Sentences with phrase «how cultural meaning»

She explores the possibilities of performance art as a way to continue her research on the relationship between people and objects, and to further investigate the commoditization of culture, assimilation, and how cultural meaning is transformed in the multicultural urban environment and is absorbed into new social contexts.

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How did this girl, born into modest means to communist survivors of China's Cultural Revolution, transform into an international superstar and win the «invited status» she can now flaunt, to the overwhelmingly male and European Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture?

Jesus knew what the passages meant, knew their historical, cultural, and situational context, and knew how to apply these verses to the current crisis He was facing (See the Commentary on Luke 4:1 - 13 for more).

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

To his credit, Mr. Wieseltier recognizes that the critical questions in Eastern Europe are cultural — how people contrive to articulate the «meaning of their lives.»

A failure to explore how the activity of theological inquiry is located in and inescapably shaped by patterns of activity that are dictated by its social and cultural setting and, just as important, patterns that are dictated by institutional power arrangements, deprives theological inquiry of the means for its self - criticism and correction.

Whole books could be written on the idea of cursing, profanity, expletives, what defines those terms, how cultural context affect language's meaning, etc..

If understanding is a closure of meaning that includes an encounter with the alterity of the text, how can the production of meaning comprehend the complexity of the text as both a «cultural speech performance» (29) and a code of linguistic signs?

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

Since cultural contexts and word meanings change, how is inerrancy maintained?

How many people have ever given thought to what it means to tear oneself up by the roots and leave an environment that has been one's physical, cultural and emotional home perhaps for generations?

I've become a lot more aware recently of how we tend to read the Bible through our own cultural lens without stopping to think what things meant for the people at the time.

As we teach the Bible I think it's important that we both understand what things meant in their original cultural context, and also understand our own culture and how we can best communicate exactly the same message in our own context.

It also could provide a means whereby other influential factors could be investigated and addressed, such as differences in the social and economic purposes of broadcasting, the social sources of violence and how media portrayals interact with those causes, how the restraints and traditions of media production cause the media to pick up particular cultural images while ignoring others, and how particular audiences respond to and use media images.

And how many people are really just «cultural Christians»... meaning they aren't really involved in Christianity but because they grew up here that what they claim they are.

CHRISTINE STEWART - FITZGERALD: Au pairs are, I mean they're providing a service of childcare and helping around the house in that regard, but in addition to childcare I mean, having au pair is really truly a cultural experience, so where do most of the au pairs come from and you know, how do they benefit from the program?

Cramer exposes how cultural ideas like the «rockin» post-baby body» are not only unattainable; they are a means of social control.

Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social, cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.

Time can mean many things, but Hillis's machine needs to track a particularly messy version: Earth - surface clock / calendar time, which is based on a byzantine agglomeration of astronomical rotations, orbits, and perturbations of hugely varying lengths, overlaid with arbitrary cultural whims about how to divide it up.

Despite our collective, cultural fascination with viral events, we know surprisingly little about what drives them, how often they occur or even what the term «viral» actually means.

Opening doors of opportunity Within the context of formal education the subject supports personal, social, moral, spiritual, cultural and creative development, and enables participants to engage with and explore visual, tactile and other sensory experiences and how to recognise and communicate ideas and meanings.

Before your e-Learning course is ready to be translated, it's important to consider how cultural differences can change the meaning of your online training course.

Before your e-Learning course is ready to be translated, it's important to consider how cultural differences can change the meaning...

As they investigate the interconnection between diverse people and places and the meaning and significance that places hold, they come to appreciate how various cultural identities, including their own, are shaped.

As they investigate the interconnection between people and places and the meaning and significance that places hold, they come to appreciate how various cultural identities, including their own, are shaped.

This meant that our teachers and staff needed both technical assistance — to help them make sense of the data — and time and support for the delicate work of forging bonds with local parents and other caretakers (which, for our mostly white workforce, often meant learning how to communicate effectively across cultural and racial boundaries).

Being an agent of cultural change means being aware of the subtle shared values of knowledge, customs, and habits; changing that culture requires having a moral purpose, building strong relationships, sharing knowledge, and knowing how and when to move from chaos to coherence.

How to assess close reading and help all students — regardless of linguistic, cultural, or academic background — connect deeply with what they read and derive meaning from a complex text.

Well meaning but sometimes brazen, Rodriguez stumbled through language barriers, overstepped cultural customs, and constantly juggled the challenges of a postwar nation even as she learned how to empower her students to become their families» breadwinners by learning the fundamentals of coloring techniques, haircutting, and makeup.

A trend Johnson notices is how millennials (Generation Y) and the next generation (Generation Z) have embraced cultural diversity and become extremely multicultural and inclusive, which means marketers can approach young people more by age group than by ethnic orientation.

Don discussed what the day - to - day life of a travel writer is like, how to approach travel as a pilgrimage, traveling to sensitive places that need to be preserved, the cultural effects travelers have on the places they visit, how best to visit areas that are politically volatile, how travel writing enhances the experience of travel, and figuring out the meaning of life.

It is fundamentally tied to how games mean, to why we play them, and to why they matter to us as individual players and as participants in the human cultural landscape.

«While it is perhaps not surprising that artists have found the night such a compelling subject for centuries, Night Vision sheds new light on the technical complexities and personal meanings embedded in its depictions, as well as how the period's unique cultural and social climate influenced subsequent artistic movements.»

She is continually exploring what it means - as an artists - to take the role of an observer, and how that type of action can be documented and presented in the context of cultural production.

Mucho Hombre, a Hispanic phrase meaning «a lot of man», is Calnan's project exploring the cultural implications of toys and more precisely My Little Pony, and how they can assist gender and identity formation.

How does technology allow artists new ways to create, and what does this mean in terms of cultural expression?

The variety of influences and means present in these six artists» works points to the diversity of their Asian backgrounds and to how, as a result, each artist's voice resonates as an individual contribution to the ever changing and expanding international cultural dialogue.

«This is an important time to reflect upon the last year and how Trump's presidency has impacted our society... It is extremely disturbing that our cultural foundation is being rocked by the very platform that is meant to protect and serve our nation.

But where the forms of Lynda Benglis explore how the visual influences the bodily or our «proprioception,» the visceral reactions Apfelbaum's work evokes are meant to tap into our cultural imagination.

Curated for the first time by Ralph Rugoff (Hayward Gallery, London), leading artists, musicians and cultural commentators will explore how — in an age of «alternative facts» — art's capacity to beguile, disorientate and disrupt conventional notions of «the real» can take on new meanings.

The artists in TRANSPARENCY SHADE: SEEING THROUGH THE SHADOW use cultural appropriation and hybrid materials to articulate the concept, engaging with and also problematizing such appropriation to investigate how meaning is and has been created in a postcolonial world.

(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) The exhibition examines by means of the presence in art how the cultural imaginary of this periphery was formed.

Revealing cultural connections that are both humorous and critical, while questioning the consequences of seeing anything as fixed, Andrews demonstrates how meanings are always contingent and in flux.

Informed by Ringgold's legacy as well as the current political climate, the exhibition poses questions about how to reconceptualize cultural representation, engagement, and critique: What spaces for agency are available to black artists today, and by what means have they produced spaces for themselves?

This exhibition, curated by graduate students in VCUarts» Museum Studies program, explored how museum presentations reconfigure meaning and reception of artworks displayed apart from the contexts of their conception, original function or cultural significance.

Bowling's painterly experimentation had led him to consider how abstract painting could be invested with social, cultural, and personal meaning without losing the essential and formal principles of painting.

This lecture is presented as part of Keywords, an exhibition and lecture programme looking at how changes in the meaning of words reflect the cultural shifts in our society.

Presented by Iniva in partnership with Tate Liverpool, the exhibition looks at how changes in the meaning of words reflect the cultural shifts in our society and is based on Raymond Williams» seminal text — Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society.

The discussion provides viewers with an opportunity to gain insight into how Shonibare's work offers a complex exploration and nuanced investigation into topics dealing with race, class and the meaning of cultural and national definitions.

Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture explores how matter can be both indifferent and contingent on encounter, exploring the malleability of meaning and the ways in which objects are accorded cultural and historical value.