APHG Chapter 6 and 7 Vocabulary

The belief that objects have a discrete spirit and conscious life

• Animism

• Cajun

• Cluster Migration

• Diaspora

System in India that gives every Indian a particular place in the social hierarchy from birth.

• Animism

• Cajun

• Caste System

• Diaspora

member of any of the largely self-contained communities in the bayou areas of southern Louisiana formed by descendants of French Canadians, speaking an archaic form of French.

• Animism

• Cajun

• Cluster Migration

• Diaspora

a pattern of movement and settlement resulting from the collective action of distinctive social or ethnic group.

• Animism

• Cajun

• Cluster Migration

• Diaspora

the dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.

• Animism

• Cajun

• Cluster Migration

• Diaspora

an area predominantly populated by a single ethnicity,

• Ethnic Islands

• Ethnic Neighborhoods

• Ethnic Religions

• Ethnicity

An area within a city containing members of the same ethnic background.

• Ethnic Islands

• Ethnic Neighborhoods

• Ethnic Religions

• Ethnicity

A religion with a relatively concentrated spatial distribution whose principles are likely to be based on the physical characteristics of the particular location in which it adherents are concentrated

• Ethnic Islands

• Ethnic Neighborhoods

• Ethnic Religions

• Ethnicity

Identity with a group of people who share the cultural traditions of a particular homeland or hearth

• Ethnic Islands

• Ethnic Neighborhoods

• Ethnic Religions

• Ethnicity

1. evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.

• Ethnocentrism

• Gender spaces

• Ghetto

• Great Schism