GEOG 100 Chapter Notes -Subsistence Agriculture, Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Taxonomic Rank
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Culture: can be thought of as a bundle of charactristics of shared behavior or belief. These may include anything and everything about the way people live. cultural landscape: a landscape that reveals and reflects the many ways people their local environment. Numan cultures are certainly never static or fixed in nature; they are constantly changing. The forces that cause these cultural chagne divided into 2 categories: Evolutionism the most inportant sources of cultural change are rooted in cultures and chang occurs within a culture. Diffusionism- empahsize how varioud aspects of cultures spread out from the places they orginate and are therefore adopted by other people. The process is known as cultural diffusion and the process of adopting some aspect of another culture i called acculturation assiminlation to integrtion. Cultural diffusion can be actively imposed, as when an outside power conquers a region and imopses its way of life.