Sentences with phrase «cultural ritual as»

Her tragicomic situations suggest the futility of personal and cultural ritual as they bring to the foreground issues of feminine identity and fearRead more

Her tragicomic situations suggest the futility of personal and cultural ritual as they bring to the foreground issues of feminine identity and fear of success.

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The diversity of religious rituals and beliefs has been taken as support for historical and cultural relativism.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

World Health Organization gives a recomended age until 2 not 5 as another commenter posted, Most Old - time Cultural Rights of passages including Judaism, and tribal ritual from the old world and new, hold ceremonies for the age of 3, because the baby is entering childhood and no longer need the breast.

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Plenary Session: «The Technocratic Body: American Childbirth as Cultural Expression»; Breakouts: «American Paradigms of Birth and Health Care»; «The Power of Ritual»; «Malaise and Meaning in Postmodern Midwifery and Childbirth Education»

Topics: «Birth as an American Cultural Experience» «Cultural Roots of Violence Against Women»; «' Power of Ritual»

And religion and elaborate group cultural rituals, like singing or dancing together, act as social glue among people in large groups.

Anthropologists and ethnologists have uncovered much cultural evidence, from oral histories and illustrations, that ancient African artists often used ritual animal blood in their creations, generally as attempts to please or appease their deities.

I personally feel that a comparison can be made to that of a «ritual elder» as cultural expert Robert Moore describes in his book, «The Archetype of Initiation».

Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody has described herself as a «naked Margaret Mead,» a cultural anthropologist who for years studied the rites and rituals of the stripper tribe in lieu of the nine - to - five grind.

While I have no experience with Catholic school myself, it's clear from the little moments and details that color Lady Bird's daily life that Gerwig has filled the film to the brim with the sorts of cultural touchstones that are universal to those with that shared experience, evidenced by the little audience chuckles as she endures the various rituals that come from attending a school like that.

Critical consciousness is more of an outcome of certain social practices, cultural formations, habits of mind and the institutional arrangements that help shape them, as well as the rituals and routines that give them legitimacy, than a precondition for them — but there is no question that they are dialectically related.

Where the Batad Rice Terraces is not just another UNESCO World Heritage Site with its amphitheater like steps but as a very important part of the Ifugao cultural fabric and identity governed by the seasons and belief systems through rituals and gods / guardians like the bul - ol.

Ubud has become known as the cultural heart of Bali and offers many incredible cultural performances and rituals as well as a potent cultural atmosphere.

Sauna is a cultural touchstone, a focal point for life, serving as a base for births and coming - of - age rituals - and is traditionally fully nude.

At the Amora Ubud Villas you are encouraged to visit the local villages and are invited to see the traditional farming and carving as well as rituals in the temples, you are also able to try carving and even the farming of rice if you are interested in this and will be made very welcome regardless of your personal interest in this area of both natural and cultural beauty.

Artists such as Joachim Koester, Matt Mullican and Jess Johnson absorb both shared cultural and personal memories through the aesthetic of ritual to interrogate notions of the world beyond.

They can be read as three - dimensional snapshots of a cultural moment or records of the daily rituals and aspirations of a particular individual.

Golden Kingdoms features works from recent excavations in Peru, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico and explores artistic practices as well as the historical, cultural, social, and political conditions in which luxury arts were produced, alongside their religious meanings and ritual functions.

According to Benzant, «Afrospanglish explores and develops many of the original, ideographic, visual strategies of the Signatures series but also incorporates the idea of conflating personal cosmology and abstract - figuration that generate compositions characterized by large heads which function as conduits or metaphors for cultural / personal memory, inner - worlds, ancestors, spirits or universes akin to the cosmology of Bakongo - derived ritual charms known as nkisi.

She is interested in exploring ritual as a vehicle for social change, and questioning the role of artists in contributing to the cultural heritage of tomorrow.

As ritual goes hand - in - hand with remembrance, and monuments along with memorials are often the centrepieces of ritualistic acts, the works in Monument to Cold War Victory proposed to change not only the landscape of our cultural heritage but also the routines of memory.

By incorporating influences from his ethnic and cultural background such as the Xhosa language and references to traditional craft, ritual, sexual orientation, gender, and nationality into his works, Hlobo address the constant shifting and subjective nature inherent in these identifiers.

She poses questions related to memory as read through the body, through folklores and folktales, through home and homeland, and through cultural ritual or practice.

Artist William Cordova describes her as, «a cultural practitioner invested in ritual, the quotidian and syncretic relationships.

The Swedish artist, Christian Andersson, stages his exhibition in the Von Bartha Gallery as a clever commentary on the cultural - philosophical discourses and rituals of the art market.

Mike Kelley based his 2005 — 6 Day is Done on a series of high school yearbook photographs of «extracurricular activities,» which Kelley transformed into a fractured, quasi-narrative musical that cycles through themes such as personal trauma, the structure of the institution, repressed memory, mass cultural ritual, and adolescence.

He might have seemed, at the time, to be speaking for the great cultural movement about to emerge — for James Joyce, with his layering of classical myth and the profane reality of early - twentieth - century Dublin in Ulysses; for Picasso, whose postwar art of pastiche seemed to disassemble and recombine historical styles just as his earlier work had taken apart and reconstructed pictorial space; for Stravinsky, whose music had found a sense of modernity in both primitive ritual (The Rite of Spring) and the mincing artifices of the eighteenth - century ballroom (Pulcinella), and who sought for his Oedipus Rex «a medium not dead but turned to stone.»

As the director and curator of Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery she curated Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned culture - jamming group; Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions, which explored sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She, a traveling exhibition on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, among other exhibitionAs the director and curator of Carnegie Mellon's Miller Gallery she curated Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with The Yes Men, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned culture - jamming group; Whatever It Takes: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions, which explored sports fanaticism as a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She, a traveling exhibition on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, among other exhibitionas a significant form of cultural production; and Alien She, a traveling exhibition on the lasting impact of the global punk feminist movement Riot Grrrl, among other exhibitions.

And while years of mission experience has imbued traditional owners with elements of Christian belief and practice, most traditional owners also hold the Dreaming, and its accompanying ritual system, as fundamental, both to their lives and the wellbeing of the ongoing socio - cultural order of which they are part.