Global warming, plus changing sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects.
cultural imperialism
The rapid spread or advance of one culture at the expense of others, or its imposition on other cultures, which it modifies, replaces, or destroys—usually because of differential economic or political influence.
diaspora
The offspring of an area who have spread to many lands.
ecological anthropology
Study of cultural adaptations to environments.
essentialism
The process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.
ethnoecology
A culture's set of environmental practices and perceptions.
greenhouse effect
Warming from trapped atmospheric gases.
indigenized
Modified to fit the local culture.
postmodern
In its most general sense, describes the blurring and breakdown of established canons (rules, standards), categories, distinctions, and boundaries.
postmodernism
A style and movement in architecture that succeeded modernism. Compared with modernism, postmodernism is less geometric, less functional, less austere, more playful, and more willing to include elements from diverse times and cultures; post-modern now describes comparable developments in music, literature, and visual art.
postmodernity
Condition of a world in flux, with people on-the-move, in which established groups, boundaries, identities, contrasts, and standards are reaching out and breaking down.
Westernization
The acculturative influence of Western expansion on other cultures.
