Sentences with phrase «as cultural markers»

On one level, he distinguishes Christianity's role as a cultural marker from its role as a causative factor in several contemporary and historical conflicts.

He is on point in calling the multicultural education industry to task for its neglect of religion as a cultural marker.

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Since the beginning of time, cultural and societal traditions have been used as markers of identity.

This study is one of the first in its kind and we hope will point to the importance of coprolites as important cultural markers and thus any archaeological dig should include the search and preservation of any coprolites found at the sites.

The resulting film feels pure and authentic, not like some artificial cultural hybrid, so I'm prone to regard it as a marker of a current historical change in the urban life of mainland China.

Clearly middle - class constructions of street hookers rule out such cultural markers — though apparently not those of ideologically correct specimens such as Woody Allen's undereducated prostitutes and convicts, who are apt to use terms like «dem» and «dose.»

In a country where cultural competency and high academic performance are markers of success, and schools are the mediums through which American children are socialized into their role as citizen, unequal education through racial segregation maintains a racial and social hierarchy.

The exhibition title references many facets of arts and culture traditions from ancient history to the modern day, arising out of Smith's meditations on the number's spiritual significance as a marker of immortality, as well a number of noteworthy cultural and historical facts and figures featuring the number itself.

The images are all precisely dated, and track in and out of the political and social changes of the time, referencing the war in Afghanistan, the rise and fall of New Labour, Section 28, ASBOS, as well as more oblique, personal, cultural and seasonal markers.

The American artists that he admired whose use of material as markers of cultural history were no less significant.

The works that make up these series pair seemingly banal subjects like floor tiles, cars, and weathered paint, with items of cultural significance, such as grave markers.

Surrounding the figures like medieval putti are smaller representations of Wonder Woman and other such cultural markers as Josephine Baker, Narcissus, and the Scarlet Witch.