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Semes and Genes in Africa Cultural diffusion may be popular among postmodern and ethnohistorical anthropologists because it is so easy to see in today's world-- Western capitalistic culture is rapidly diffusing throughout the world without the movement of Euroamericans. Culture change with horizontal transmission can be rapid depending upon the frequency of exposure to semes; the one-to-many form is especially conducive to rapid culture change and is common today but was rare in the past. Cultures are likely to share semes because of demic diffusion and associated mechanisms of cultural transmission (vertical and group effect) when they exhibit genetic, linguistic and geographic patterns (1), (2) and (3) in Table 2. www.vancouver.wsu.edu /fac/hewlett/semes.html   (6737 words)

Culture: A Geographical Perspective Culture, the total way of life that characterizes a group of people, is one of the most important things that geographers study. Culture characterizes Earth as well; for it is primarily through the agency of their culture that people interact with and modify Earth’s surface. Cultural diffusion concerns the spread of culture and the factors that account for it, such as migration, communications, trade, and commerce. www.emsc.nysed.gov /ciai/socst/grade3/geograph.html   (5632 words)

CHAPTER 2 A Culture Region is a portion of the earth’s surface occupied by populations that have recognizable and distinctive cultural characteristics. Cultural Ecology is the study of the relationship between a culture group and the natural environment it occupies. Cultural Convergence is the tendency for cultures to become more alike as they increasingly share technology and organizational structures in a modern world united by improved transportation and communication systems. faculty.mc3.edu /wbrew/CGEONOTES/CHAPTER2.htm   (581 words)

Diffusion (anthropology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term 'diffusion' or diffusionism is used in cultural anthropology to describe the spread of cultural items — such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, etc. — between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another. Attempts to explain similarities between two cultures by diffusion are often criticized for being ethnocentric, since they imply that the supposedly "receptors" would not be capable of innovation. Those disputed are fueled in part by the overuse of cultural diffusion, starting in the late 19th century, as a blanket explanation for all similarities between widely dispersed cultures. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diffusion_(anthropology)   (911 words)

Diffusion Although culture as a whole is necessarily postnatal, some of its components may be prenatal. Transmission of culture from one community to another is known as acculturation. When diffused, each invention has to be, to some extent, reinvented in the minds of the receivers. www.neara.org /topics/diffuse.htm   (3540 words)

World Culture Report: Statistical Tables and Cultural Indicators The culture indicators in the Report do not pretend to measure world culture - the culture of the world is far more complex and multi-faceted. In this respect, the 1986 UNESCO Framework for Culture Statistics might be used by Member States as a starting point and it would also be very useful to revise this Framework to take into account the rapid cultural changes that have taken place in the last ten years. Some cultural indicators, such as radios and televisions per inhabitant, are reliable and fairly comprehensive as are many of the indicators found in the tables of the last part on the cultural context. www.unesco.org /culture/worldreport/html_eng/wcr7.shtml   (843 words)

Cultural Authentication Cultural Authentication is a process of assimilation in which an artifact, item, or idea external to a culture is adopted and changed. Cultural authentication is a concept that has been found useful in interpreting the cultural diffusion of costume between western and non-western cultures. In Cultural Authentication Refined: The case of the Hawaiian Holoku, the author describes the cultural authentication of the holoku, an integral part of Hawaiian women's dress since the early 1800's. udel.edu /~orzada/CulturalAuthent.htm   (772 words)

Notes on the development of cultural ecology Culture and ecology are extremely broad topics by themselves and the nature of their linkage is even broader. Over time and history the culture core (subsistence patterns) was seen as having evolved largely in response to the relevant parts of the particular or "effective environment" exploited (soil, climate etc.). Thus, groups with different cultural features may co-reside and even diverge culturally because these differences are adaptive for their respective exploitation of different resources in the same area. www.indiana.edu /~wanthro/eco.htm   (2050 words)

CULTURAL DIFFUSION AS NATURAL PROCESS Something very, very complex is going on, and "culture" is the linguistic symbol we use to refer to it while we try to figure it out. However, while there appears to be a general "mixing" of cultural artifacts on a global scale, it seems to occur first by means of communications technologies, and secondly by interpersonal communication. This sort of "Darwinian" view of cultural diffusion suggests that the upwelling of new cultural forms may never stop. www.rdillman.com /Dillman/Courses/COM3372/comlexity-culture.htm   (2194 words)

Custom essay on Geography / Cultural Geography - Essay Empire ...Cultural region is a region delineated by the aggregation of a common culture such as religion or language. Culture in and of itself can be regionalized or spread throughout a country or the whole world. Relocation diffusion is the process by which a member of a local culture moves to another geographic area for any reason, including the notion of spreading his or her culture. www.essayempire.com /samples/geography/geographycultural/29.html   (706 words)

Chapter 9: Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages For Pierre Bonnassie, culture of the mountain dwellers of the eastern Pyrenees prior to A.D. 1000 was explicable in terms of pre-Roman and even pre-Celtic foundations, which crop up "in the archaism of a language still influenced by the Basquoid substrate, the maintenance of pre-Christian beliefs," and in elements of Roman and Visigothic law. Shifting cultural referents, either by conversion or by migration, Jews were likely both to be receptive to cultural stimuli of different origins and to be able to assess the market for cultural innovation in the host society. The answer seems to lie in such concepts as social and cultural crystallization, which indicate that societies and cultures are most open to innovation in their formative periods, after suffering structural loss, and when, as a consequence, social and cultural norms are in a state of flux. libro.uca.edu /ics/ics9.htm   (8172 words)

Cultural diffusion Summary Diffusion is among the rare concepts used across the physi... Cultural diffusion refers to the spread of ideas and material culture, especially if this diffusion occurs independently of population movement. Cultural diffusion is the spreading of cultural trait from one society to another. www.bookrags.com /Cultural_diffusion   (150 words)

Culture Change: Glossary of Terms the process by which a culture is transformed due to the massive adoption of cultural traits from another society--it is what happens to a culture when alien traits diffuse in on a large scale and substantially replace traditional cultural patterns. Culture loss is accelerated during periods of acculturation and transculturation. In this interaction, ethnocentrism and the desire to defend ethnic boundaries generally inhibits clear communication and cultural diffusion. anthro.palomar.edu /change/glossary.htm   (1616 words)

[No title] Culture is the way of life of a large group of people. The students may not have a great understanding of culture at this moment, but by the time we are done with this activity/lesson the students will have a better understanding. The movement of culture from one group to another is called cultural diffusion. www.geocities.com /duke69z/CulturalDiffusion.doc   (1403 words)

Historical Framework By looking at various aspects of the culture and putting together their inter-relatedness we formed a broad picture of a culture that was deeper than any of us had anticipated. Godzilla illustrates a particularly specific version of cultural diffusion between Japan and America; that of the evolution of an idea which has become part of both cultures and which was also directly caused by viciously oppositional events of the two cultures, World War II and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Culture is not merely represented by the elements that we most associate with it, such as music or art, but is also a reflection of such underlying social structures as economics, politics, media relations, technology, and gender roles. www.umich.edu /~wewantas/history.html   (790 words)

Cultural diffusion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Many anthropologists prefer cultural diffusion as an explanation for the spread of ideas and culture in the past, as opposed to theories based on the migration of peoples. Dictionary.com defines cultural diffusion as: "in anthropology, the process by which a cultural trait, material object, idea, or behavior pattern is spread from one society to another; also called diffusion" Indirect diffusion happens when traits are passed from one culture through a middleman to another culture, without the first and final cultures ever being in direct contact. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cultural_diffusion   (363 words)

Towards a Cognitive Memetics: Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms for Memes Selection and Spreading Culture is a set of expectations and prescriptions on the members of the group: each member expects and wants the others behave according to cultural traditions (prescriptions) about what to do (think and feel), when and how. For example the probability of survival of a given belief or behaviour after a catastrophe destroying a population or a culture, or after an invasion, is greater when that meme is very diffused in that population. The fact that in all these mechanisms (especially the first two) adoption and replication are strongly influenced by perceived diffusion shows that the notion of 'social proof' [16] is a vague and broad category covering different processes, not a single and precise mechanism (as proposed for example by Hedstrom [27]). cfpm.org /jom-emit/2001/vol5/castelfranchi_c.html   (8394 words)

Cultural Collage Thus, their cultural heritage is an important source of strength and guidance in their daily lifestyle. Through this lesson, children will be able to investigate their cultural heritage and make observations on how much influence their past has on their current values and lifestyles. Children will be able to make a cultural food dish from their heritage and learn more about the different kinds of food in their particular country. www.hawaii.edu /hga/ASGI00/culturalcollage.html   (1016 words)

The Privatization of Culture Project at New York University With respect to diffusion, the least that we might say is that if it is not the State's domain to produce culture, support for its diffusion should be its major responsibility, especially in a country of continental dimensions like Brazil. When the term diffusion is used, many people think only of the expansion of cultural tourism, which comprises a very important industry, so that more foreigners will be attracted to Brazil. In a country like Brazil, cultural diffusion should have as high a priority as basic education; it should be considered an essential part of our formation as a Nation. www.nyu.edu /pages/projects/privculture/papers/weffort.htm   (1451 words)

mexika.org | Cultural Diffusion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Some Mayas are excited at the prospect of the first feature film made in their native tongue, Yucatec Maya. But others among the 800,000 surviving Mayans are worried that Gibson's hyper-violent, apocalyptic film could be just the latest misreading of their culture by outsiders. He speaks Yucatecan Maya so eloquently that when young people who have begun to lose their language and culture first hear him, they shed tears for what has been and what can be in the Yucatán. www.mexika.org   (348 words)

Assortative Social Networks and Neutral Cultural Evolution It is a common-place observation that there are strong relationships between cultural traits and social attributes; that different social groups accept and transmit different bits of culture. Thus, culture is completely socially-neutral, and every cultural trait is just as well adapted as every other. Their surprising (to me) result is that, in equilibrium, the distribution of states (i.e., cultural traits) has to be same for all guilds. bactra.org /notebooks/neutral-cultural-networks.html   (1117 words)

Lesson Plans - Culture in the Cupboard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Analyzing the items that are found in a home's cupboards and closets can tell us much about the residents' cultural heritage and what cultural influences affect their lives. This lesson will help your students to identify some of the cultures new to their part of the world and to understand more about cultural diffusion. Students should note their best educated guess at the place of cultural origin (which may not be the same as the site of manufacture!) for each of the items in the bag. www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/10/g68/culture.html   (538 words)

Technology - A Change in My Culture? Have students use the components of culture and write a brief description of their culture, including at least one statement about each component. Have students create a collage of pictures from at least four countries that illustrates a pattern of cultural diffusion (i.e., the use of terraced rice fields in China, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines; the use of satellite television dishes in the U.S., England, Canada, and Saudi Arabia; the spread of the internet). Students should also write an explanation of their collage that reflect patterns of cultural diffusion and how technology has played a role. www.hawaii.edu /hga/GAW99/techange.htm   (1281 words)

Lesson 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) Next, I will help the students further understand cultural diffusion and its effects on our own society by putting up the list of words and probing students to answer questions about these words and their relation to the concept of cultural diffusion. Students will be assessed of their comprehension of cultural diffusion through discussion in class using the word origin exercise. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the topics covered in this lesson, especially cultural diffusion and how civilizations changed, during the unit exam with use of their notes from class. www.tcnj.edu /~nigro2/lesson_8.htm   (406 words)

Standard Cross-Cultural Sample: on-line edition The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample contains the best-described society in each of 186 cultural provinces of the world, chosen so that cultural independence of each unit in terms of historical origin and cultural diffusion could be considered maximal with respect to the others societies in the sample. The center was organized to offer to scholars a representative sample of the world's known and well described cultures, each "pinpointed" to the smallest identifiable subgroup of the society in question at a specific point in time, and to provide the first set of coded data for the sample. Although the SCCS maximizes the relative independence of sample cases, the 1969 article also provides standard Galton's problem controls for historical nonindependence of cases, and demonstrates with illustrations of their use that Galton’s problem controls are needed to make valid statistical inferences even with a relatively large cross-cultural sample. repositories.cdlib.org /imbs/socdyn/wp/Standard_Cross-Cultural_Sample   (434 words)

Culture and Cultural Landscapes A. Culture: has its roots in anthropology; the language, music, art, mode of dress, etc. of a particular people group, and human-made part of the environment. Stimulus Diffusion: when something is not readily adopted by a receiving population, but later on as the result of some sort of stimulus, is adopted D. Relocation Diffusion: the actual movement of individuals who have already adopted an idea or innovation and carry it to a new, perhaps distant locale, where they proceed to disseminate it. www.csiss.org /learning_resources/content/g5/cultural_landscapes.html   (427 words)

World Civilizations: Cultural Diffusion Project It is an excellent introduction to the concept of the diffusion of cultures. Ask students to define culture (the way of life of a large group of people). If you are fortunate enough to have a classroom with ethnic diversity, ask students to describe customs from their family and how it reflects the culture of their parents' or grandparents' homeland. www.csuohio.edu /history/courses/his380/foley/csc.html   (229 words)

Diffusionism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) They believed that cultural traits diffused outward from a variety of cultural centers in circles to other regions and people. In the British version of Diffusionism, only one culture center existed from which all cultural traits were diffused. The concept of diffusion explains how some cultural traits are acquired or spread. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/anthropology/diffusionism.html   (151 words)

mexika.org | Cultural Diffusion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) As the original inhabitants and caretakers of this continent, we live in a world where our Indigenous ("Native American") cultural heritage is brutally attacked on a daily basis by the dominant society. We reject these labels as they represent a destructive act of demographic genocide, and we proudly declare ourselves to be a sovereign Indigenous people - collectively known as "Anawakah" in the Indigenous language of Nawatl. We embrace our Indigenous cultural inheritance and soundly reject the racist / divisive ideologies of mestizaje and hispanidad. www.mexika.org /About.htm   (224 words)

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