Sentences with phrase «peasant villages»

It looks almost out of place — a leafy oasis in a sea of humanity, a spot of nature amid peasant villages and irrigated rice and manioc farms.

The markets connected people in even the smallest peasant villages with the larger informal Aztec economy of central Mexico.

Back then, when someone explicitly identifies him or herself as a «Christian», the image is someone who does missionary work, living among peasant villages, not to prosyletyze but to provide education, basic health care, and crisis relief.

The need may be for simple improvements in farming implements and seeds for subsistence farmers along with aid to peasant villages for improved hygiene and reforestation of their hills.

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

Agriculture is of more basic importance than industry, the peasant village than the city.

Unconsciously, perhaps, the subsistence farmer, and even the peasant village, are assimilated to images of an unhistorical nature which serves civilization and industrialization but has no inherent reality.

That's because your average medieval peasant village did not have a weather station, and neither Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit nor Anders Celsius had yet been born.

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Effectively, there are 22,000 peasant - farmer organisations at the village level which, since 1967, try to propel economic development from their culture by opposing imported production models.

Even up to 5,000 years ago such settlements were small, consisting of semi-permanent villages of peasant farmers.

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

«They didn't come to tell us how to do things, which is what the gringos have always done in the past,» said Toribio Dubón, a peasant leader in Nueva Victoria, a rebuilt village in the Honduran province of Santa Barbara.

Viewing Jesus as a country peasant who combined marginal farming with village carpentry, Legrand suggests that Jesus» work must have been in building houses which involved very little wood work since house construction those days was little dependent on wood.24 Therefore, additional farm work was inevitable for the sake of subsistence.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.

Even the ceremonies of the church become pagan rites, celebrating the existence of inanimate things, which the peasants endow with a soul, the innumerable earthy divinities of the village.

Whether he's burninating villages, peasants, or all the pitchers, it needs to be noted accordingly.

Regarding the outfit details, there's that homesewn tan skirt again, but this time paired with my brown lace up flats, a new thrifted white peasant blouse top, a stack of Indian bangles from Ten Thousand Villages and my new purse from Top Vintage.

I like, for instance, that it's unapologetic about terrorizing someone like Marion Cotillard with an entire village of Chinese peasants.

Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng's majestic future.

That he won't remain a solitary man for long is obvious from the way his eyes keep meeting those of the village girl, Isabel (Alicia Vikander), a pre-Raphaelite beauty in flowing peasant dress.

Last Train Home Where: Red Vic Movie House, 1727 Haight St., 415-668-3994 When: Jan. 23 - 24 Why: It's an annual tradition created by accelerated modernization, an expanding economy and the world's largest populace: Each year, 130 million Chinese peasants, displaced from their villages to work in urban factories, crowd train stations to return home for the New Year.

Lesson 1: Villages and Towns Lesson 2: Religion and the Church Lesson 3: Crime and Punishment Lesson 4: The Murder of Thomas Becket Lesson 5: Life as a Medieval Knight Lesson 6: King John and the Magna Carta Lesson 7: The Peasants Revolt, 1381 The lessons on Thomas Becket and King John also have newly designed assessments that reflect the demands of the new GCSE.

Despite Huntington's thorough presentation of the evidence, I am not convinced that the research shows that the process of assimilation - in particular, the acquisition of language and improvements in student achievement - is proceeding any slower among second - and third - generation Mexican - Americans than it did among other immigrants from peasant and village and small - town backgrounds.

Disguised as a peasant, she attends the village school as the smart new girl, «Pat,» and attracts friends and the attention of the handsome schoolmaster.

Li Cunxin was born into an extremely poor peasant family in Qingdoa, a remote commune village in Northern China in 1961.

The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths.

The Colca Canyon, with more than 1 kilometer from cliff - edge to river bottom therefore considered the deepest in the world, has pictoresque pre-inca terracing, impressive scenery and friendly Indian villages (e.g. Chivay) with traditionally dressed peasants.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Kazimir Malevich spent his childhood living in villages across Ukraine, where he developed a love of peasant art and embroidery.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Malevich spent his childhood living in rural villages across Ukraine where he found a love of peasant art and embroidery.

The Hindu: Polluted skies, dead rivers, disappearing forests and displacement of peasants and tribal are what we see around us 40 years after the Chipko movement started On the 27th of March 1973 — exactly 40 years ago — a group of peasants in a remote Himalayan village stopped a group of loggers from felling [continue reading...]