Sentences with phrase «many cultural meanings»

We discovered some barriers to entry around the use, social value and cultural meaning of the English language, internet usage and trust in digital platforms that were specific to Egypt.
«Words in the dictionary have different cultural meaning over time.
Words burdened by implicit cultural meaning have greater standing than any syllogism.
His main argument is as follows: «The word Hindu which had essentially geographic and cultural meaning began to acquire religious connotations» and communal overtones when missionary religious began converting the untouchables and lower castes of Hindu society with promise of their liberation from caste indignities.
The indifference of philosophers to Christianity has nothing to do with their dependence upon a nexus of cultural meaning which, in subtle and unobtrusive ways, permeates every discourse that, of necessity, draws upon a given heritage of accumulative cultural meaning.
The Minjung are deprived of access to science and technology in the industrial society; and they are denied the cultural means to cope with the world information and communication order, now dominated by the global corporate powers.
At the same time, our distinctly Christian codes of personal ethics do not reveal the only meanings in MASH, and, as Christians, we also have to be sensitive and aware of the wider cultural meanings, meanings in the programs, meanings that may or may not also be Christian — the anti-war message, the compassion, the community, the healing, and, of course, the humor — and celebrate, criticize and enjoy them as well.
It is an exercise in the analysis and interpretation of cultural meaning rather than in sociological explanation, though some of the latter is necessarily present.
Reason, as a process of systematic reflection, replaces absolute axiomatic laws as the basis on which cultural meaning and coherence rests.
Although American society in terms of social and economic variables are present in Dr. Bellah's writing here, his approach is rather a study and analysis of cultural meaning.
The Minjung are not only deprived of access to science and technology in the industrial and post-industrial societies; but also they are suppressed by technocracy; and they are denied the cultural means to cope with the world information and communication order, now dominated by the global corporate powers.
Topic: «History and Cultural Meaning of Birth Technologies.»
According to the same study, «children's participation in mundane daily life activities (i.e. bathing, eating, chores) are a critical foundation upon which social relationships and ultimately cultural meaning systems are constructed.»
Ultimately, the FDA,... and Health Canada seem to be operating under what philosopher Rhonda Shaw has identified as the «Yuk Factor» — responding to the dominant cultural meaning of milk sharing rather than the medical issues associated with milk sharing.
Another idea is that the accumulation of stones might have a symbolic or cultural meaning, for example marking territory in the way that humans do with stone cairns.
He favors fighting dysevolution on its own terms, by cultural means.
In the contemporary cultural meaning, the phrase «Western world» includes Europe, as well as many countries of European colonial origin with substantial European ancestral populations in the Americas and Oceania.
The cultural meanings of dating should be acknowledged when making generalizations and building theoretical constructs on romantic relationships, as well as in applying American research results in describing Finnish romantic relationships.
Recently, an acquaintance wondered about the larger cultural meaning of so many films in which cities are annihilated.
The gap left in the broader cultural imagination by this missing footage has, since the time of her death, been one filmmakers have returned to on numerous occasions in an attempt to fill the space she left behind with new visual data, new stories, new ways of comprehending what happened and what its broader cultural meaning could be.
In their 2011 book, Kraehe and Brown state «Whether visual, performance - based, literary, digital, or a combination of these, arts - based inquiry is a process one undertakes to transform prior understandings and misunderstandings through the manipulation of material and symbolic tools and the reconstruction of social and cultural meaning
Amazon's Kindle Singles has just published a long, fascinating essay about the cultural meaning of Comic - Con by Douglas Wolk, author of the Eisner - winning book Reading Comics.
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Similar to good - luck charms, the amulets are composed of «fetishes» or things collected in the streets to make art works that may have spiritual or cultural meaning such as horse tails, sandals, mirrors, prayer beads, small bottles, and CDs.
Born in the early - to mid-20th century with no formal training, their creative spirits compelled them to make eclectic and found - object works steeped in religious, historic and cultural meaning and quilts with family and regional heritage literally sewn through the fabric.
And while it has been popular of late to display actual handmade African - American quilts, such as the ones exhibited in upscale New York galleries, Huckaby's act of repainting quilts disarms them as fetishized aesthetic objects while folding their weighted cultural meaning into the history of painting.
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.
Through the use of portraiture in storytelling, people have been able to document history, find cultural meaning, and explore personal beliefs.
Part flesh, part baroque architecture, the alien vessel contains multiple levels of historical and cultural meanings; from science fiction to luxury furniture, the work seamlessly weaves cultural artifacts into a sleek and surreal CGI moving image artwork.
Building from the notion that the bulletin board is not a neutral surface, but a space withpreexisting cultural meaning, vocabularies, and opportunities, Lauren Anderson adopts the CCS Bard Bulletin Board as a site in her ongoing investigation of visual culture.
In contemporary U.S. culture, abstract art is difficult for many to grasp because it so completely defeats the imposition of language on art that cultural meaning falls away.
In another explorative approach, existing plates are given new decorative life and cultural meaning.
In this sense, the show is not a provocation; it is one extended contemplation — on art, on politics, on life, on America, through Ligon's attempt to tease immediate cultural meanings out of the semiotics of color.
Through each of these mediums the artist finds contemporary currency, personal symbol and cultural meaning of longing, seduction, desire and romance, while also revealing a highly personal vision, fusing and transforming sentiment, wisdom and emotional experience into visual - art forms.
In Chagani's work, it is not just the use of scale that piques viewer interest but also the fact that it is pregnant with historical and cultural meanings.
These statuettes have startling resonances with African tourist tat, which become knock - offs of a knock - off: sculptures which have their original cultural meaning buried in layers of copies.
Using hair, beads, tissue paper, rubber tires, plastic and other materials, the artists craft provocative forms and intricate surfaces that play on unique cultural meanings, personal memories and social agendas.
Janine Antoni has been internationally acclaimed for her distinctive performative object pieces and for the unusual materials she deploys to recast the aesthetic and cultural meaning of sexual difference.
Sun Splashed includes artworks made from soda pop bottles, shoelaces, shopping carts, and a fire escape — materials that speak to the artist's distinctive experimentation and resonate with social, political, and cultural meaning.
Salvaged from billboards, telephone poles, and the supply drawers of beauty salons, this humble urban detritus resonates with cultural meaning and a sense of place.
Palermo's unique brand of Modernism is about how similar forms can have very different cultural meanings.
A 2000 graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, Geyer works with photography, video and performance, using both fiction and documentary strategies in order to address larger concepts such as national identity, gender, and class in the context of the ongoing re-adjustment of cultural meanings and social memories.
The immense range of materials is both a testament to the fantastic advancements in electronics and a spectacular critique of the cultural meanings embedded in them.
Within the context of the gallery these items become art objects loaded with cultural meaning.
Gaba is also well known for his architectonic wigs that reconstruct famous landmarks out of woven hair, looking at the way in which architectural forms are imbued with cultural meaning.
The back («verso») carries significantly less cultural meaning, destined to remain beyond the public's view, and only visible to the artists themselves or staff at museums and galleries.
SONYA CLARK STIRS HISTORY and explores cultural meaning using human hair and all of its heavy and joyous symbolism.
His practice is driven by his interest in the semiotic function of images and texts: how they are used to form both personal and cultural meaning, values, and beliefs.
This antagonistic staging and restaging of history through cultural means, as the curators and organizers observe, involves a detailed history of performance art from and about the so - called Arab world.
The «X» shape of a cross holds a number of cultural meanings, denoting a kiss, for example, or registering negation.
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