" However, as Stocking notes, Tylor mainly concerned himself with describing and mapping the distribution of particular elements of culture, rather than with the larger function, and he generally seemed to assume a Victorian idea of progress rather than the idea of non-directional, multilineal cultural development proposed by later anthropologists.

These negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends.

The myth had a decided influence on English Victorian homoerotic culture, via André Gide's study of the myth, Traite du Narcisse (' The Treatise of the Narcissus ', 1891 ), and the only novel by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology, or futuristic innovations as Victorians might have envisioned them, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art.

Extremely witty, he is seen as a critique of Victorian culture at the end of the century, espousing a view of indulgent hedonism.

At the same time a group of professors at Yale and New Haven Congregationalist ministers articulated a conservative response to the changes brought about by the Victorian culture.

* The Victorian era and its culture largely thrived from 1860 until 1901.

The Victorian ethic is also amongst the reasons that geophagy became stigmatized in American culture.

An ability to control appetite coupled with eating seldom was the appropriate measure of behaviour in a " civilized " Victorian culture, so acting upon a craving for dirt was considered uncivilized because it was seen as having a lack of self-control.

This large concentration of wealth made for a large amount of culture, much of which still exists and is also evidenced in the varied architecture of the city and its Victorian neighborhoods.

The series explores Victorian art and culture.

While Haggard does indeed portray some Africans ( such as Twala and Gagool ) in their traditional ( for Victorian literature ) literary posts as barbarians, he also presents the other side of the coin, showing some black Africans as heroes and heroines ( such as Ignosi ), and shows respect for their culture.

He was furthermore a man whose tastes and interests were, according to the prevailing standards of Victorian era Anglo-American culture, rather feminine, and who was shadowed by the cloud of prejudice that then and later accompanied suspicions of his homosexuality.

* Cody, D. ( 1987 ) Corn Laws, The Victorian Web: literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria, webpage accessed 16 September 2007

Perhaps one of the novel's greatest strengths is that it contains hundreds of references to the popular and educated culture of the time and thus gives a better idea than most contemporary novels of what it was like to live in England then — almost a miniature education in Victorian life.

Victorian fashion comprises the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and grew in province throughout the Victorian era and the reign of Queen Victoria, a period which would last from June 1837 to January 1901.

Yet Greek culture and Greek design motifs continued to exert a powerful hold on late Victorian imagination and beyond.

* A companion to Victorian literature & culture

Recent biography sets him in the context of Victorian intellectual culture.

Like William Ernest Henley's " Invictus ", it is a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism and the " stiff upper lip " that popular culture has made into a traditional British virtue.

Pirsig states that until the end of the Victorian era, social patterns dominated the conduct of members of the American culture.

Its current prominence in Tennyson's oeuvre is the result of two trends, according to Tennyson scholar Matthew Rowlinson: the rise of formal English poetry studies in the late nineteenth century, and the Victorian effort to articulate a British culture that could be exported.

Victorian literature and culture series.

These wonders are important achievements of society, science, culture and defense, ranging from the Pyramids and the Great Wall in the Ancient age, to Copernicus ' Observatory and Magellan's Expedition in the middle period, up to the Apollo program, the United Nations, and the Manhattan Project in the modern era.

This track features an Indian sample from a cult Bollywood era making the track popular on the bhangra and desi scene and with much of British Asian urban culture.

The quartermaster was considered ' second in command ' to the captain in pirate culture of this era.

Although Baltic Germans at large regarded the future of Estonians as being a fusion with themselves, the Estophile educated class admired the ancient culture of the Estonians and their era of freedom before the conquests by Danes and Germans in the 13th century.

His analyses of art, cinema, youth culture, economics, and power formations, develop concepts such as " micropolitics ," " schizoanalysis ," and " becoming-woman ," which aim to liberate subjectivity and open up new horizons for political and creative resistance to the standardizing and homogenizing processes of global capitalism ( which he calls " Integrated World Capitalism ") in the " postmedia era.

Hal Ashby, the film's director, shared certain ideals with the era ’ s youth culture, and in this film he contrasts the doomed outlook of the alienated youth of the time with the hard-won optimism of those who endured the horrors of the early 20th century, contrasting nihilism with purpose.

Al-Andalus coincided with La Convivencia, an era of relative religious tolerance, and with the Golden age of Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula.

As a mathematician, Galileo's role in the university culture of his era was subordinated to the three major topics of study: law, medicine, and theology ( which was closely allied to philosophy ).

The approach to the building of socialism, however, varied over different periods in Soviet history, from the mixed economy and diverse society and culture of the 1920s to the command economy and repressions of the Joseph Stalin era to the " era of stagnation " in the 1980s.

In Justinian's era, and partly under his patronage, Byzantine culture produced noteworthy historians, including Procopius and Agathias, and poets such as Paul the Silentiary and Romanus the Melodist flourished during his reign.

In the 1970s, film culture and the changing demographics of filmgoers placed greater emphasis on gritty realism, while the pure entertainment and theatricality of classical era Hollywood musicals was seen as old-fashioned.

Laminar microliths date from at least the Gravettian culture or possibly the start of the Upper Paleolithic era, and they are found all through the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras.

The post-war motels, especially in the early 1950s to late 1960s, sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching colorful neon signs which employed themes from popular culture, ranging from Western imagery of cowboys and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic era iconography.

* Merriam-Webster: Either " of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one ", or " of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms ( as in architecture ) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity ( as in literature )", or, finally " of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language ".

The postmodern era is positioned to synthesize at a higher level — the level of experience, where the being of things and the activity of the finite knower compenetrate one another and provide the materials whence can be derived knowledge of nature and knowledge of culture in their full symbiosis — the achievements of the ancients and the moderns in a way that gives full credit to the preoccupations of both.

At the beginning of the 20th century there was a general belief that culture, politics and history were entering a new era — that the new century would also be a new era in human experience.

No written record has remained from the era before the Persian Empire, but in the oral history and culture, the Iranians have called the southern waters: " Jam Sea ", " Iran Sea ", and " Pars Sea ".

The expansion of Tai people and culture southwards also happened during the classical era.

In the United States, " the Sixties ", as they are known in popular culture, is a term used by historians, journalists, and other objective academics ; in some cases nostalgically to describe the counterculture and social revolution near the end of the decade ; and pejoratively to describe the era as one of irresponsible excess and flamboyance.

Some commentators have seen in this era a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom, broke free of the social constraints of the previous age through extreme deviation from the norm.