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yoroshambo

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on: Jul 10, 2018
Compare and contrast acculturation and assimilation.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What did anthropologist Eric Wolf mean by the concept people without history?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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AmberC1996

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Reply #1 on: Jul 10, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Acculturation is when a group adopts some of the cultural behaviors of another group (usually a dominant group), while assimilation is when one culture is entirely absorbed (and erased) into another.

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This was coined to explain the colonization process in which indigenous peoples own cultural distinctions were erased, suppressed, or simply un-acknowledged by their European colonizers.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 10, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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