Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans, collecting data about the impact of global economic and political processes on local cultural realities.

The Gang of Four were arrested and blamed for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of a turbulent political era in China.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

Inheriting a country fraught with social and institutional woes resulting from the Cultural Revolution and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng became the core of the " second generation " of Chinese leadership.

Cultural dependency robs one of faith and identity and thus destroys Islam and the Islamic community ( ummah ) far more effectively than political rule.

In the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) since 1967, the terms Ultra-Left and left communist refers to political theory and practice self-defined as further " left " than that of the central Maoist leaders at the height of the GPCR (" Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ").

Media bias is studied at schools of journalism, university departments ( including Media studies, Cultural studies and Peace studies ) and by independent watchdog groups from various parts of the political spectrum.

Nationwide political campaigns led by Mao, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are often considered catastrophic failures ; and his rule is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people.

Some Chinese look back to the Cultural Revolution and fear chaos if the Communist Party should lose control due to domestic upheavals and so a robust system of monitoring and control is in place to counter the growing pressure for political change.

Cultural critic Karl Kraus, with his brilliantly controversial magazine Die Fackel, advanced the field of satirical journalism, becoming the literary and political conscience of this era.

* Cultural Revolution in China ( 1966 – 1976 ) – a period of widespread social and political upheaval in the People's Republic of China which was launched by Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Communist Party of China.

Although Mao himself officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, the power struggles and political instability between 1969 and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976 are now also widely regarded as part of the Revolution.

Cultural differences and political rivalry created tensions between the two churches, leading to disagreement over doctrine and ecclesiology and ultimately to schism.

Separate political struggles ensued among central government officials and local party cadres, who seized the Cultural Revolution as an opportunity to accuse rivals of " counter-revolutionary activity.

The event caught the party leadership off guard: that Lin – already enshrined into the Party Constitution as Mao's " closest comrade-in-arms " and " successor " – could betray Mao de-legitimized a vast body of Cultural Revolution political rhetoric.

Reminiscent of the first years of the Cultural Revolution, the political battle was carried out through historical allegory, and although Zhou Enlai's name was never mentioned during this campaign, the Premier's historical namesake, the Duke of Zhou, was a frequent target.

Hua spearheaded what became known as the Two Whatevers, namely, “ Whatever policy originated from Chairman Mao, we must continue to support ,” and “ Whatever directions were given to us from Chairman Mao, we must continue to follow .” Like Deng, Hua wanted to reverse the damage of the Cultural Revolution ; but unlike Deng, who wanted to propose new economic models for China, Hua intended to move the Chinese economic and political system towards Soviet-style planning of the early 1950s.

According to Shaorong Huang, the fact that the Cultural Revolution had such massive effects on Chinese society is the result of extensive use of political slogans.

Zhao Ziyang, who was sympathetic to the protestors, later accused his political opponents of illegally removing him from office by using " Cultural Revolution-style " tactics, including " reversing black and white, exaggerating personal offenses, taking quotes out of context, issuing slander and lies ... innundating the newspapers with critical articles making me out to be an enemy, and casual disregard for my personal freedoms.

According to Shen, the trigger for the famous Tiananmen hunger-strikes of 1989 was a big-character poster ( dazibao ), a form of public political discussion that gained prominence during the Cultural Revolution.

The move to have Mao's image publicly protected is correlated with the recent political career of Bo Xilai, whose term as party chief in Chongqing has been characterized by the use of Maoist propaganda not popular in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution.

Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.

# Cultural characteristics and differences are less mutable and hence less easily compromised and resolved than political and economic ones.

Cultural influences from all points of the compass are visible in the Finnish archeological finds from the very first settlements onwards.

Cultural influences left from Spanish colonization of the South and Southwest remain not only in the names of places but also in some ingredients in cooking, provided they grow in these regions ; these influences are strongly reinforced today by their proximity to northern Mexican states like Sonora, Baja California, and Chihuahua.

Cultural influences such as Christmas creep may have led to the winter season being perceived as beginning earlier in recent years, although high latitude countries like Canada are usually well into their real winters before the December solstice.

This emerges in the writings of early British Cultural Studies scholars and their influences, ( see the work of, for example, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Paul Willis, and Paul Gilroy ).

Cultural influences, besides Buddhism, included the Mon outposts later assimilated into the kingdom and the Khmer.

: For an almost exact copy of this section, see Ten Thousand ( Greek )# Cultural influences

The Cultural revolution, which sought to remove perceived " bourgeois " influences and attitudes, caused large negative effects and disruptions.

Cultural influences on Ubaid culture: Samarran Farmers from the North, trans-Arabian bifacial indigenous hunter-gatherers, and circum Arabian nomadic pastoral complex

He was chosen as the Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance under Mohammad Ali Rajai's prime ministry in March 1981, and continued efforts to purge Iranian universities of secular influences, in what became known as the Islamic Cultural Revolution.

Cultural interactions patronized often by powerful emperors, such as Kanishka, led to development of art due to introduction of a rich variety of influences.

Velas ' Semana Cultural ( Culture Week ) is also another festivity that mixes local traditions and cultural influences from abroad.

Traditional Chinese arts have also re-emerged from the Cultural Revolution, but their developments have been hampered by the Chinese society's ready acceptance of outside cultural influences, particularly the popular culture of Hong Kong, which has a huge following inside the PRC.

Cultural capital is not transmissible instantaneously like a gift or bequest ; rather, it is acquired over time as it impresses itself upon one's habitus ( character and way of thinking ), which in turn becomes more attentive to or primed to receive similar influences.

Whereas other theories of risk perception stress economic and cognitive influences, Cultural Theory asserts that structures of social organization endow individuals with perceptions that reinforce those structures in competition against alternative ones.

* Cultural capital, the advantage individuals can gain from mastering the cultural tastes of a privileged group

According to a decision by The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany of September 21, 2001, in the version from May 15, 2008, this also applies to PhDs that were awarded in Australia, Israel, Japan, or Canada.

This is material from Alan Lomax ’ s independent archive, begun in 1946, which has been digitized and offered by the Association for Cultural Equity.

The right to food is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ( ICESCR ), recognizing the " right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food ", as well as the " fundamental right to be free from hunger ".

* Thompson, Andrew, 1998, ' George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998, ISBN 0-312-17651-1.

Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present.

* The Indian Ocean in World History: Educational Website Interactive resource from the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center

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Cultural separatism exemplifies one practice in which one can expect a higher rate of meme-replication — because the meme for separation creates a barrier from exposure to competing ideas.

Cultural patterns there were different from, say, Mt.

It has helped to sponsor popular traveling exhibits, such as an early 2010s " King Tut " exhibit featuring magnificent artifacts from the tomb of the young Egyptian Pharaoh ; " The Cultural Treasures of Afghanistan " which opened in May 2008 and traveled to other cities for 18 months ; and an exhibition of China's Terracotta Warriors in its Washington headquarters in 2009 – 10.

Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies ( OANA ) is an association of news agencies from UNESCO ( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ) member states in the Asia-Pacific region.

Cultural barriers can also keep a person from telling someone they are in pain.

Cultural and religious pluralism has a long history and development that reaches from antiquity to contemporary trends in post-modernity.

Iraq created one of the most modernized public-health systems in the Middle East, earning Saddam an award from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ).

In 2000, the centre of Tirana from the central campus of Tirana University up to Skanderbeg Square was declared the place of Cultural Assembly, and given state protection.

The " borrowing " of religious rituals from other faith traditions by Unitarian Universalists was discussed at the UU General Assembly in 2001 during a seminar titled Cultural Appropriation: Reckless Borrowing or Appropriate Cultural Sharing by the Religious Education Dept, UUA.