Sentences with phrase «cultural interpretation»

The old testament might tell otherwise, as cultural interpretation.
«There are all sorts of cultural interpretations of even the simplest phrases,» he said, «That's why conversation is so difficult,» especially for two people with different native languages and cultures.
Parental Engagement Before joining the Food for Life Partnership, Rhyl Primary found it hard to engage many parents with the work of the school — in part due to different cultural interpretations of what going to school should be like.
Second, he denies the normativeness of the existing situation or, as I take it, the various autonomous and distorted cultural interpretations of the situation.
This has provoked the question of the degree to which local cultural interpretations can be accepted.
For Freedom from Torture interpreters, cultural interpretation complements linguistic interpretation.
Guides are qualified and experienced in ecology, wildlife management and natural and cultural interpretation on Kangaroo Island.
As part of a new generation of artists associated with «New Materialism,» which proposes that objects and materials assert their own power over the viewer independent of subjective cultural interpretations, German and Mongolian - Chinese multimedia artist Timur Si - Qin is fascinated by the immediate visual and emotional power of brand logos and advertising in and of themselves.
«Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)» was a new video / sound installation in which Xu Tan explored the differences in American and Chinese cultural interpretations of what is «real» and what is «fake».
, to his ongoing series «On Translation» that wrestles with cultural interpretation, Muntadas has created a vast body of work that comments on the visible and invisible systems of power in a society dominated by the spectacles of mass media, hyperconsumption and constantly evolving technologies.
Stewart's work infiltrates the university, an institution that instructs cultural interpretation, and offers a different kind of knowledge of the land and the teachings of Douglas Lake to SFU and Vancouver.
Twenty artists and film - makers address the question of the veil in all its complexities and ambiguities, challenging any single or fixed cultural interpretation.
A casual Hebrew reader knows that in the beginning is actually «in beginnings» (a plural word) but then again it is usually a different cultural interpretation that screws up the meaning.
Theology is the queen of the sciences, and that includes the social sciences and cultural interpretation.
We have created a public rhetoric about democracy anchored in technological mathematics, not in human understanding or cultural interpretation — not even in civil discourse.
Approaching the experience of these environments as metaphor, I seek inconsistencies within our understanding as a critical tool to reveal points of confrontation between innate desire, cultural interpretation and reality.
In my interpretation of this paragraph the Commissioner is saying that using a cultural interpretation of the word guilty, Aboriginal society associates «guilty» and «responsibility» as being one and the same when in fact they are not within the law.
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