Sentences with phrase «central cultural element»

It has long been a central cultural element in the region of its initial domestication, but has since worked its way into the sinews of many other cultures.

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The city's reputation as an affordable cultural capital of the New South was drawing newcomers from the U.S. coasts, while immigration from Central America, Africa, and the Middle East was adding a new, international element.

This is an example of what James Clifford describes as part of the «modern art - culture system» [3] in which, «the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making «art,» which was once embedded in the culture as a whole, into a separate entity.»

The former use of Uang Kepeng as a medium of exchange in Bali has played a central role in the vitality of Balinese culture, religion, society, governance and economy, and therefore should be re-issued as a complementary medium of exchange to meet present concerns about cultural degradation and demands for an increased supply of Uang Kepeng that is valuable to the people and supports the elements of Balinese culture.

It is an animal themed game which also incorporate cultural elements of the Kongo culture in Central Africa.

While cultural and political realities are central elements of the work on view, the artists in Look up here, I'm in heaven create imagery that aims to transcend the here and now to establish a more transcendent sense of self.

The establishment and operation of residential schools were a central element of this policy, which can best be described as «cultural genocide.»

The right to housing is an element within the right to an adequate standard of living and is recognised as central to the realisation of all economic, social and cultural rights.32 The right to adequate housing is also recognized in other international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.