Sentences with phrase «cultural importance of»

He also cautions that the debate is failing to address other important issues, such as opportunities for generating economic development on traditional lands and the spiritual and cultural importance of land to the traditional owners.

The MOU is specific about the agreement being to «maximise the economic and social benefits» to Ngadjon Jii People and to acknowledge the cultural importance of the area.

We recognise the cultural importance of communal ownership of land, and we are committed to protecting the rights of communal ownership and to ensure that indigenous land is preserved for future generations.

Transforming Indigenous rights and interests into alienable interests in land may ignore the cultural importance of traditional lands by reducing the relationship Indigenous people have with their land to a purely economic value.

School of Visual Art and Design professors Mary Robinson, Sara Schneckloth and David Voros exhibited work in Norway as part of an international initiative to raise awareness about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the cultural importance of seeds in biodiversity.

A+P's mandate is to create an educational platform that supports the acquisition of practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social context.

In 1948, impassioned by the seminal cultural importance of Jarry's play, she and her husband and lifelong collaborator Stefan, published the first ever English translation of

In 1948, impassioned by the seminal cultural importance of Jarry's play, she and her husband and lifelong collaborator Stefan, published the first ever English translation of Ubu Roi on Gaberbocchus Press.

In parallel with his work in the studio, Bradford maintains a social practice, anchored by his Los Angeles - based not - for - profit, Art + Practice, an educational platform that emphasizes practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social context.

to act as an advocate for philosophical thinking as a creative practice, and for the continuing cultural importance of philosophy.

If they did make the trip, they would discover a World Heritage Site that rivals the beauty and cultural importance of more popular tourist attractions: the Mogao Caves, sometimes referred to as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas.

The tall, lanky artist is also the co-founder of Art + Practice, an arts and education foundation that «supports the acquisition of practical skills for foster youth and stresses the cultural importance of art within a larger social context.»

Bradford's personal vision of his Los Angeles community exists within and beyond the canvas: the artist cofounded Art + Practice, a local organization that works with teens and young adults in foster care to stress the cultural importance of art in social context.

This exhibition also includes a new work from the Bruce High Quality Foundation, which exploits the cultural importance of cinema to the mythos of car culture as the brightly hued bumper of a New York City taxi, equipped with a motion sensing device, which interrupts the viewers experience, delivering the soundtrack of the movie Taxi itself as the spectator approaches.

Indeed, the ARNA artist residency is part of the larger project of raising awareness of the ecological and cultural importance of this area and achieving UNESCO recognition.

«TIGA strongly welcomes the growing political consensus in favour of GTR and the recognition by the UK Coalition Government of the economic and cultural importance of the video games industry.

There seems to be a lot of growth potential for European tabletop projects on Kickstarter, especially considering the cultural importance of the region for the tabletop games business.

Given the size and cultural importance of NYC, the number of tourist attractions which can be found within its bounds is hardly surprising.

Aside from the cultural importance of libraries as institutions, they have always held a reputation as being the greatest champions of literacy and freedom of speech.

Have students examine words and pictures in Sona and the Wedding Game and My Dadima Wears a Sarito to collect details about the cultural importance of types of clothing, and then select three to five favorites and create a poster.

Participants will be asked to engage with issues such as declining physical book sales, the place of ebooks, the cultural importance of bookshops and author events, the specialist knowledge of booksellers, and how bookshops can provide customers with a place to buy books, however they decide to read them.

When they first began, the architects were faced with dilapidated buildings «that made no acknowledgement of the surrounding landscape, nor the cultural importance of the 90 per cent Maori school roll, as the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand».

That's not to say it's without merit, as certain passages of the film are quite good, but it's serviceable at best, and at worst, it minimizes the cultural importance of Apple and its founder (in the spirit of full disclosure, I am a mostly happy Apple customer who is currently writing this review on a MacBook Pro).

For more from this year's SXSW, check out the upcoming documentary Barbecue, which highlights the cultural importance of barbecuing around the world.

Former English professor Craven makes a case for the cultural importance of stories by making a decidedly grim fairy tale, a modern twist on an ancient tradition, and winds up with an imaginative take on society's fascination with horror.

* Wikipedia helpfully explains the science and cultural importance of COR: «The ratio of velocities before and after an impact....

Speakers described the cultural importance of preserving structures that reflect continuous and diverse waves of immigration beginning in the second half of the 19th century.

«If nothing else, this issue has shown us the political, economic and cultural importance of the media industries and the need for even more transparent policy - making in this area.»

And just as we recognise the cultural importance of UK music we have to recognise the economic importance too.

Aggressive and forward - thinking, it was good to see Chamberlain embrace the cultural importance of the derby, as he pushed on.

Understanding the religious, culinary and cultural importance of dates in the Middle East, she's been using dates and date syrup, also known as the Date Nectar under the Beloved brand, in her recipes to add that extra flavour.

Insisting on the cultural importance of «stigmatized knowledge,» he looks at the history of this tradition, going back to the Order of Illuminists founded in 1776 by Bavarian law professor Adam Weishaupt to free mankind «from all established religious and political authority.»

Not exact matches

Since work wouldn't hold the same social currency or cultural importance as today, intrinsic motivations and labors of love might become the benchmark of a life well spent.

While it's easy to overstate the importance of one film, the Black Panther release is a watershed moment in America's cultural history.

The Most Powerful Women in Business list is compiled by FORTUNE editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, the arc of the woman's career (resume and runway ahead), and social and cultural influence.

If there's a lesson here, for both employers and employees, it's a simple reminder not to overlook the importance of evaluating the cultural fit.

As in past years, we ranked these women on four major criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global marketplace; her clout inside her company; her career trajectory; and in certain cases her cultural and social impact.

Wahhabism emphasizes the importance of avoiding non-Islamic cultural practices and non-Muslim fraternity on the grounds that the sunna and the central importance of Muhammad as exemplar forbid imitating non-Muslims.

He says «watch more TV,» as a way to highlight his case that the long - form series, such as with GIRLS, MAD MEN, BIG LOVE, and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, has risen to level where its quality and contemporary cultural importance has eclipsed that of cinema.

The importance of Hamann's thought, as David Bentley Hart has noted, «would be difficult to exaggerate not only [because of] the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but [also for] his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.»

There seems to be an assumption that because we are wise and atheistic, anyone in the past whom we admire can not have been too much affected by religion — that their faith is just a cultural appurtenance of as little importance to understanding their thought as their hairstyle.

You will hear me say this several times this week: The most important question we have to ask when reading the New Testament household codes is this — is their purpose to reinforce the importance of preserving the hierarchy of the typical Greco - Roman household or is their purpose to reinforce the importance of imitating Christ in interpersonal relationships, regardless of cultural familial structures?

At about the same time the Muslims of India, led by such men as Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, who founded Alighar University, became conscious of their cultural importance and their national existence.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

The ministry, or in concrete terms the clergy, has often too easily the impression, not merely that the Church has to proclaim what are certainly correct principles of social, cultural and political life, but that by that very fact it possesses, for everything of the slightest importance?

Edelman also touched on the importance of parental responsibility, national spiritual revival and cultural renewal.

The «communal tensions» between the groups were «of major importance in the life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social, political, and cultural recognition in America.

The cynicism that pervades contemporary cultural life must be replaced by a deep confidence in the human purposes and importance of art.

Many of us have been giving considerable attention in recent decades to the importance of cultural context: you can't preach exactly the same sermon in a suburban Omaha church as you would to a congregation in rural Thailand.

the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.