Sentences with phrase «cultural inheritance»

Moreover, people in my social class define themselves by educational and career achievements, not cultural inheritance.

Comparing the biological and cultural inheritance of personality and social attitudes in the Virginia 30,000 study of twins and their relatives

Historical research heavily influences the materiality and narrative behind her work, as well as thoughts on cultural inheritance.

«It is essential to understand the dynamics of cultural inheritance at different temporal and spatial scales, to uncover the underlying mechanisms that drive these dynamics, and to shed light on their implications for our current theory of evolution as well as for our interpretation and predictions regarding human behavior.»

That is why I will be working closely with the new Education Secretary Justine Greening to make sure that no child is left out of this country's magnificent and extraordinary cultural inheritance.

Here, ideas of home, hospitality and generosity mingle with thoughts about cultural inheritance in a broader sense.

The institution that is housed within a modernist architecture and embedded within interpersonal networks and a local cultural inheritance that intersects contextually and geographically with Akarova's own.

The Icelandic artist's work gives performance art, and contemporary art in general, a good rep.. His actions, musical scores, films and paintings are reminiscent of the repetitious, contemplative tone of Bill Viola's video work as well as Anselm Kiefer's multimedia, existential reflections on the creative «self» and on cultural inheritance.

As an authentic person, you must intentionally and critically examine each of your cultural inheritances, choose what you like and discard that which you don't — and you must not raise obstacles to others doing the same.

The nation is defined by a territory, of course, but even more so by a cultural inheritance: a language, literature, and mode of social life.

But we should add to this list the other side's demi - gods, who serve to demonstrate that what has happened to the humanities has done more than betray the cultural inheritance of great art and literature.

Lent is a cultural inheritance that reminds Christians they are part of a great «race» composed of many tribes and tongues.

What we learn from cultural relativity is firstly this: our cultural convictions and practices are always relative, relative to the time in which we live, the position we choose to take, and the cultural inheritance which has shaped us.

Our cultural inheritance is a point of contestation, not a shared, common home.

Not only do ordinary people have less and less of a place in the global economy; they're told that their cultural inheritance is benighted.

By long and patient processes of aspiring, thinking, trying, daring, and sacrificing, mankind has accumulated a cultural inheritance.

The new ethic reinforces rational option over tradition and cultural inheritance.

The Ocean Model of Civilisationrelies upon a more judicious account of historical and cultural inheritance: human civilization is like an ocean into which many rivers flow and add depth, which in turn are sourced by tributaries.

To the contrary, my cultural inheritance was learning to «treat yourself» at «special occasions» by gorging on every horribly delicious food you could imagine.

Angolan multimedia artist Nástio Mosquito has gain international acclaim for his provocative use of music, video, installation and performance as tools to explore themes of cultural inheritance, tradition and identity.

It contrasts Georg Baselitz's resistance to narrative, Guston's comic disdain, and Julian Schnabel's face - off between a cultural inheritance and an imagination at risk.

He concludes, noting that Nowinski «confronts not only the 20th century, but the 19th and all the centuries before; she embraces both her human and her cultural inheritance.

This exhibition, encompassing 50 years of work, is a testament to that drama and a stunning example of Abstract Expressionism's cultural inheritance.