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| The process of culture change, usually selective and partial, and sometimes forced, in one population that has come into contact with another. |
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| The subfield of anthropology that studies human physical variety, maturation, the primates, environmental adaption, and human evolution |
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| A complex society supported by intensive food production and organized around large urban centers providing administrative, commercial, artistic, and religious leadership |
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| A conceptual model of reality created and shared by a group |
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| The learned, shared understandings among a group of people about how to behave and what everything means |
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| The process of learning a culture |
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| The cultural differences that some ethnic group members may intentionlly display to distinguish themselves form other groups |
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| A group within a society that maintains a subculture based on religion, language, common origin, or ancestral traditions. |
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| One's identification with or participation in an ethnic group |
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| A written description of a culture, usually a descriptive narrative based upon participant observation |
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| The change process in which societies are drawn into greater interaction through trade, communications, corporate and bureaucratic structures, and travel |
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| Culturally constructed categories used to divide humans into seperate groups based upon an arbitrary selection of physical characteristics |
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| The belief that actual or alleged differences between racial groups indicate the superiority if one of them |
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| Restraining judgement of another culture in order to learn about it. Acknowledging that other cultures shoule be judged only in terms of their own circumstances and history. At the extreme, denying that there are culture-free standards by which to judge other cultures |
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| A group of people organized into social relationships to perform certain tasks such as feeding and defending themselves and raising children |
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| that particular mix of shared understandings held by groups within a larger society |
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| A sound, object, idea, image, or action to which its users assign an arbitrary meaning |
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| A phenomenon with mutually influential relationships among its part |
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