If you are teaching students about cultural diffusion within the Cultural Patterns & Processes unit, your students will enjoy this! Students will read about the three different types of expansion […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Cultural Diffusion-Slowing it Down
In this episode: Find out how time and space can slow CULTURAL DIFFUSION, how SOCIAL DISTANCE acts as a CULTURAL BARRIER, and what a giant meat wall has to do […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Time-Space Compression
In this edition, we speed up technology with TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION, see how fast humans are “improving,” and yet how far we’ve come in terms of smoke signals. Click to Read!
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Illustrated Textbook: Cultural Diffusion-Speeding It Up
In this episode: With his Snapchat in hand, Dex gets a lesson in the speed of transmission of expansion and relocation diffusion. Click to read!
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Illustrated Textbook: Relocation Diffusion-The Jumping Kind
In this edition: find out what Sikh Dastaars and La Catedral de San Juan Bautista have in common, and why every American needs to know a little Puerto Rican history. […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Expansion Diffusion-the Stimulus Kind
In this Episode: See how culture is adapted to meet the needs of new groups, why McDonald’s menus are different around the world, and why it might be hard to […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Expansion Diffusion-The Hierarchic Kind
See how culture can bypass certain people, why private yoga lessons aren’t for everyone, and put the debate over hierarchic or hierarchical to rest. Enjoy this edition of EXPANSION DIFFUSION: […]
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Illustrated Textbook: Expansion Diffusion-The Contagious Type
See how CONTAGIOUS CULTURAL DIFFUSION expands from a hearth, how toothpaste hair became all the rage, and why explaining cultural diffusion in terms of virology requires caution. Click to read. […]
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Illustrated Text: Cultural Diffusion-An Introduction
Find out what happens when humans are stripped naked of technology, cultures collide, and when aliens have their input. This page covers CULTURAL DIFFUSION, CULTURAL CONVERGENCE (TRANSCULTURATION), SPONTANEOUS (INDEPENDENT INVENTION), […]
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Illustrated Textbook: The Cultural Hearths
In this installment, we address the world’s CULTURAL HEARTHS and their greatest achievements, why exceptional North America wasn’t one of them, and the role of merchant traders in the formation […]
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VIDEO via FreeBase: Charting Culture by Mapping Migration
Video: Thousands of Years of Human Migration in Five Minutes By Lisa Raffensperger | July 31, 2014 2:00 pm It’s enough to put an old-fashioned family tree to shame. A visualization […]
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LESSON PLAN: Types of Cultural Diffusion
Human Imprint Notes: I have my students complete this assignment to apply their understanding of the different types of diffusion to real world scenarios that they choose. By the end […]
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NEWS via Times-Picayune: Shotgun geography: the history behind the famous New Orleans elongated house
Shotgun geography: the history behind the famous New Orleans elongated house Few elements of the New Orleans cityscape speak to the intersection of architecture, sociology and geography so well as […]
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