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| | Ceremonial clothing in Western cultures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Many people adhering to Western religions welcome a new-born child into the congregation or the community with a special ceremony, such as baptism for Christian children or a bris for Jewish males in religious families. | | | Some Christian churches welcome children reaching "the age of reason" into the congregation as adults in the ceremony of confirmation. | | | Until the late 19th century, young Western boys and girls often wore the same attire: a dress. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonial_clothing_in_Western_cultures
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| | MSN Encarta - Printer-friendly - Clothing |
| | Clothing reformers later in the 19th century admired ancient Grecian dress because they thought it represented timeless beauty, the opposite of complicated and rapidly changing fashions of their time. | | | Tailored clothing that fits the body closely reached India and other parts of southern Asia with the expansion of the Islamic religion to the region, beginning in about the 14th century. | | | In Japan and Korea, Western-style clothing became widespread for both men and women in the 20th century, but by the end of the century interest in traditional clothing had returned. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761569657___10/Clothing.html
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| | Annual Review of Psychology: Cultural influences on personality. |
| | People from individualist cultures, however, were influenced more by commitment/consistency arguments (e.g., you have complied to a similar request in the past). | | | Cultures where wealth is easily moveable develop a "culture of honor" in which people are socialized to be fierce and to react aggressively to insults, so that strangers will be discouraged from stealing their moveable goods. | | | The allocentrics in individualist cultures are more likely than the idiocentrics to join groups--gangs, communes, unions, etc. The idiocentrics in collectivist cultures are more likely than the allocentrics to feel oppressed by their culture and to seek to leave it. |
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http://psicologiaefilosofia.no.sapo.pt/PCdoc07.html
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| | California mission clash of cultures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Alta California Missions are a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Franciscans from 1769 to 1823 for the purpose of spreading the Christian doctrine among the local Native Americans. | | | In fact, it has been generally held that most Indians enjoyed their new lives, and the many were able to sustain themselves after the fall of the mission system by utilizing the skills they had acquired at the missions. | | | The Indians also spent much of their days learning the Christian faith, and attended worship services several times a day. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Mission_Clash_of_Cultures
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| | yeow.html |
| | Insofar as people are made in the image of God, Christ is present in their cultures, both to judge the bad elements in cultures and to affirm that which is good in cultures. | | | Christ's presence in cultures makes His Cross "a stumbling block to the Jews and folly to the Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God". | | | To affirm Christ's presence in cultures is to affirm God's sovereignty as God cannot be absent from all that God has created. |
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http://www.pctii.org/cyberj/cyberj3/yeow.html
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| | Culture and Organization Software of the Mind by Geert Hofstede |
| | For a person coming from a collectivist culture individualist cultures can appear to be uncaring and too ready to ignore the rights of older people, and individualists can be confused in a collectivist culture because they can completely fail to take the importance of groups, like families, into account. | | | Strong uncertainty avoidance cultures also have an urge to work hard and an emotional need for rules (and taboos), and a fear of what is different, experts are very important and there is a desire for certainty and intolerance of alternative ideas. | | | While it is interesting to look at the different dimensions of national culture, and to see the differences between nations, this subject only becomes of real importance when we consider what this means in terms of the problems of people from different cultures living and working together. |
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http://www.psychicsahar.com/artman/publish/article_77.shtml
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| | Email as a learning technology in the South Pacific: An evaluation |
| | A recent study(Anakwe, 1999) investigated the media preferences of students from collectivist versus individualist cultures and concluded that collectivist students were significantly less comfortable with computer-mediated interaction favoring face-to-face interaction. | | | Society is also collectivist in nature with the custom of "Keri Keri" or not being able to refuse a favor that is asked of you by a member of your own in-group. | | | For example Chinese students from a collectivist culture have been found by some studies to adopt a rote learning approach, which is seen by their western individualist teachers as inferior (Samuelowicz, 1987). |
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http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/vol_3_2002/frank.html
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| | Sipapu--Frequently Asked Questions |
| | Much of the political life was focused on village or multivillage ceremonial events that included feasts arranged by powerful headmen with the support of their lineages and other allies. | | | Because cloth, sandal fibers, and leather do not preserve especially well, we find it somewhat difficult to determine what the Anasazi wore. | | | Clothing made of fur and leather has also been identified and were likely used during the colder months; it does snow in many parts of the Anasazi's world. |
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http://sipapu.gsu.edu/html/faq.html
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| | Chapter 1 |
| | Notes: Traces the cultural differences in sexual practices between the Franciscans and the California Indians and because of venereal diseases the Spaniards reduced the Indian population severely. | | | Notes: The text is at the juvenile reading level and presents the mission from the perspectives of a priest, Chumash Indians at the mission, and military officers. | | | Notes: Covers missions and churches beginning with the seventeenth century. |
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http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/Californiabiblio4.htm
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| | Clothing |
| | Sometimes a single item of clothing or a single accessory can declare one's occupation and/or status -- for example, the high toque or tartan; an Orthodox Jew his religion with his (non-clothing) sidelocks; a French peasant woman her village with her cap or coif. | | | For example, many Muslim women wear a head or body covering (hijab, bourqa or burka, chador, abaya) that proclaims their status as respectable women. | | | Marital status: Hindu women, once married, "wear" sindoor, a red powder, in the parting of their hair; if widowed, they abandon sindoor and jewelry and wear simple white clothing. |
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http://weblog.linkdoni.net/Shopping/clothing.htm
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| | Cultures and Ethnic Groups West of China |
| | The Soviet archaeologists have observed cultures of superlocal importance that are arranged in two zones north and south of the steppes belt, that is, in the forest zone and its marginal areas, as well as in the oasis regions of the south and southeast marginal of Middle Asia. | | | First, the Neolithic cultures of the steppes of Central Asia and Kazakhstan (Vinogradov and Mamedov 1975) do not give the impression of great radiation from their centers. | | | He stated in his concolusion that "some of those cultures are so close, chronologically and geographically, to the early Chinese dynasties that it is necessary to raise (and eventually resolve) the question of their mutual contacts and the possible influence of the Gansu centre of metal-making on the Shang-Yin civilisation. |
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http://www.silk-road.com/artl/westchina.shtml
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| | Native American Textiles and Clothing |
| | The pages also contain information about traditional and ancient cultures of the Quechua and Aymara peoples of the Peruvian and Bolivian mountains, the environment there, and Llamas -- mountai animal whose wool is used for cloth, and which carry light burdens for the mountain villagers. | | | San Andrés Earthlord Design--The Earthlord is a powerful spiritual being who controls the realm of the dead who have lived good lives and complete certain tasks after death. | | | These photos mostly reside elsewhere, on remote servers -- parts of various museum or gallery collections which you may explore. |
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http://www.kstrom.net/isk/art/art_clo.html
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| | Men's Clothing in Kievan Rus |
| | It is a long piece of cloth that hangs down the body of the monk, bearing images of the cross, the spear, the reed, often anagrams (i.e. | | | Coarse, homespun wool (sermyaga or seryachini) was used for peasant clothes and also for the undergarments and everyday clothes of the merchant classes, and even boyars. | | | The cloistered monks that you refer to seem to be monks who have been tonsured into the great schema (the highest level of monasticism in the Orthodox Church). |
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| | Digital History |
| | While many Americans are aware of the impressive cultures that thrived in Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala before Columbus's arrival--the Toltec, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Inca--far fewer are familiar with the magnificent ancient cultures to be found north of Mexico. | | | Far from being "primitive" forms of religion, Indian religions possessed great subtlety and sophistication, manifest in a rich ceremonial life, an intricate mythology, and profound speculations about the creation of the world, the origins of life, and the nature of the afterlife. | | | The Mississippians practiced a religion known as the Southern Ceremonial Complex. |
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/native_voices/nav1.html
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| | Local Cultures Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| | Still, the tribes managed to preserve many traditions by externally adopting the ways of the various paternalistic governments that occupied their native lands while secretly continuing to practice their own pantheistic religions and customs. | | | While el hidalguismo and the entitlement that came with it is today merely a vestige, the Catholic Church has survived intact. | | | Their abandoned cities of cliff dwellings, pit houses, underground ceremonial kivas and petroglyphs etched in rocks are silent testament to the richness and resourcefulness of their culture. |
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http://www.insiders.com/santafe/main-cultures2.htm
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| | EDSITEment - Lesson Plan |
| | Native American Cultures Across the U.S. The term 'Native American' includes over 500 different groups and reflects great diversity of geographic location, language, socioeconomic conditions, school experience, and retention of traditional spiritual and cultural practices. | | | This lesson helps dispel prevailing stereotypes and generalizing cultural representations of American Indians by providing culturally-specific information about the contemporary as well as historical cultures of distinct tribes and communities within the United States. | | | Have students create a book about their own families and cultural traditions and customs, including their lodging, clothing, food, and other aspects of everyday life, and relate their family activities and traditions to similar Native American customs. |
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| | Icons of the Matrix |
| | I call them “matrix cultures” because for many people “matriarchy” implies a mirror image of patriarchy’s relations of domination and subordination.(1) The social sense of “matrix” connotes other meanings: a life-support network within the maternal kindreds, which are cooperative and communal, and circles of exchange that reach beyond it. | | | In the 5th MBCE this gesture is seen in the stone women of the Ozieri culture in Sardinia, the Lady of Paszardjik in Bulgaria, the Vinca matrikas, and many other Balkan icons. | | | The Yakut people still make carvings of women holding a ceremonial choron in this manner; in their religion, it is women who preside over the great spring festival in which people gather in great circles to dance around chorons elevated on pillars. |
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| | ethnic clothing and regalia: native Americans |
| | Each clan or family had a body of tradition or ceremony, aspects of which were objectified in the form of crests carved upon totem poles or house fronts. | | | The men and women who take part in these exhibits dress in authentic clothing of the era they are portraying. | | | It's a disgrace to them for people to say that thier traditional clothing is 'costumes'. |
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| | Nudity in Ancient to Modern Cultures--Aileen Goodson |
| | Forcing clothing on those peoples whose cultures had previously permitted them to experience body freedom was not only demean ing and humiliating but an effective and constant reminder of their "inferior" heritage and status. | | | While many cultures have recognized the contributions of ancient Greece to law, politics, literature, art, and philosophy, not much has been recorded about early Greek advocacy of freedom from clothing when practical and appropriate. | | | Inexcusably, as civilization encroaches upon many of these out-of-the-way places, the aboriginal cultures are often severely damaged or destroyed by the invading virus of a technologically superior society. |
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| | Unit3-web.htm |
| | It is important that students learn more about the cultural conflicts between the first people of Wisconsin and European Americans in order to develop greater sensitivity to people from different cultures as well as an awareness of national policies designed to extinguish certain cultures. | | | Tribal members are working to improve their lives and recognize the importance of unity to their survival. | | | Traditional Indian dress, the original language, and traditional basket-making and silver smithing crafts were nearly lost in the late 1800s. |
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http://www.socialstudies.esmartweb.com/HTMLwihistoryunits/Unit3-web.htm
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| | Poway History/Social Science Standards |
| | Akhenaten’s religious reforms and emphasis on the Aten as the sole god as an early experiment with monotheism. | | | Early Christian beliefs including the Trinity, Resurrection, and Salvation. | | | The life and moral teachings of Buddha (e.g., the four noble truths, the eight-fold path, and the middle way) and how Buddhism spread in India, Ceylon, and Central Asia. |
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http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/pusdmvms/6thgrade/6HISTORY/PUSDSTANDS.htm
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| | The Traditional Korean Funeral |
| | It is important that as we evolve into a global society individual cultures fight hard to maintain their own unique identities and not lose touch with the past. | | | As soon as the women had completed the mourning clothes, the family gave a death feast which involved a five part ceremonial bow before the body of the deceased. | | | We were told to change to traditional funeral clothing which we could rent from the hospital. |
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http://bosp.kcc.hawaii.edu/Horizons/Horizons2002/Traditional_Korean.html
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| | World Cultures Lesson 2 |
| | Increase understanding of artworks/artifacts as a reflection of the culture in which they are created and used (AH, AC, Std. | | | This is the second lesson in our series on African culture as part of the larger unit on exploring world cultures. | | | Understand and appreciate the use of art elements and principles used by artmakers across time and cultures (AH, AC, Std. |
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http://www.artpartnersprogram.com/current/World_Cultures/Lesson_2_Crowns.htm
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| | SELECTED, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF |
| | Proceedings of the International Conference on the History of Alchemy at the University of Groningen. | | | Technical but fascinating account of the relations of popular religion and science in the 4th to 2nd centuries B.C. as based on recently excavated documents. | | | Useful mainly as documentation of the state of science and technology in 1977-1978, the first stage of the transition between the Cultural Revolution and the modernization of the 1980s. |
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| | Muslims in the West: Can Conflict Be Averted? - article by Daniel Pipes |
| | For Christians to accept Muslim newcomers and the two faiths to co-exist in harmony, requires overcoming a millennial tradition of mistrust and hostility. | | | Having their legacy presented in a positive and appealing manner before their non-Muslim peers creates a sense of joy: for once, they seem to feel, they are not portrayed as uncouth barbarians. | | | On the contrary, such measures would meet with the approval and applause from Muslims, especially if done in consultation with them and if the authorities make clear that their goal is not to oppose Islam but to combat an extremist ideology. |
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| | Peaktalk - Dutch Politics Archives |
| | Homophobia, anti-Semitism and religious and cultural intolerance have since their arrival in our country started a new life. | | | And there's one other aspect of her mission: staying alive. | | | Hirsi Ali's recommendations to the Labour policy unit were blunt and radical: close all 41 Islamic schools, put a brake on immigration and change article 23. |
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http://www.peaktalk.com/archives/cat_dutch_politics.php
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| | Shamash Book of the Month Archive |
| | She tells the story of a multilingual, multinational people, one that has experienced an often turbulent relationship with Hebrew (the liturgical and scriptural language) and Yiddish (the commonplace vernacular tongue), as well as with the numerous languages spoken by Jews around the world. | | | She was ordained as a rabbinic pastor and spiritual guide (mashpiah ruchanit) by Rabbi Zalman Schacher-Shalomi and is one of the spiritual leaders of her local Jewish Renewal community in Berkley, California. | | | Estelle Frankel is a practicing psychotherapist and a seasoned teacher of Jewish mysticism and mediation. |
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| | Sharing Our Pathways Volume 4, Issue 5 |
| | We can choose inaction and help our culture to die or we can take a proactive stance in a unified strategic manner through some of the efforts presented above. | | | For a more locally important reason, we share traditional knowledge when we believe it will lead to preserving the land, its resources or the Iñupiat way of life. | | | This is the method most commonly used by Iñupiat people to transfer knowledge with each other. |
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| | eCLAL: An Online journal of Religion, Public Life and Culture |
| | One is from Nigeria, a man who grew up among Muslims and says there is no clash of cultures. | | | In every culture war the existing customs and traditions of a society are called to the bar of reason and ruthlessly interrogated and cross-examined by an intellectual elite asking whether they can be rationally justified or are simply the products of superstition and thus unworthy of being taken seriously by enlightened men and women.... | | | The appropriation of biblical imagery within America's cultural consciousness is both a testimony to the tenacious inventiveness with which the gospel takes hold and a stumbling block to the self-criticism the gospel demands when it repeatedly calls a nation to repent. |
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| | Engin I. Erdem: The Clash of Civilizations: Revisited after September 11 |
| | Norris and Inglehart, 'surprisingly', have found that Muslims have no less democratic ideals than the West and 'the West is not distinctive to Islam in its faith in democracy'.(55) In this respect, their study has considerably falsified Huntington's assumption that Islam and the West have fundamentally different political values based upon predominant religious cultures. | | | This approach, however, closes the avenues for mutual understanding and dialogue as well as it leads to 'clash of misunderstandings'.(85) Moreover, Huntington has a selective perception in choosing cases in order to enforce his argument. | | | Second, he now maintains that 'the age of Muslim wars has roots in more general causes that do not include the inherent nature of Islamic doctrine or beliefs. |
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