Sentences with phrase «existing lower cultures»

In the modern age an interest has been awakened in the study of existing lower cultures, and as a result much of their legendary lore, their songs, their rituals, their laws, are being translated into modern languages and published.

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Anyway, the only culture war that exists is on TV which considering overall TV viewership as a % is at an all - time low I find quite funny.

If not, what kinds of regulatory standards could also facilitate a «low» policy that respects existing cultures, encourages critical discourse, values history and empowers even religious institutions?

Using existing low - cost and low - weight technology in new ways, the team created a modular «life detection platform» able to culture microorganisms from soil samples, assess microbial activity, and sequence DNA and RNA.

I'm definitely not advocating for eating fat in mass quantities, but I think it's important to re-evaluate the low - fat craze of the 80s and general fear of fat that still exists in much of American culture.

Others have charged that poor teacher working conditions, such as low salaries and test - driven school cultures, are nudging existing and potential educators toward other professions, especially with the economy improving.

The idea is to challenge the internal credit culture of the firm, and analyze the market dynamics that might be creating a lower price in the short run than might exist in the long run.

In that essay Greenberg dissects American art and culture; and he suggests that high and low art can exist simultaneously at any given moment in our civilization.

By exploring the unique Italian ethos and traditions of family through symbols, possessions and objects, as well as systems and relationships that exist in Italian culture, Hart wants to expose the highs and lows and everyday realities of family life.

An early member of the Chicago - based 1960s collective the Hairy Who (which later morphed into the Chicago Imagist Group), Wirsum's works speak widely to the canon of modern artists who privilege experimentation and transgression over cohesive style, and who used popular culture as if the boundaries between high and low had never existed.

Pop Art introduced recognizable imagery, drawn mainly from popular culture into art, severing the boundaries that had previously existed between traditional fine art and everyday life, and between so - called high art and low culture.

«I think high and low culture have to go together to exist,» says Smith of being able to reconcile his fascination with both the latest Usher single and the recent Fischer show in New York City, a «Spider - Man» reboot and a «Gerhard Richter Painting» documentary.