Exam 15: Processes of Change

Diffusion can occur without acculturation.

For long-term survival,human cultures have had to adapt to different environment.

In acculturation,subordinate groups will often incorporate new cultural elements into their own culture,creating a blend of old and new;a reinterpretation of new cultural elements to fit them with already existing traditions is called _______________.

Acculturation differs from other types of processes of change because it always involves an element of _______________.

Conservative ______________________ of North America are a good example of a faith-based community that resists change.

During World War II,cultural anthropologists worked for the government to describe the cultures of Germany and Japan in an effort to provide knowledge that might help the United States win the war.This is an example of _______________.

All of the following are associated with modernization except ______________.

You are a Central Asian nomad.You and your family are migrating westwards,and have just wiped out a farming village.You are wondering how you can carry some of the booty from the raid,since the horses already have too much to carry.You watch your daughter playing with a small toy that has two little wheels made from dried,twisted grass.Suddenly you jump up and shout the Central Asian equivalent of "Eureka!" and within several days have rigged up a crude two-wheeled cart that can be pulled by a horse.You have just produced a(n)_______________.

As modernization occurs,which of the following changes are likely to follow?

In modern-day Guatemala,Maya Indians will adopt Western ways even if the value of what they adopt is not self-evident and even if it conflicts with traditional ways and values.

Not all revolts are truly revolutionary in their consequences.

_______________ always involves an element of force,either directly,as in conquests,or indirectly,as in the implicit or explicit threat that force will be used if people refuse to make the changes those in the other group expect them to make.

The _______________ deliberately avoided modernization,until they felt they had no other option if they were to fend off the same outside forces that elsewhere in Amazon basin have destroyed whole societies.