| Term | Definition |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| Taboo | A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom. |
| Acculturation | The exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact. |
| Assimilation | The process whereby a minority group gradually adopts the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Cultural ecology | The study of how human society has adapted to enviromental challenges. |
| Cultural identity | Is the way people catogorize there culture, sometimes by the way they dress and what they eat ect. |
| Cultural Diffusion | The spreading of cultural traits from one society to another |
| Innovation Adoption | The diffusion of new ideas |
| Culture Trait | A single element of normal practice in a culture, such as the wearing of a turban. |
| Culture Complex | A related set of culture traits, such as prevailing dress codes and cooking and eating utensils. |
| Cultural Adaptation | Adjusting a translation based on the cultural environment of the target language. |
| 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. |
| Toponymy | The place name of a region or language. The study of such place names |
| Traditional Architecture | traditional building styles of different cultures, religions, and places |
| Folklore | The traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally. |
| Material Culture | The physical objects created by a culture; the buildings, tools, and other artifacts created by the members of a society |
| 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. |
| Society | An organized group of of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes. |
| Habit | A repetitive act that a particular individual performs |
| Architectural Form | The look of housing, effected by the available materials,the environment the house is in, and the popular culture of the time. |
| Culture Hearth | Place of origin of a major culture |
| 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 |
| Folk Culture | Local life style, traditional culture in a small area |
| Folk Food | Food eaten in a special way of a small area, usually something in the area |
| 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 |
| Sequent Occupance | succeeding stages of human inhabitation over time on one site |
| 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. |
| cultural determinism | The belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. |
| transculturation | The exchange and mixture of different cultures around the world. |
| 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. |
| globalization | An action or process that takes place on a world-wide scale. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| cultural landscape | The fashioning of a natural landscape by a cultural group. In other words, it is the man-made or built environment. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| culture regions | A portion of the Earth's surface occupied by a population sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics. |
| cultural perception | The varying attitudes and ideas that culture groups have regarding how space, place, and territory are identified and used. |
| cultural environment | An environment that has developed as a result of a specific culture group's economic and social activities. |
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