"Cultural artifacts" refer to objects or items that are created, used, or valued by a particular group of people. These artifacts can include things like artwork, tools, clothing, or even traditions and languages. They carry historical, social, and symbolic significance, reflecting the beliefs, values, and customs of a culture.
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Most of all, there is little interest in dealing with such
cultural artifacts in the complexity of their cultural and historical settings.
Most significantly, it's in how their products feel — not just as consumer goods, but
as cultural artifacts.
Created as a resource to share and
preserve cultural artifacts that are traditionally not archived by public libraries and museums, the organization often draws on private collections for material.
For centuries, artists have collected artworks, along with
diverse cultural artifacts and natural materials, as vital sources of inspiration and to create highly individualized models of their world.
The «owners»
of cultural artifacts are not the people who happen to live in the same geographical area 2000 after the culture that created them.
Despite our innocent intentions,
including cultural artifacts can actually prevent some students form accessing yoga which is opposite of our intentions.
Its anti-style actually works greatly in its favor — it manages to accurately reflect the banalities of childhood, the fluid nature of memory, the flashes of recognition we have of
cultural artifacts from a previous time, and our struggles to redefine our relationships with our parents and friends as we change and grow right along with them.
In his diatribe, Cokely invoked a radical canard that has been showcased for national audiences in celebrated
cultural artifacts like Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing.
«My siblings and I grew up surrounded
by cultural artifacts collected by my mother to educate us about our black heritage,» Gaignard states.
Consumer goods, advertising, and
pop cultural artifacts such as book lights, ergonomic keyboards, prescription drug commercials, ASMR YouTube videos, and Enya songs become curious tools for attempting to solve her problems.
, or culture house, the institute houses a collection of historic and present -
day cultural artifacts from Sumba's diverse tribal communities and can organize excursions to megalithic villages and scenic sites around the island.
Susan Hiller is perhaps best known for her installations, multi-screen videos and audio works which are based on
specific cultural artifacts from our society.
Roth returned to painting in 2006 after an almost ten - year hiatus during which his practice consisted of collecting and archiving
cultural artifacts such as commercial paint color charts, blank legal forms, targets and women's compact mirrors.
E.T. might be the best - known Atari misfire of 1982, but Custer's Revenge is a much more deeply
embarrassing cultural artifact from the same timeframe.
The implications — animalism the least of them — to that sort of bullshit is the sort of thing that nudges Spartan from just another bad Mamet movie into an altogether rarer clime, one shared by other obsolete
cultural artifacts interesting mainly for their ability to place the worst of the society that spawned them in context.
Mounted across the midsection of two adjacent gallery walls, the work is a notable
cultural artifact for this city, loaded with more resonance than one might expect from the minimalist, austere form.
In 2006, the museum acquired Dion's Providence Cabinet (2001)-- a curiosity cabinet of
cultural artifacts collected from one of three New England Digs — for the collection.
Opening on September 10, «Transitions» analyzes how the recontextualization of
cultural artifacts changes value and understanding.
The exhibition marks 130 years of cultural relations between Korea and the UK and «celebrates the vital (and largely unsung) harpstrings of inspiration that connect
historic cultural artifacts to contemporary artistic practice.»
I have tracked and compiled a list of their common characteristics — from the desire to create
good cultural artifacts to a strong sense of calling — and these leaders» optimistic outlook on the future has steamrolled me.
Where he erred was in failing to
distinguish cultural artifacts (like slavery) from natural necessities, but certainly not in underestimating the importance of «politicians.»
The tide had turned from a Lewisian seeing of celestial beauty in the jungle of filth and imbecility that is Myth to a marketable spotting of Christian symbolism in every pop
cultural artifact imaginable.
Matthew Collins, a bioarchaeologist at the University of York in the United Kingdom, has been an early pioneer in the study of ancient proteins, and decided to turn the new method on some of the unidentified bones associated with the Grotte du
Renne cultural artifacts.
Among the many notable albums of 1984 are the soundtracks for This Is Spinal Tap, Stop Making Sense, Purple Rain and Footloose — very different music, very different movies, but all influential and
enduring cultural artifacts.
In between, bodies run, leap and fall amid nuzzling lips, blasting bullets and periodic story turns that make the movie a
modest cultural artifact if one largely devoid of aesthetic interest.
Available exclusively in the Wii U version of the Never Alone game, collect more than 20 in -
game Cultural Artifacts that feature beautiful high - resolution images and compelling background information drawn from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution.
Such is the decline of courage in western popular culture that even
sickening cultural artifacts like Lang's Cheaper by the Dozen out - balls an updated version fifty - three years hence.
In 2014, help George Clooney's film The Monuments Men sought to bring attention to the brave Allied soldiers who were sent to prevent the destruction of
cultural artifacts during the waning days of World War II.
The best Bond films were wise enough not to take themselves too seriously, generally aware that they were selling a fantasy package of moral escapism, aspirational heterosexuality and killer theme tunes, the majority of which have endured as
richer cultural artifacts than the movies themselves.
The mid -»90s hit «Crash Into Me» is featured prominently in not one, but two Lady Bird scenes, and may be the most fervently
discussed cultural artifact in the movie thus far.
Documentation, in particular, supports democratic practice by generating a research orientation, inviting in multiple voices, facilitating listening, and
producing cultural artifacts.
These short video previews of books, often featuring a chat with the author or a dramatic depiction of the plot, and typically posted on YouTube, are truly
strange cultural artifacts: They're painfully obvious attempts to adapt to technological change, but they're just as obviously off - key, not quite in step with whatever they're chasing.