Transcript Slide 1
Frank Leone
Felipe Morera
Austin Pezoldt
Adaptive Strategy
Definition: The unique way each culture uses its
particular environment; those aspects of culture that
serve to provide the necessities of life – food, clothing,
shelter, & defense.
Example: Fishing in Iceland
Built Environment
Definition: The part of physical landscape that
represents material culture; the buildings, roads,
bridges, and similar structures large and small, of the
cultural landscape.
New York City
Folk Culture
Definition: The body of instruction, customs, dress,
artifacts, collective wisdoms, and traditions of a
homogeneous, isolated, largely self sufficient, and
relatively static social group.
Folk Food
Definition: The retention in a new environment of the
food preferences and recipes that had their origin in a
different homeland.
Hunting and gathering, cultivating
food, and domesticating animals
suited to the environment.
Folk Housing
Buildings are limited in their materials by the
recourses available in the environment. This means
that if trees are available, then the houses will
probably be made of wood. If wood is not available
then the houses would be made of something else.
New England style houses
Folk Songs
Example: North American folk music began as
immigrants brought their songs to the new world and
began to Americanize them.
Definition: A song that normally is passed from mouth
to mouth through generations, as tradition.
Folklore
Definition: Legends, oral history, proverbs, and
popular beliefs that are the traditions of the culture.
Example: Fairy tales
Material Culture
The relationship between artifacts and social relations
A cellphone
Nonmaterial Culture
The nonphysical ideas that people have about their
culture
Beliefs, values, rules, norms, morals, language,
organizations, and institutions
(Abraham)
Popular Culture
Found in large heterogeneous societies, that share
certain habits despite differences in other
characteristics.
Wearing jeans
Creole
A pidgin language that requires fuller vocabularies and
becomes native languages.
Haitian Creole
Dialect
A variant form of a language were mutual
comprehension is possible.
The American vs British version of English
Indo-european languages
The largest and most wide spread language family
spoken on all continents.
Germanic,Romance,balto slavic, and indo iranian.
Isogloss
Indicate the border of individual words and
pronunciation
The southern dialect vs Midland dialect border.
Language
A mutual agreed system of symbolic communication.
English
Language family
Tongues that are related and share a common ancestor.
The afro-asiatic
Language subfamily
A sub division of a language family
French, Spanish, and Italian are inside the romance
family.
Lingua franca
A language of communication and commerce.
English
Linguistic diversity
The degree variability of language within a given area.
African tribal languages.
Monolingual
Someone who speaks only one language.
Multilingual
Someone who can speak more then two languages.
Official language
The required language of instruction in education, the
government, and activities.
French, in Chad
Pidgin
A amalgamation of languages usually a simpler form of
one, that borrows from another.
Congolese + French
Toponymy
Place name that can reflect a variety of things.
United Kingdom(UK)
Trade language
A language, used by speakers of different native
languages for communication in commercial trade.
English
Acculturation
The adoption by an ethnic group of enough of the ways
of the host society to be able to function economically
and socially.
The loss of native American societies.
Assimilation
The complete blending of an ethnic group into the
host society, reading in the loss of all distinctive ethnic
traits.
Immigrants coming to the united states.
Cultural adaptation
The complex strategies human groups employ to live
successfully as part of a natural system.
Immigrants learning the official language while in the
country.
Cultural ecology
Study of the relationship between cultural group and
its natural enviroment.
Japanese killing whales
Cultural idenity
The way one is influenced by belonging to a group or
culture.
Cultural landscape
The artificial landscape
The visible human imprints on the land
Cultural realms
An culture that has cultural distinction that
differentiate from other cultures.
Middle east
Culture
A total way of life held in common by a group of
people.
Speech,ideology,behaviors,living hood, technology, and
government.
Culture region
An area occupied by people who have something
formal
Formal: An area inhabited by people who have one or
more cultural traits in common
Language, religon.
Functional region
A area organized by a node or focal point.
Television stations in Iowa.
Vernacular region
One that is perceived to exist by its inhabitants.
Diffusion types
Expansion diffusion: An innovation or idea
develops in a hearth and remains strong there
while also spreading outward.
Hierarchical expansion: A pattern in which the
main channel of diffusion is some segement of
those who are susceptible to what is being diffused
Contagious diffusion:A form of expansion in which
nearly all adjacent individuals and places are
affected.
Relocation diffusion
The actual movement of individuals who have already
adopted the idea or innovation, and who carry it to a
new distant locale where they proceed to disseminate.
The distribution of AIDS in the united states.
Innovation adoption
Change to a culture that result from ideas created
within the socials group itself and adopted by the
culture.
Maladaptive diffusion
Diffusion in which image comes before practicality
Ranch style house
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