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Culture Terms

Culture Terms. Warm-Up. What is a taboo and how does this relate to the study of culture?. Culture Trait. Single Feature of a Culture Examples Type of clothing System of Religious beliefs. Culture Complex. Group of individual traits that are interconnected.

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Culture Terms

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  1. Culture Terms

  2. Warm-Up • What is a taboo and how does this relate to the study of culture?

  3. Culture Trait • Single Feature of a Culture • Examples • Type of clothing • System of Religious beliefs

  4. Culture Complex • Group of individual traits that are interconnected. • Keeping Cattle is a culture TRAIT • Keeping cattle PLUS the traits that cattle is a measure of wealth in the society, they drink the milk or cattle blood, and the herders have an elevated status is society is a CULTRE COMPLEX

  5. Material Culture=Artifacts: • Tangible Things • Examples: • Tools • Weapons • Furniture

  6. Nonmaterial Culture= Mentifacts&Sociofacts: • Mentifacts (ideas, values, and beliefs of a culture) • Examples: • Language • Religion • Artistic pursuits • Folk Stories • Myths

  7. Sociofact- describe how cultural traits take on a life of their own, spanning over generations • Examples: • Educational and Political Institutions • Religious Organizations • Family Structure

  8. Distinctions are not always clear cut. A house is artifact, sociofact (expresses the nature of the family), and mentifact (reflects the culture groups beliefs about architecture and building materials

  9. Cultural Diffusion: The movement of people, ideas and goods from one location to another • Cultural Hearth: Places where innovations originate and spread from • Examples: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Indus River Valley and West Africa

  10. Cultural Barriers: hindrance to diffusion, such as a taboo, which prevents habits from establishing themselves in a society because of already established prohibitions, customs, and rules • Food Taboos: Hindus and Beef, Muslims and Jews with Pork, Somali Clans with Fish

  11. Acculturation: Change that occurs within a culture when it adopts a practice from another culture (Mongols adopting Chinese culture) Adopting some of the cultural traits of a host/larger culture • Transculturation: when an equal exchange of traits or influence between two groups or cultures occurs • Syncretism: the birth of new trait from blending two or more cultural traits • Assimilation: the process by which immigrants become totally integrated • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31356213

  12. Globalization- increasing interconnection of all regions in the world through politics, communication, transportation, marketing, manufacturing, and social and cultural processes. • Culture region- a portion of earth’s surface occupied by populations sharing recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics. • Cultural landscape and built environment- it comprises the physical implications of human culture wherever a human culture exists, the landscape reflects their culture. • Sequent occupance- the succession of cultures leaving their mark in a shared space or territory often over generations of time.

  13. Independent innovation- when many hearths invent similar innovations without knowing each other.

  14. S Curve: Diffusion often follows an S curve adoption pattern

  15. Cultural Convergence: process by which 2 cultures adopt each others traits and become more alike • Culture Realm- merging together of culture regions • Culture Identity-

  16. Cultural Determinism- the environment places no restrictions on humans whatsoever • Political Ecology: the government of a region affects the environment which in turn affects the choices available to the people • Folklore: Stories passed form generation to generation. Jack tales: stories that involve Jack and his adventures (Jack and the beanstalk)

  17. Popular Culture: practice of customs that span many cultures and have a global culture • Natural Landscape: deals with the physical earth • Adaptive Strategy: how a person adapts to a new culture • Folk Songs: describe a group of people

  18. Food Cultures: UK= fish and chips, E. Asia= snake, Andies= guinea pigs, Tanzania= worms with peanutbutter • Folk Food: attributed to a particular people or culture • U.S. Food Cultures: New England= clam chowder, Maine/Cape Code= Lobster, South= fried chicken, collared greens, BBQ, peach cobbler

  19. Sports and Culture: Soccer(Football) is the most popular sport in the world • Hooligans: Soccer fans who incite violence (usually by yelling out remarks at players or fans) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOXiQToz64 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ThJblpDLs&feature=related • Architecture and Culture: Housing trends vary and can depend on climate and building materials

  20. Architecture • Modern & Contemporary (in notes already) • Traditional: Structures built as the city was being established • Indigenous: Built by the Natives • House Types: ( see notes) • Anglo- American- influenced by British

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