Sentences with phrase «cultural specificity of»

Similarities in predictive patterns emphasize positive effects of a stimulating HLE for young children's development, irrespective of the cultural specificity of dyadic bookreading.

By doing so, researchers may illuminate practical issues related to pedagogy, therapy, and marital counseling, as well as critical theoretical issues related to understanding the universality versus cultural specificity of interpersonal relationship processes (Burleson, 2003).

His poignant sculptures unite an obtuse spiritual quality with reference to the historical and cultural specificity of the human figure.

London Oyster Shells recalls Flood - Paddock's large - scale installation Gangsta's Paradise, presented in 2010 at the Hayward Gallery, which made connections between Lewis - Carroll's poem The Walrus and the Carpenter, the film The Truman Show (1998) and the cultural specificity of moral questions related to the consumption of oysters.

The correspondence between apparently formally similar works, remembered from one place to another, underscored the radical difference and cultural specificity of respective practices, for example the disorienting slippage between image and sound of Bruce Nauman's Lip Sync (1969), in relation to the sucking, swallowing, silencing and disgorging of mouths in Anna Maria Maiolino's Super-8 film In - Out (Anthropophagy)(1973), a critique of American cultural imperialism.

In these collaborations, public art, prints and installations are ways for Arai to use the cultural specificity of her experience as an Asian American as a personal space in which to locate broader issues of race, gender and cultural equity; a space in which she believes a glimpse of common ground can be made possible.

Not exact matches

Cultural specificity is relevant even concerning the teachings of revealed religions.

Conversely, a contemplative religio - cultural and ecclesiastical agenda for theology was preoccupied exclusively with the specificities of the energy that flows from the God - human encounter; it neglected the fertile activity of God in the other realms of the world.

I think it's our responsibility [as birth workers] to let clients know of all their options and opportunities especially when it comes to cultural specificity - that culturally specific care is available.

Kung San infants: A test of the cultural specificity hypothesis.

In this view, good governance must be accommodated to different local and cultural specificities and concomitantly meet minimal global criteria of human rights and international law.

There's enough good - naturedness and cultural specificity here, alongside a slight deviation from the usual immigrant narratives, to render it a dollop of sweetness and novelty that goes down easy.

Featuring a marvelous sense of specificity (set during the 2002 - 03 school year, it has an eye and ear attuned to that cultural moment) and sharp, observant, generous writing, «Lady Bird» is frank, funny and wise.

But there's enough good - naturedness and cultural specificity here, alongside a slight deviation from the usual immigrant narratives, to render it a dollop of sweetness and novelty that goes down easy.

Director Ryan Coogler and his sprawling cast accomplish this in a number of ways, both familiar and uncommonly ambitious, and the aforementioned introduction cements one of the film's most successful approaches: the cultural, tonal, and stylistic specificity used to bring not only the Panther to life, but the world that created and molded him into the man he is when the film begins.

Diverse needs: Diverse needs might include learner variability; language skills; technology and internet access levels outside of school; cultural specificity and challenges at home such as poverty, homelessness or instability.

According to some researchers, the «cultural specificity» of intelligence makes IQ tests biased toward the environments in which they were developed — namely white, Western society.

Cohen was making the point that the specificity of the delusions is related to one's autobiography and the cultural context.

Both pioneering interdisciplinary artists have continually worked to subvert our own assumptions of medium specificity through work that simultaneously celebrates sumptuous materiality and the possibilities for the social and cultural implications of form.

The impact of his work — featured at the world's top venues and exhibitions, including Manifesta (2000) and the Venice Biennale (1999, 2001 and 2003)-- endorses Sala's conviction that art can transcend cultural references without losing any of its specificity nor, indeed, its power.

Although cultural specificity is important to the meanings of their works, each of these artists is also concerned with the complexities of individual and group identity, within and outside of nationality.

Satrapi feels that the language of drawing escapes cultural specificity.

«Contemporary African art has been present on the global art scene long enough for imaginary forms stemming from creative minds to be apprehended first and foremost through the intrinsic nature and the intricate relations between form, medium and space, before being loaded with the burden of history and cultural specificity.»

His work critically examines subject formation in the context of socio - cultural norms and historical specificities.

Martinez uses painting, sculpture, neon and installation to comment on issues affecting communities nationally, while responding to specificities associated with the City of Los Angeles, including its overlapping and intersectional modern hybrid cultural identities.

Purchased in the markets of Mexico City where the work was first shown, these cages project cultural specificity with their weathered patina and potential for a not - so - subtle political metaphor.

By anthologizing essays, documents, and interviews by leading critics, historians, and artists on issues of site - specificity, conceptualism, feminism, and architecture practice, Surface Tension reveals the connections between cultural production and the very spaces in which such work functions.

For his project «A work in situ», at REDCAT, John Knight revisits this relationship between two cohabiting institutions (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater and Walt Disney Concert Hall), in today's highly developed «cultural corridor» of downtown Los Angeles, considering the relationship between space, architecture, contemporary arts and real estate.Since the late «60s, John Knight has pioneered the practices of site - specificity and institutional critique, always interested in interrogating the underlying geopolitical and economic systems implicit in everyday convention.

This idea of the development of a generational craft work that spans time explores hand - me - down skills, stories and community, and by extension, cultural specificity and intercultural nature of British society.

A new wave of black abstract artists are exploring ways to push the language of abstraction and still retaining their cultural specificity.

A mise - en - scène of images takes place through a new language whose structure is made up of cultural and emotional stratifications in a succession of linguistic and pictorial images, where the latter lose their original / residual formal specificity.

Masters of their primary mediums and inspired by cultural specificity, each artist expands their artistic practice to embrace installation with works that fully engage the audience in constructed objects, the spaces they inhabit, and the concepts they conjure.

A common thread throughout the work of all of the artists in Rethinking History is the creation of a narrative which is not linear but fractured, diachronic, expressive of substantive moments of cultural / communal specificity.

The resultant treatments suggest an array of alt - cultural specificities, including flourishes of Goth, body politics, mythical and religious iconography, fetish and drag.

The Festival brings up a larger question of cultural specificity amidst the ever - expanding waves of globalism, and whether it is possible to understand and integrate the kind of cultural differences presented in this kind of exchange, rather than simply marking them off as expressions of a culture more exotic than our own.

Pwerle's representation of that narrative — formally sophisticated and dazzlingly transcendent — goes beyond cultural specificity, ethnographic stereotype or art historical precedent — to describe our place in the universe.

Site - Specificity In a world of global cultural flows, does the art - historical notion of site - specificity (as it developed in the post-Minimalist practices of the 1960s and «70s) still resonate, or is it now just a nostalgic attachmenSpecificity In a world of global cultural flows, does the art - historical notion of site - specificity (as it developed in the post-Minimalist practices of the 1960s and «70s) still resonate, or is it now just a nostalgic attachmenspecificity (as it developed in the post-Minimalist practices of the 1960s and «70s) still resonate, or is it now just a nostalgic attachment to place?

Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real - world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings.

To further determine the specificity of the mediating role of collectivistic cultural values on the association between allelic frequency of the 5 - HTTLPR and mental health disorders, we also conducted regression of mediation on 5 - HTTLPR, individualism — collectivism and two mental health disorders included in the 2008 WHO Mental Health Survey, but not previously associated with the 5 - HTTLPR, namely substance abuse and impulse control.

Recent cross-cultural neuroimaging evidence demonstrates cultural specificity in amygdala response to fear faces (Chiao et al. 2008) as well as modulation of medial prefrontal response during self - relevant processing as a function of individualistic and collectivistic cultural values (Chiao et al. 2009a, b).

It was highlighted that the programme managed to gather substantive information on cultural adaptation specificities, which will enable more productive expansion of the programme across the country.