Crossword puzzle 5: Cultural Anthropology

From material in chapters 11-13 of Kottak's Mirror for Humanity

Challenge: Can you solve this crossword puzzle even if you do not have the book?

crossword puzzle grid

ACROSS
6 The offspring of people native to one area who have spread to other lands
8 The tendency to view less-developed countries as more alike than they are
DOWN
1 Too much change
2 The process of change that a minority ethnic group may experience when it adopts the patterns and norms of the dominant culture of its area, becoming incorporated into the dominant culture to the point that the minority ethnic group no longer exists as a separate group
3 The blurring and breakdown of established canons (rules or standards), categories, distinctions, and boundaries; the opening up, reaching out, and breaking down of traditional standards, contrasts, groups, and identities
4 People marked by such things as a collective name, belief in common descent, a sense of solidarity, and even association with a specific territory; they share certain beliefs, values, habits, customs, and norms because of a common background.
5 Devaluing a group because of its assumed behavior, values, capabilities or attributes
7 Fixed ideas -- often unfavorable -- about what the members of a particular group are like

    -- Howard Culbertson,

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