery pattern | The core-periphery idea that the core houses main economic power of region and the outlying region or periphery houses lesser economic ties. | |
| 15104010 | Toponymy | The place name of a region or language. The study of such place names | |
| 15104011 | Traditional Architecture | traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places | |
| 15106099 | Folklore | The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally. | |
| 15106100 | Material Culture | The physical objects created by a culture; the buildings, tools, and other artifacts created by the members of a society | |
| 15125496 | Economic Determinism | The doctrine that all social, cultural, political, and intellectual forms are determined by or result from such economic factors as the quality of natural resources , productive capability, technological development, or the distribution of wealth. | |
| 15125497 | Society | An organized group of of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. | |
| 15127104 | Habit | A repetitive act that a particular individual performs | |
| 15127105 | Architectural Form | The look of housing, effected by the available materials,the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time. | |
| 15140256 | Culture Hearth | Place of origin of a major culture | |
| 15140257 | Culture System | A collection of interacting elements taken together shape a group's collective identity. Includes traits, territorial affiliation, shared history, and more complex elements, like language | |
| 15166273 | Folk Culture | Local life style, traditional culture in a small area | |
| 15166274 | Folk Food | Food eaten in a special way of a small area, usually something in the area | |
| 15261969 | Maladaptation | poor or inadequate adaptation that occurs when a group pursues an adaptive strategy that, in the short run, fails to provide the necessities of life or, in the long run, destroys the environment that nourishes it | |
| 15261970 | Sequent Occupance | succeeding stages of human inhabitation over time on one site | |
| 15314153 | possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. | |
| 15314154 | cultural determinism | The belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. | |
| 15314155 | transculturation | The exchange and mixture of different cultures around the world. | |
| 15314156 | environmental determinism | A now outdated theory that the environment is the sole determining factor in how a society develops. It is the opposite of possibilism. | |
| 15314157 | globalization | An action or process that takes place on a world-wide scale. | |
| 15314158 | cultural leg | A slower rate of change in a society as compared with others; the failure of the nonmaterial culture to keep up with developments in the material culture. | |
| 15555390 | non-material culture | A component of cultre that consists of the intangible or abstract human creations of society that influence people's behavior (such as taboos, ideas about right & wrong, etc). | |
| 15555391 | popular culture | Culture that is a product of more developed countries (large, heterogeneous societies); diffuses rapidly through modern communication systems and creates a more uniform landscape. | |
| 15555392 | cultural landscape | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. In other words, it is the man-made or built environment. | |
| 15555393 | cultural realm | The entire region that displays the characteristics of a culture. For example, Latin America is a cultural realm because the entire region speaks a language based on Latin (i.e., the Romance languages). | |
| 15555394 | culture | The body of customary beliefs, material traits (clothing, housing, food), and social forms that make up the distinct traditions of a group of people. | |
| 15555395 | culture regions | A portion of the Earth's surface occupied by a population sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics. | |
| 15555396 | cultural perception | The varying attitudes and ideas that culture groups have regarding how space, place, and territory are identified and used. | |
| 15555397 | cultural environment | An environment that has developed as a result of a specific culture group's economic and social activities. |
