Sentences with phrase «cultural taboos in»

Not exact matches

Just goes to show how much of Church taboos are in fact cultural rather than «scriptural» in nature.

It is a difficult enterprise to maintain in a time when taboos lie strewn across the cultural battlefield, but Ms. Brown, being British, knows that there is still a giggle to be milked from an audience that only vaguely remembers what was supposed to be sacred about the institutions and ideas now so casually mocked.

Post-modern radicalism postulates that the individual, in order to exercise his right to choose, must be able to free himself from all normative frameworks — whether they be semantic (clear definitions), ontological (being, the given), political (sovereignty of the state), moral (transcendent norms), social (taboos, what is forbidden), cultural (traditions) or religious (dogma, doctrine of the Church).

«The taboo of discussing «strange» cultural and the — now more than ever — different world of dietary issues, both personal and medicinal, is addressed in a casual, fun and inspiring story involving two friends.

Before, questioning bullfighting as a cultural tradition had been taboo in Spain — to do so was to be seen as a traitor, unpatriotic.

The bright spots shared several characteristics, including high levels of local engagement in resource management, high dependence on local marine resources, and protective cultural taboos — such as excluding fishers from outside the local village.

Nevertheless, the work remains an outstanding model of scientific bravery in the 20th century, with its insistence that sexual acts be described as healthy functions of the human body and that cultural taboos not stand in the way of science.

Other important cultural topics include words and subjects that are considered taboo or dirty in the Russian culture.

Surveys conducted years ago show a drastic increase in the number of interracial relationships or marriages, thanks to the constantly changing cultural taboo.

Surveys conducted in the past years show a drastic increase in the number of interracial marriages or relationships, thanks to the changing cultural taboo.

It's interesting to think about Philadelphia, dated and slightly stereotypical as it is, as a product of its time and an effort to broach a taboo subject in light of today's cultural movement in Hollywood for diversity in storytelling.

Rather than attacking the obvious bigots, Peele's «I Am Not Your Negro» thriller goes after those who consider themselves liberal, launching a daring direct attack on so many cultural codes long enforced by Hollywood: the white male gaze, the mixed - race couple taboo, the hapless wide - eyed African - American stereotype and the myth that we are somehow living in a post-racial society.

The insanity of the plot, the cultural taboos at its center and the daring opacity of its prologue (another tool revisited in

From the celebrated film Juno to a pregnancy boom at Gloucester High School, in Gloucester, Massachusetts (where 17 girls confessed to making a pact to become pregnant together), plus the high - profile pregnancies of 16 - year - old actress Jamie Lynn Spears and 17 - year - old Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a more accepting attitude seems to be replacing an old taboo, and students are not immune to the cultural shift.

It's a bit of a cultural taboo to take food out of your mouth in Japan, so these sticks of pineapple - flavored «gum» are actually taffy made to look and chew like gum.

The exhibition will address his «prodigious and penetrating contribution in the taboo subject of sexuality, portrayals thereof, and its indissociable link to the boundless promise conveyed by the cultural, material and economic bounty of post-war American society.»

Following on from French President Emmanuel Macron's promise last year to return African cultural heritage, the president of the ethnographic Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac in Paris, Stéphane Martin, has signalled that the institution is open to the idea, telling The Art Newspaper that «if together, and possibly with international co-operation with other Western partners, we can build one, two or three safe museums in Africa, I would not even consider transfers of ownership as taboo».

Despite a cultural taboo, Namdakov has addressed the subject of Genghis Khan, sculpting the great Mongolian leader in bronze (2003, 2011) and acting as art director in the film Mongol (2007), for which he received Russia's Nika Award for Best Art Direction.

This alleged «cultural evolution» encourages the artist to deconstruct and build artifacts in which he mixes — without taboos — the trivial, decorative and well - measured paraphernalia of luxury culture with elements from the suburban culture: snake skins, leopard patterns, gold and fake carbon fibers that aspire to shine in an asphaltic grey.

It is dedicated to today's cultural avant - garde: art that defines itself unconstrainedly through the breaks in life — even by breaking taboos — in the tradition of Jewish collectors, who have always promoted the latest trends in art.

The real issue and taboo is what cultural do all of these groups have in common that create such a willful blindness that existed in the AGW movement and reaction?

«This report notes cultural taboos surround this issue in some countries, preventing progress,» says Zafar Adeel, Director of UNU - INWEH.

This week, Publishers Weekly described the book as «an astonishingly forthright work by a Canadian lawyer [that] traces her painful personal journey through chronic loneliness in light of social taboos and changing cultural and medical notions.»