Sentences with phrase «pacific islands culture»

That's not to say the film lacks problems (as I understand, it skirts close to appropriating Pacific islands culture, and the depiction of Maui came under criticism) and there was certainly a problem with some of the merchandising.

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When, in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, European peoples again expanded, colonizing fresh sections in the Americas, occupying all of Africa and the islands of the Pacific, and subjecting to their control much of Asia, Christian missions followed and in some instances anticipated the advancing frontiers of Occidental power, and modified profoundly the revolutionary results of the impact of Western upon non-Western peoples and cultures.

While most cultures have had access to sweeteners like honey since ancient times, sugar as we know it was first made from sugarcane in the Pacific Islands.

That is one intriguing lesson from a recent study of diverse cultures across Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands by University College London anthropologist Tom Currie.

The new name Makemake belongs to the god who created humanity in the South Pacific culture of Easter Island (or «Rapa Nui» in Polynesian), which was proposed by its discovery team, which discovered the object around Easter on March 31, 2005.

The research is showing what Traditional Cultures such as those in the Pacific Islands have known for centuries — coconut oil helps keep you healthy!

Hi, I have lived all over this Blue Globe, I have had the opportunity, from the South Pacific [Maryanna Islands] to Europe, I loved all the different cultures.

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The country, a collection of over 300 islands in the southwest part of the Pacific Ocean, is a place with great beaches but also a significant history, an interesting political life and a vital culture.

But Bali has even more to recommend it beyond its spectacular beauty (as if that was n`t enough): an open and welcoming populace with a unique culture and deeply spiritual nature; the surrounding reefs and nearby islands with their diverse flora and fauna; world class scuba diving; and, perhaps the major draw, stunning sand beaches that vary from the soothing and serene to a surfer's paradise with breaking waves that provide some of the best surf conditions in the Pacific.

Cruises from Seattle and Vancouver take passengers across the Pacific to multiple islands, where tourists can experience the blend of Polynesian, Western, and Native cultures.

A Pacific island with history from World War Two and ancient cultures.

With roots dating back to 1823, the Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums in the United States, with a collection representing nearly every culture, ranging from some of the most important ancient Egyptian works in the nation; to the arts of the Pacific Islands, Asia, Africa, and the Islamic world; to American and European art; to international contemporary works.

Eyes of the Ancestors: The Arts of Island Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art is edited by Reimar Schefold, professor emeritus of the anthropology and sociology of Indonesia at Leiden University, in collaboration with Steven G. Alpert, an author, consultant, and connoisseur of the arts of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, with contributions by Steven G. Alpert; George Ellis, former President and Director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts; Nico de Jonge, Vice-Director of the University Museum of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Vernon Kedit, an authority on the weaving traditions of the Saribas region (Sarawak, Borneo); Reimar Schefold; Achim Sibeth, former curator of the Southeast Asian collection at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt / Main; and Roxana Waterson, a social anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore.

For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting people, in fact destroying an entire culture — and no, not in some low - slung Pacific Island — The New York Times has a poignant piece about how the Kamayurá people in Brazil are struggling today with deforestation and climate change making their way of life less and less tenable: Forest Homelands Now Surrounded by Ranches The Kamayurá people live in the middle of the Xingu National Park — which was once deep in the Amazon but is now surrounded by ranches — and live by hunting, fishing and some agriculture.

The Dorset culture maintained trade routes which extended all the way from the Pacific Coast of Alaska, across Arctic Canada, to Baffin Island, across Northern Greenland and Pearyland, down the eastern coast of Greenland on the Atlantic Ocean.