Post on 29-Dec-2015
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Cultural traits: expressions of culture
▪ beliefs ▪ clothes, food▪ “building blocks” of culture
Masai of Kenya: centered on cattleU.S. football: sports culture
How do cultural traits diffuse?
Hearth: the point of origin of a cultural trait.
Contagious diffusion
Hierarchical diffusion
Little Sweden (Lindsborg, Kansas): Is the Swedish Dala horse part of material or nonmaterial
culture?
acculturation: a process in which members of one cultural a process in which members of one cultural group group adoptadopt the beliefs & behaviors of another the beliefs & behaviors of anotherassimilation: one cultural group dominated by another: one cultural group dominated by anothersyncretism: the merging of two different cultural forms : the merging of two different cultural forms ex: ex: SanteriaSanteria
Phoenix Indian School, 1900
Pocahontas in England 1616
With Distance Decay, diffusion decreases as distance from hearth increases.
With Time-Space Compression, the likelihood of diffusion depends technology
Main Branches:
• Germanic - Dutch, German
• Romance - Spanish, French
• Baltic-Slavic - Russian
• Indo-Iranian - Hindu, Bengali
Lingua franca:a language widely spoken (Ex: English as global business language)
Pidgin language:combination of two or more languages into a simplified vocab (for trade; Ex: Swahili)
Creole language:a pidgin that has become an official language
“No eat da candy, Bruddah, it's pilau. Da thing wen fall on da ground.”
TOPONYM: a place name
Devil’s Tower, WY Badwater, Death Valley
Mt Cook, New Zealand
Cook Islands, Polynesia
group beliefs (rituals, religious landscapes)
Universalizing Religions: Christianity Islam Buddhism
Ethnic Religions: Judaism Hinduism