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Habit
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A repetitive act that a particular individual performs
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Custom
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A repetitive act of a group, performed to the extent that it becomes characteristic of the group
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Folk culture
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A set of customs traditionally practiced primarliy by small, homogenous groups living in isolated rural areas
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Popular culture
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A set of customs found in large, heterogenous societies that share certain habits despite differences in other personal characteristics
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Terroir
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The contribution of a location's distinctive physical features to the way food tastes
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Taboo
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A restriction on behavior imposed by social custom
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Acculturation
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The exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first-hand contact
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Assimilation
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a process by which members of an ethnic minority group lose cultural characteristics that distinguish them from the dominant cultural group or take on the cultural characteristics of another group.
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Artifact
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A handmade object, as a tool, or the remains of one, characteristic of an earlier time or cultural stage, esp. such an object found at an archaeological excavation;
any mass-produced, usually inexpensive object reflecting contemporary society or popular culture
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Built environment
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Human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity
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Core-domain-sphere model
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The place where concentration of culture traits that characterizes a region is greatest.
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Cultural convergence
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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.
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Cultural/enivronmental perception
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The concept that people of different culture will definitely observe and interpret their environment and make different decision about its nature, potentiality and use.
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Cultural ecology
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The branch of ecology that involves the study of the interaction of human societies with one another and with the natural environment.
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Cultural landscape
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Modification to an environment by humans (including built environments and agricultural systems that reflects aspects of culture.)
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