Sentences with phrase «from cultural taboo»

shared morality comes from cultural taboo and h0m0 - empathicus's evolutionary standards,..

From cultural taboos to symbols of power, tattoos, piercings and other forms of body modification have played significantly different roles within different societies for thousands of years.

Not exact matches

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).

But to depict the Jew on the cross after the war was to confront a stronger taboo, for to do so required the victim to borrow from the oppressor's cultural tradition.

The cultural taboos against nudity for Christians came not from Jesus Christ, but from Emporer Constantine who founded the heresy known as Catholicism and was continued on by John Henry Calvin.

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.

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.

They act as remainders from architectural projects lost and reminders of popular cultural taboos.

Inverting the vegetarian premise of this edition of Food Art Week, MOMENTUM uses the occasion of our partnership to engage with five artists from the MOMENTUM Collection and our Artist Residency Program (MOMENTUM AiR) who work with meat as an artistic medium, and as an effective commentary upon cultural practices and taboos.

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».

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.

Margaret Harrison tackles gender politics through the use of iconic characters such as Captain America and Playboy pinups, Meriem Bennani's animations explore Muslim cultural taboos, and Jamian Juliano - Villani's surreal paintings distort familiar images from pop culture and comics.