"Cultural continuity" refers to the preservation and continuation of cultural traditions, customs, and practices over time. It emphasizes the passing down of knowledge, values, and identity from one generation to another, ensuring that a group's unique cultural heritage remains alive and intact.
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It is not, as in the past, that society is gradually modifying or abandoning some long - standing positions while retaining a basic
cultural continuity with much of what has gone before.
An innovative public forum, to be convened by the Healing Foundation in Canberra on Friday, will put the spotlight on the importance of
cultural continuity in preventing suicide among Indigenous communities.
The revolution of mores, tastes, and behavior is a constant, but this transformation unfolds against timeless human rituals — talking, dancing, sunbathing, playing — which
emphasizes cultural continuity rather than disjunction, and produces images that are simultaneously intimate and transcendental, quotidian and universal.
Ouhaddou strikes a balance between traditional Moroccan art forms and the conventions of contemporary art, aiming to place artistic creation's in
forgotten cultural continuities into new perspectives.
Sara Ouhaddou strikes a precarious balance between traditional Moroccan art forms and the conventions of contemporary art, aiming to place artistic creation's forgotten
cultural continuities into perspective and lend them visibility.
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Crucially, however, there is a
certain cultural continuity with those ancient times that allows us to draw inferences and make leaps in the dark: we know we are dealing with the legacy of other humans.
Older works in the collection are juxtaposed with new works by contemporary African artists to
highlight cultural continuities, international influences, and variety of themes.
And another Croakey article from Summer May Finlay, previewing the inaugural Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference, highlighted the need for a focus on protective factors; namely interventions which
promote cultural continuity, identity and language.
His mixed - media paintings and assemblage textile works explore various aspects
of cultural continuity and the confluence of the historical and contemporary.
He argued that we can not have it both ways: our communication will tend to support either cultural permanence through time or
cultural continuity across geographic space.
The last factor I would mention is monasticism, which throughout the great upheavals of history continued to be the indispensable bearer not only of
cultural continuity but above all of fundamental religious and moral values, of the ultimate guidance of humankind.
But this simple technique is handed down to us through
the cultural continuity of community and agriculture.
«When compared to what their ancestors did, the great thing about the Puebloans is that they have a high degree of
cultural continuity.»
«We now know,» says Saturno, «that mythology that was important in the16th century was equally important in the first century,» which establishes a degree of
cultural continuity.
His mixed media paintings and assemblage textile works explore various aspects of
cultural continuity and the confluence of the historical and contemporary.
This juxtaposition suggests
a cultural continuity in different registers of this belief in miraculous powers.
His mixed media paintings an assemblage textile works explore various aspects of
cultural continuity and the confluence of the historical and contemporary.
Choosing between willful exposure to unnecessary peril for the sake of
cultural continuity, on the one hand, and heading for high ground because it makes sense, on the other, might not be as easy as it seems, even in this modern age.
Cultural continuity can be understood in broad terms as self - determination and cultural maintenance.
In this comprehensive article below, they outline the cost of mental health issues to the social fabric of Indigenous communities and point to international research showing that indigenous communities with «
cultural continuity» are seeing significantly lower rates of suicide among young people as those under cultural stress.
We are particularly excited by international research that associates Indigenous communities with «
cultural continuity» having significantly lower rates of suicide among their young people than communities under cultural stress.
[49] For example a 2006 study in Canada found that the greater
the cultural continuity in an Indigenous community the lower the rate of youth suicide.
Summer May Finlay, a Yorta Yorta woman and public health researcher, wrote about the forum and shared some Canadian research showing the protective effects of
cultural continuity.
In the article below, she reports that landmark Canadian research, showing the protective effects of
cultural continuity, offers signposts for a way forward.
Professor Chandler's research has highlighted the value of taking strengths - based approaches to suicide prevention in communities, including the importance of
cultural continuity.
At the centre of communities that were doing well were a range of mechanisms through which
cultural continuity had been maintained.