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assimilation - ANSWER the process of change that a minority group may experience when it moves to a country where another culture dominates big-c communism - ANSWER political movement and doctrine seeking to overthrow ...

assimilation - ANSWER the process of change that a minority group may experience when it moves to a country where another culture dominates big-c communism - ANSWER political movement and doctrine seeking to overthrow capitalism and to establish a form of communism such as that which prevailed in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 culture - ANSWER distinctly human; transmitted through learning; traditions and customs that govern behavior and beliefs ethnic group - ANSWER group distinguished by cultural similarities (shared among members of that group) and differences (between that group and others) ethnocide - ANSWER destruction of cultures of certain ethnic groups family of orientation - ANSWER nuclear family in which one is born and grows up family of procreation - ANSWER nuclear family established when one marries and has children fundamentalism - ANSWER describes antimodernist movements in various religions globalization - ANSWER accelerating interdependence of nations in a world system linked economically and through mass media and modern transportation systems key cultural consultant - ANSWER person who is an expert on a particular aspect of local life monotheism - ANSWER worship of an external, omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent supreme being prestige - ANSWER esteem, respect, or approval for acts, deeds, or qualities considered exemplary ritual - ANSWER behavior that is formal, stylized, repetitive, and stereotyped, performed earnestly as a social act stereotypes - ANSWER fixed ideas about what members of a group are like symbol - ANSWER something, verbal or nonverbal, that arbitrarily and by convention stands for something else, with which it has no necessary or natural connection syncretism - ANSWER cultural mixes, including religious blends, that emerge from acculturation - the exchange of cultural features when cultures come into continuous firsthand contact acculturation - ANSWER exchange of cultural features that results when groups come into continuous firsthand contact affinal relative - ANSWER relatives my marriage, whether of lineals or collaterals ambilineal - ANSWER principle of descent that does not automatically exclude the children of either sons or daughters ambilocality - ANSWER residence of a married couple with or near the kin of either husband or wife, as they choose animism - ANSWER belief in souls or doubles apical ancestor - ANSWER person that stands at the top of the common genealogy autochthony - ANSWER self and soil bifurcate merging system of kinship classification - ANSWER kinship terminology which M and MZ are called by the same term, F and FB are called by the same term, and MB and FZ are called by different terms brideservice - ANSWER labor given by the groom to the parents of the bride bridewealth - ANSWER gift from the husband and his kin to the wife and her kin before, at or after marriage british colonialism - ANSWER first stage started in the 16th century and ended with the American revolution; second stage started in 1788; after WWII the British empire began to fall apart capital - ANSWER wealth or resources invested in business, with the intent of producing a profit cargo cults - ANSWER postcolonial, acculturative religious movements, common in Melanesia, that attempt to explain European domination and wealth and to achieve similar success magically by mimicking European behavior clan - ANSWER unilineal descent group based on stipulated descent collateral relative - ANSWER genealogical relative who is not in ego's direct line, such as B, Z, FB, or MZ