acclimatization
1 The progressive adaptation of an organism to any change in its natural environment that subjects it to physiological stress. See also acclimation.2 The overall sum of processes by which an organism ...
acculturation difficulty
Any problem of acculturation that falls short of being an adjustment disorder.
assimilation
[Ge]The absorption of a minority group into a majority population, during which the group takes on the values and norms of the dominant culture.
Cultural Interaction
Mesoamerica's cultural unity is the product of contacts maintained among its constituent societies for more than ten millennia. A review of this length cannot do justice to the complex cultural ...
culture
The way of life of a people, including their attitudes, values, beliefs, arts, sciences, modes of perception, and habits of thought and activity. Cultural features of forms of life are learned but ...
diffusion
[Th]The spread of ideas, items of material culture, or cultural traits from one culture or society to another. Diffusion does not necessarily imply a movement of people, for ideas can move through ...
immigrant
A person who migrates to and settles in a country other than that of birthplace and upbringing. Immigrants often differ culturally and sometimes in health-related behavior from persons born and ...
Melville J. Herskovits
(1895 –1963)One of the leading American figures in African anthropology and later in the study of African-American culture. Herskovits's abiding interests were the patterns and processes of ...
Ralph Linton
(1893–1953)An American cultural anthropologist who undertook fieldwork on the Polynesians. Later, he attempted to develop a systematic cultural science, focusing especially on the relationships ...
Romanization
[Ge]For Francis Haverfield, writing in the early 20th century, Romanization was a historical process involving a material change to native cultures brought about by a strong Roman presence that ...
syncretism
The attempt to combine opposing doctrines and practices, especially in reference to philosophical and religious systems. The term came into prominence in the 17th cent. when it was applied to the ...
transculturation
In the foreword to his sixteenth-century book The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, Bernal Díaz del Castillo promises to describe the encounter of Spaniards and Mesoamericans “plainly ...
