Sentences with phrase «folkways of»

Unlike European modernists who understood the «primitive» within a colonial framework that placed Europe at the top of an imagined scale of development, Johnson's primitivism had more to do with «the community values and folkways of all marginalized peoples.

Written in poetic language and saturated with the flavors, smells, and folkways of America's southwest, this captivating tall tale brings life to an engaging, original character, whose love and concern for her neighbors fills the story with joy.

To be wise is to be instructed in the folkways of the grandmothers and grandfathers.

The distribution of cannabis was still stuck in the old street - dealer folkways of pot brokers, burner cell phones, and sketchy handoffs of drugs and cash.

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By awakening previously dormant assets like human attention or latent computer memory, the potential for cryptocurrencies to profoundly change our mores and folkways is at the heart of this emerging technology.

Yet Cavicchi, who scoured the Library of Congress and the archives of the Smithsonian Folkways record label to compile the exhibit, found his personal interest piqued the most by the tales of Muslim punks.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

Hence, only by revealing his own views of his place in the cosmos - which are religious as even such nontraditionalists as Spinoza and Einstein understood - can Schlesinger argue for the authority of «History,» or «our folkways, traditions, standards.»

Anyone today who struggles through Kaplan's ponderous prose setting forth such banal and simplistic propositions as that Judaism is a «civilization» rather than a «religion,» that American Jews live in «two civilizations,» that the Jewish religious system is a collection of folkways, and that God is an idea rather than a personality must wonder what all the fuss is about.

The folkways and loyalties in the life of a congregation change slowly, but there can be new life in a congregation.

In Japanese Music and Musical Instruments, by William P. Malm, there is a brief chapter on Buddhist religious music, and a little information can be gleaned from the notes accompanying recordings of Japanese music by Folkways (FR8980), but the study of music in the Buddhism of China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet has not yet been written.

A large portion of Budapest's population consisted of families from the non «Hungarian provinces, and as a whole the country's folkways were so exotic, with traces of oriental ancestry (and its language being indisputably Asian), that in Europe Hungary was conventionally thought of as having one foot in the West and one foot in East.

In Polish, Greek, Portuguese, German and French social clubs and organizations the old languages, stories, memories and folkways are nurtured; there people can meet and send their children to learn of the cultural and ethnic history of their forebears.

They give Americans their peculiar folkways and mores, their public behavior and private opinions, the patterns of their social skills and know - how about everything, from building a family fallout shelter to performing the latest dance step.

It's about the traditions of that region, the foodways and the folkways, and about working within view of what has been done for generations and trying to find new and exciting ways to express it.»

Jan 04,2016... Folkways are always getting ahead of legal codes, especially codes that restrict such ubiquitous hum...

Thank goodness Smithsonian Folkways can have a sense of humor about «promotion.»

And just this year, I had the incredible honor of writing the liner notes for this newest album, Sunny Day, released just this month by Smithsonian Folkways (who also release the work of all the fine folks I mentioned up above).

The Anthology of American Folk Music is a six - album compilation released in 1952 by Folkways Records (catalogue FP 251, FP 252, and FP 253), comprising Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture.

These two unglamorous peeks into our native: folkways — some bizarre, some banal — are mysterious and disturbing, their seedy, documentary - like casualness heightening a sense of unanswerable terror.

They define school culture as an «underground flow of feelings and folkways [wending] its way within schools» in the form of vision and values, beliefs and assumptions, rituals and ceremonies, history and stories, and physical symbols.

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