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What is borrowing?

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Borrowing refers to the adoption of something new from another group.

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What is innovation?

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Innovation is the invention of qualitatively new cultural forms. It involves the recombination of what people already know into something different.

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What is diffusion?

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Diffusion is another word for borrowing often used by anthropologists who trace how an innovation is borrowed from one group to another.

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Define social acceptance.

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Social acceptance is a process that inventions must pass through to become known and accepted by a group of people.

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Define cultural contact.

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Cultural contact refers to the meeting of two culturally distinct groups.

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Define acculturation.

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Acculturation is the process of change that occurs due to cultural contact.

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Define applied anthropology.

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Applied anthropology includes any use of anthropological knowledge to influence social interaction, to maintain or change social institutions, or to direct the course of cultural change.

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Define adjustment anthropology.

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Adjustment anthropology uses anthropological knowledge to make interaction more predictable between people who use different cultural codes.

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Define administrative anthropology.

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Administrative anthropology uses anthropological knowledge for planned change by those who are external to the local cultural group.

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Define action anthropology.

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Action anthropology uses anthropological knowledge for planned change by the local group.

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Define advocate anthropology.

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Advocate anthropology is the use of anthropological knowledge by the anthropologist to increase the power of self-determination of the local group.