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| The process by which human infants learn their culture. It is how culture is transmitted from one generation to the next. |
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| A distinctive seat of ideas, values, and behavior patterns by which a group within a larger society operates, while still sharing common standards with that larger society |
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| The idea that cultural traits are best understood when veiw within the cultural context of which they are part |
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| A society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but maintain their cultural differences. |
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| Process by which organisms achieve a beneficial adjustment to their environments. |
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| The mutual effect of the interaction of two or more parts of a larger system. |
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| A perspective in ethnogoraphy that uses the concepts and categories that are relevant and meaningful to the culture under analysis. |
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| A perspective in ethnography that uses the concepts and categories of the anthropologist's culture to describe another culture. |
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