Sentences with phrase «agrarian culture»

In an agrarian culture that meant serving a fertility god.

In more agrarian cultures, for example, women must be skilled in a variety of occupations and may share manual labor and earning power with their spouses.

«This result was a surprise to us,» Donihue said, «and has important management implications as we think about integrating knowledge from agrarian cultures and traditions into modern ranching practice.»

While Australia's Aborigines developed a low - density, managed - burn culture that lasted 50 millennia on soils too poor for agriculture, North America's richer soils were subjected to a series of boom - and - bust agrarian cultures.

As is the case in many agrarian cultures around the world, formal education is greatly underappreciated.

Not exact matches

The final result was the rejection within mainstream culture of biblical literalism with its repudiation of history, geology, and the scientific method, and an acceptance of the contributions of science, of evolution and Freudian psychology, of a «higher criticism» of the Bible, of the move from an agrarian economy to an industrial economy and its need for high technology, and of a rearrangement of political views to accommodate social planning and reform which became known in the churches as the Social Gospel.

But this «channeling» assumes radically different shapes in different cultures, ranging from urban to agrarian settings, ancient to modern families, polygamous to monogamous marriages and so forth.

Communication by writing was never as developed in the Jewish milieu as it was in the more agrarian less nomadic Indo - Himalayan and Chinese civilisations, until at least about the time we find the Wisdom literature, the time that is of the full penetration into the near East of the Romano - Hellenic culture of the West.

Having spent eight years at the helm of Instituto Inhotim in Minas Gerais, Brazil (just north of Rio de Janeiro), from 2004 — 2012, Volz has a deep knowledge of contemporary Brazilian art, experience that he leveraged to bring together a powerfully evocative group of works that often meditated on the environment and indigenous cultures, conveying a longing for simpler, agrarian lifestyles.