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| A body of thought that emphasizes that humans and nonhumans are linked together in a dynamic set of relations that, in turn, influence human behavior. It challenges the idea that humans have free will. |
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| A branch of geography centered on the study of people, places, spatial variation in human activities, and the relationship between people and the environment. This is contrary to physical geography. |
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| An offshoot of cultural ecology that studies how economic forces and competition for power influence human behavior, especially decisions and attitudes involving the environment. Paul Robbins in Lawn People says that there are numerous forces working that cause us to care for our lawn other than we just want to. |
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| A social creation consisting of shared beliefs and practices that are dynamic rather than fixed, and a complex system that is shaped by people and, in turn, influences them. |
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| The physical characteristics of a place, such as its topography, vegetation, and water resources. |
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| The geographic context of a place, including its political, economic, social, or other characteristics. |
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| Changes in the distribution of a phenomenon from one place or area to another. |
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| The degree to which two or more phenomena share similar distributions. A good example is the relationship between forest density and poverty levels. |
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| The arrangement of phenomena on or near the Earth's surface |
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| The movement of a phenomenon, such as an innovation, information, or an epidemic, across space and over time. How does fashion, gossip, a flu virus, or hi-tech gadgets spread through a population? These questions get at the core of spatial diffusion. |
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| The tapering off of a process, pattern, or event over distance. Population density decreases the further the distance from the city. Burglars usually strike within a close radius to their house. |
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| The practices, attitudes, and preferences held in common by large numbers of people and considered to be mainstream. Music, TV shows, video games, cars, clothing. Rapid change in the way of fads is a characteristic of popular culture. |
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| An ancient form of traditional chinese medicine that promotes healing through the insertion of needles into the body at specific points |
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| Medical practice that seeks to cure or prevent ailments with procedures and medicines that have typically been evaluated in clinics |
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| Financial, social, intellectual, or other assets that are derived from human creativity and are used to create goods or services |
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| Entity consisting of individuals or businesses that control the production or sale of a commodity or group of commodities, often worldwide |
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| The conversion of an object, a concept, or a procedure once not available for purchase into a good or service that can be bought or sold |
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| Diamonds sold to finance wars or terrorist activities |
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| Broadly defined as the use of goods to satisfy human needs and desires |
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| The idea that global and local forces interact and that both are changed in the process |
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| Enterprises, such as museums, monuments, and historical and archaeological sites, that manage or market the past |
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| The practices, attitudes, and preferences held in common by the members of a community in a particular place. |
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| The interrelationship between an awareness of cosmic forces and human use of the environment |
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| A system of water supply that uses shaft and tunnel technology to tap underground water resources |
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| The attitude and belief that Europeans were rational and that non-Europeans, especially colonized peoples, were irrational; closely associated with diffusionism |
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| The social ties, networks, institutions, and trust that members of a group use to achieve mutual benefits. |
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| Medical practices, derived from a society's long-established health-related knowledge and beliefs, that are used to maintain or restore well-being |
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| The common structures - dwellings, buildings, barns, churches, and so on - associated with a particular place, time, and community |
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| The number of people under the age of 15 and over the age of 65 as a proportion of the working-age population |
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| The number of people per unit area of land |
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| Protection from persecution granted by one country to a refugee from another country |
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| The temporary, often cyclical, relocation of an individual or a group from one place to another |
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| Internally Displaced Persons |
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| People forcibly driven from their homes into a different part of their country |
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| The long-term or permanent relocation of an individual or group from one place to another |
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| Favorable conditions or attributes of a place that attract migrants |
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| Unfavorable conditions or attributes of a place that encourage migration |
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| One who flees to another country out of concern for personal safety or to avoid persecution |
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| In migration studies, the process by which immigrants develop and cultivate ties to more than one country |
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| A language that develops from a pidgin language and is taught as a first language |
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| A particular variety of language characterized by distinctive vocabulary, grammar, and/or pronunciation |
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| A language that is no longer taught to children by their parents and is not used for everyday conersation |
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| A language that has no living speakers |
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| A place or region where an innovation, idea, belief, or cultural practice begins |
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| A system of communication based on symbols that have agreed-upon meanings |
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| A collection of languages that share a common but distant ancestor |
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| A language that is used to facilitate trade or business between people who speak different languages |
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| The assortment of languages in a particular area |
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| Linguistic Diversity Index |
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| A measure that expresses the likelihood that two randomly selected individuals in a country speak different first languages |
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| A situation in which one language becomes comparatively more powerful than another language |
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| A word that originates in one language and is incorporated into the vocabulary of another language |
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| A language that combines vocabulary and/or grammatical practices from two or more languages that have come in contact |
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| The belief that there is no deity |
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