Nevertheless, the native animist beliefs were never completely extinguished, and traditional practices have enjoyed a resurgence since 1945, such as the Bwiti religion and, as has a flowering of new styles of music and dance, such as the Bikutsi of the Ewondos.

Bikutsi has always been known to push boundaries with its lyrics, and K-Tino is a modern day master of the genre.

Bikutsi is based on a war rhythm played with various rattles, drums and balafon.

Bikutsi is based on a war rhythm played with various rattles and drums and xylophone.

Bikutsi is characterized by an intense 6 / 8 rhythm, and is played at all sorts of Beti gatherings, including parties, funerals and weddings.

Bikutsi is a musical genre from Cameroon.

Bikutsi is characterized by an intense 6 / 8 rhythm, though it is occasionally 9 / 8 and its tempo is usually quarternote.

Bikutsi music is characterized by an up-tempo 6 / 8 rhythm, danced with energetic pulsations of shoulders and / or pelvis.

She is undoubtedly one of the most consistent and exciting performers in modern Bikutsi.

But the Cunard line, influenced by unpleasant economic facts and not sentiment, has decided to keep the Queen Mary in service until next Spring at least.

Designers of signs and displays have shown a refreshing approach to the adaptation of plastics that has influenced the workings of other industries.

Modern Algerian literature, split between Arabic, Kabyle and French, has been strongly influenced by the country's recent history.

Algerian culture has been strongly influenced by Islam, the main religion.

Anthropologists study topics including Homo sapiens origin and evolution, the organization of human social and cultural relations, human physical traits, how humans behave, the variations among different groups of humans, how the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens has influenced its social organization and culture, and so forth.

Sociocultural anthropology has been heavily influenced by structuralist and postmodern theories, as well as a shift toward the analysis of modern societies.

Several of the dialects have been influenced by contact with non-Germanic linguistic groups, such as the dialect of Carinthia, where in the past many speakers were bilingual with Slovene, and the dialect of Vienna, which has been influenced by immigration during the Austro-Hungarian period, particularly from what is today the Czech Republic.

It has dominated French social history and influenced historiography in Europe and Latin America.

It has been noted that Ambrose's theology was significantly influenced by that of Origen and Didymus the Blind, two other early Christian universalists.

Alberta's historical development has been largely influenced by the development of new transportation infrastructure, ( see " trends " below ).

Since then, American English has been influenced by the languages of West Africa, the Native American population, Spanish, and immigration.

This alphabet has influenced development of orthographies of many African languages ( serving " as the basis for the transcription " of about 60, by one count ), but not all, and discussions of harmonization of systems of transcription that led to, among other things, adoption of the African reference alphabet.

Since the demise of Commodore, various groups have marketed successors to the original Amiga line, including Genesi, Eyetech, ACube Systems and A-EON Technology, and AmigaOS has influenced replacements, clones and compatible systems such as MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS.

Grothendieck ’ s way of thinking has influenced generations of mathematicians long after his departure from mathematics.

Along with tarot divination, astrology is one of the core studies of Western esotericism, and as such has influenced systems of magical belief not only among Western esotericists and Hermeticists, but also belief systems such as Wicca that have borrowed from or been influenced by the Western esoteric tradition.

Tibetan astrology also shares many of these components but has also been strongly influenced by Chinese culture and acknowledges a circle of animal signs similar to that of the Chinese zodiac ( see below ).

Indian politics has also been influenced by astrology.

The fact that judgments of beauty and judgments of truth both are influenced by processing fluency, which is the ease with which information can be processed, has been presented as an explanation for why beauty is sometimes equated with truth.

The cuisine of the American South has been influenced by the many diverse inhabitants of the region, including Americans of European descent, Native Americans and African Americans.

Argentine cuisine is heavily influenced by its European roots and has regional variations.

Since 1988, Brazilian administrative law has been strongly influenced by the judicial interpretations of the constitutional principles of public administration ( art.

Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

And he has proclaimed greater or less affiliation between all Western hemisphere languages.

`` La Dolce Vita '' has none of the senseless brutality or sadism of the average TV Western.

Nevertheless, Montgomery has stated courageously and wisely the crisis of the Western world.

A common criticism has been that many social science scholars ( such as economists, sociologists, and psychologists ) in Western countries focus disproportionately on Western subjects, while anthropology focuses disproportionately on the " other "; this has changed over the last part of the twentieth century as anthropologists increasingly, also study Western subjects, particularly variation across class, region, or ethnicity within Western societies, and other social scientists increasingly take a global view of their fields.

Anthropology as it emerged amongst the Western colonial powers ( mentioned above ) has generally taken a different path than that in the countries of southern and central Europe ( Italy, Greece, and the successors to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ).

In Western countries, a bead frame similar to the Russian abacus but with straight wires and a vertical frame has been common ( see image ).

Since then, it has focused on improving relationships with Western countries, cultivating links with other Portuguese-speaking countries, and asserting its own national interests in Central Africa through military and diplomatic intervention.

* 392 – Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor.

The development of antibacterial-resistant bacteria has sparked renewed interest in phage therapy in Western medicine.

A second temple has also been located at the archaeological site of Metropolis in what is now Western Turkey.

Within the later tradition of Western Civilization and classical revival the Acropolis, from at least the mid-18th century on, has often been invoked as a key symbol of the Greek legacy and of the glories of Classical Greece.