The profuse material culture of handcrafted objects includes floats, costumes, head ornaments and animal masks.
When the Western Roman Empire collapsed in the Fifth Century the effect on material culture and technology in Europe was devastating.
Oiticica was not concerned with material culture so much as the ways that performance, playfulness and ritual define Brazil's visual landscape.
He has also endowed the Khalili Research Centre for the Arts and Material Culture of the Middle East at the University of Oxford, and is the co-founder and chairman of the Maimonides Foundation, which promotes peace and understanding between the three great monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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The 13 collections document Australian childhood culture spanning 140 years, with specialized material from the 1950s, 70s and 80s - possibly the largest collection of its kind in the world.
He laments a French culture where work is unvalued, effort unrewarded and material success deemed suspect.
Output of services includes services of transport, communications, trade, material supply housing, public utilities, culture, health care, bank service etc.
Concerns over national culture, identity and a way of life matter more than material worries.
The legal frameworks of the ethnic-racial issue in Brazil will be presented as well as the experiences with elaboration of pedagogical material about African and African-Brazilian History and Culture for teachers working in primary education.
Besides material support, which is obviously essential, art and culture can also help Haitians heal from and overcome the trauma they have suffered.
He understood how much the geek culture's acceptance by the mainstream had helped his own success as genre material had made the transformation from niche to widespread commercial viability.
The previous book examined the history of the postwar period, examining how mass affluence transformed American culture, making people more introspective and more focused on the achievement of non-material goals.
The approval of Culture Minister Linda Fabiani was required to designate the Australian Government and Te Papa Tongarewa as bodies to whom material from the collections could be transferred.
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