Sentences with phrase «own cultural rituals»

«This scheme has the potential to increase the level of commitment the employer can expect and reinforces the idea for the employee that training is a valuable investment and not just a cultural ritual they must endure.»

It made its way into homes and towns through folktales and cultural rituals.

And religion and elaborate group cultural rituals, like singing or dancing together, act as social glue among people in large groups.

We are descended from groups that had fine - tuned mental mechanisms and cultural rituals for binding themselves together into communities able to work together, suppress free riders, and achieve common ends.

The engravings (petroglyphs), some of which are thought to be up to 2,000 years old, include depictions of animals, humans and cultural rituals.

I like to photograph people, to capture «moments» in their lives, from cultural rituals to daily life activities.

I like to photograph people, to capture «moments» in their lives, from cultural rituals to daily life activities.

Filmmaking, the human condition, cultural rituals, religions and practices, technology, storytelling.

Her tragicomic situations suggest the futility of personal and cultural ritual as they bring to the foreground issues of feminine identity and fear of success.

These images reflect my experience of daily life in Greece and the religious and cultural rituals on the islands of Lesvos, birthplace of my maternal grandmother, and Crete where I am teaching photography.

In their works Mildes examine themes that include domesticity, food and cultural rituals of daily reality offering the public an active role in various actions and situations allowing to reframe given cultural norms and stereotypes.

Her tragicomic situations suggest the futility of personal and cultural ritual as they bring to the foreground issues of feminine identity and fearRead more

The Hamptons is a unique place that has created its own cultural rituals.

The coming year promises even more exposure for the artist's spellbinding practice, which explores the intersection of self - expression, sexual freedom, and cultural ritual.

She poses questions related to memory as read through the body, through folklores and folktales, through home and homeland, and through cultural ritual or practice.

Mike Kelley based his 2005 — 6 Day is Done on a series of high school yearbook photographs of «extracurricular activities,» which Kelley transformed into a fractured, quasi-narrative musical that cycles through themes such as personal trauma, the structure of the institution, repressed memory, mass cultural ritual, and adolescence.

I like to photograph people, to capture «moments» in their lives, from cultural rituals to daily life activities.

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They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

The have left the cultural world to focus and devote their lives to God in the simple and daily practices of prayer, ritual, and service.

The weighted hour of death, with all its cultural and religious ritual, has been tied to the acquisition of transplantable organs.

Along with Indian cultural events, support groups and local medical consultations, twice a week the sweatlodge ceremonies are carried out: the ceremonial pipes are prepared, the rocks heated in the firepit, the ancient spiritual songs remembered, the purification rituals relived.

Studies in cultural anthropology have, become most useful to us in understanding ritual behavior, and theologians in the past decade have been discussing these studies more than ever before.

Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 were grounded in cultural concerns about patriarchal gender roles and religious ritual purity.

With respect to the human personality, the deepest ordering of impulse is cultural, is religious, occurs in myth and ritual.

Ritual lies and institutionalized deceit have achieved cultural approval.

«Without the dictates of religious authority to follow, or the rituals of unwavering cultural practice to enact, we had no choice but to invent a wedding for ourselves,» she writes.

Girard demonstrates the presence of violence throughout mythology, ritual, and cultural activity dependent upon ritual.

Christian liturgy is an example of cultural performance grounded in a ritual mode but puts together «types of performance that are sacred and secular, that are religious, aesthetic, and recreational», is «quasi-theatrical» but «is no pretense, but an actual, here and now doing» Following Schechner, Driver braids «efficacious» aspects of ritual performance with «entertaining» elements of «aesthetic» theatre.

Now communication scholars have integrated insights from the fields of anthropology and cultural studies and are conscious of the significance of myth, symbol, story telling and ritual in media / audience analysis.

The diversity of religious rituals and beliefs has been taken as support for historical and cultural relativism.

It is in the pantheon of these religious symbols and rituals that the Mexican - American experiences the deepest belonging and cultural communion.

In his 1909 classic work, The Rites of Passage, Van Gennep correlated spatial or geographical progression with the ritual marking of cultural «passages.»

He thinks that «rituals made strikes into cultural events,» while the singing of «time - honored revolutionary songs» and the «totemic identification of places, buildings, squares and marching routes» form «an inversion of religious processions.»

Also adhering to a cultural enrichment protocol, this spa introduces and honors ancient healing techniques and shamanistic treatments and rituals from the Huichol Indians, a reclusive tribe living in the heart of the surrounding Sierra Madre Mountains.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

World Health Organization gives a recomended age until 2 not 5 as another commenter posted, Most Old - time Cultural Rights of passages including Judaism, and tribal ritual from the old world and new, hold ceremonies for the age of 3, because the baby is entering childhood and no longer need the breast.

Articles on childbirth and obstetrics «On Pregnancy» (ok as is) «On Childbirth» (ok as is) «Childbirth» (Sagesbirth4) «Culture and Birth: The Technocratic Imperative» -LCB- ok as is -RCB- «The Rituals of American Hospital Birth» -LCB- ok as is -RCB- «Obstetric Training as a Rite of Passage» (ok as is -RCB- «The Technocratic Body: American Childbirth as Cultural Expression» -LCB- ok as is -RCB- «The Technocratic Model of Birth» -LCB- TechMod -RCB- «The Technocratic, Humanistic, and Holistic Models of Birth» -LCB- ok as is -RCB- «Anthropology and -LSB-...]

Plenary Session: «The Technocratic Body: American Childbirth as Cultural Expression»; Breakouts: «American Paradigms of Birth and Health Care»; «The Power of Ritual»; «Malaise and Meaning in Postmodern Midwifery and Childbirth Education»

The results of that work appear in two unpublished papers: «Myth and Ritual in Modern Mexico: A Shaman and his Group»; «Myth, Ritual, and Shamanism: A Symbolic Analysis of Cultural Vitality in Mexico.»

The rituals of american hospital birth This article appears in Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 8th ed., David McCurdy, ed., HarperCollins, New York, 1994, pp. 323 - 340.

Topics: «Birth as an American Cultural Experience» «Cultural Roots of Violence Against Women»; «' Power of Ritual»

• Circumcision originated more than 15,000 years ago, and until the 19th century it was performed solely for religious, ritual, or cultural reasons.

Anthropologists and ethnologists have uncovered much cultural evidence, from oral histories and illustrations, that ancient African artists often used ritual animal blood in their creations, generally as attempts to please or appease their deities.

The study also suggests turkeys weren't only prized for their meat — with demand for the birds soaring with the Mayans and Aztecs because of their cultural significance in rituals and sacrifices.

This poll shows intriguing cultural variations on how we tackle this nightly, biological ritual.

The poll found some intriguing cultural differences in the bedtime rituals and habits of the six countries.

Researchers said this practice may signify cultural elements and early sacred rituals.

All the rituals, the blessings girls are receiving from cultural elders, the good lessons and teachings they're getting from parents, from their mothers and grandmothers — those are good teachings.

I personally feel that a comparison can be made to that of a «ritual elder» as cultural expert Robert Moore describes in his book, «The Archetype of Initiation».

A workaholic executive, and an unconventional woman agree to a Chinese death rituals follow a rich cultural tradition dating back to the earliest dynasties.