The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Writers such as Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, in The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World ( 2000 ), Fredrick Turner in A Culture of Hope and Lester Brown in Plan B, have articulated a critique of the basic idea of modernism itself – that individual creative expression should conform to the realities of technology.

The city of Kraków was one of the European Cities of Culture in 2000.

* Hibbs, Thomas S. ( 2000 ), Shows About Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from The Exorcist to Seinfeld, Dallas, TX: Spence Publishing Company.

* ---, On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture ( Atlanta: Scholars Press of American Academy of Religion, 1997 ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 ; ISBN 0-7885-0295-6, cloth, ISBN 0-7885-0296-4, pbk ).

Smoking, Culture and Economy in the Middle East: The Egyptian Tobacco Market 1850 – 2000.

* NoBrow: The Culture of Marketing – the Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook ( 2000 )

* 26 July 2000: Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee publishes adverse report on Dome's management

* Magliola, Robert, On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, Culture, Atlanta: Scholars P, American Academy of Religion, 1997 ; Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000 ( ISBN 0-7885-0296-4 ).

* Commandeur de L ' Ordre des Arts et Lettres, Republique Française, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication ; 2000

A subsequent Culture novel Look to Windward ( 2000 ), whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem, can be considered a loose follow-up.

In the 1990s, he combined his two research strands in The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, published as a trilogy, The Rise of the Network Society ( 1996 ), The Power of Identity ( 1997 ), and End of Millennium ( 1998 ); two years later, its worldwide, favourable critical acceptance in university seminars, prompted publication of a second ( 2000 ) edition that is 40 per cent different from the first ( 1996 ) edition.

Mérida served as the American Capital of Culture in the year 2000.

Buchloh, in the collection of essays Neo-avantgarde and Culture Industry ( 2000 ) critically argues for a dialectical approach to these positions.

* " Destroy 2000 Years of Culture " ( Interdord 1997 )

** Joseph Tsang Mang Kin 曾繁興 / 曾繁兴 ( 1938 -; Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Mauritius ), Minister of Art and Culture, 1995 – 2000

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture, the most significant businesses in 2000 were: Webco Industries, Sheffield Steel Corporation, Rader Diagnostic Center, Smith-Fibercast, Cust-O-Fab, Piping Companies Incorporated, and Baker Petrolite.

Afterward, the band co-headlined with Culture Club and Howard Jones on VH1's 1980s " Big Rewind " nostalgia tour and made other concert and public appearances throughout 1997 – 2000.

* Sorin Antohi, " Commuting to Castalia: Noica's ' School ', Culture and Power in Communist Romania ", preface to Gabriel Liiceanu, The Păltiniş Diary: A Paideic Model in Humanist Culture, Central European University Press, Budapest, 2000, p. vii – xxiv.

* Allen, James P., Middle Egyptian-An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, first edition, Cambridge University Press, 2000.

More than two dozen independent theatrical and musical productions have been based on Einstein's Dreams, including a production at Chicago's National Pastime Theater in 2000, produced and directed by Patrizia Acerra and Dawn Arnold ; a production at Paradise Theater in New York in 2001, produced and directed by Paul Stancato and Brian Rhinehart ; a production at the Culture Project Theater in New York in 2003, directed by Rebecca Holderness ; a production at the People's Branch Theater in Nashville in 2003, adapted by Brian Niece and David Alford, directed by David Alford ; a musical production at the Martin Segal Theater of CUNY in New York in 2003, produced by Brian Schwartz with music and lyrics by Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Lessner ; a production by the Underground Railway Theater in Boston in 2006 ; and a production by the University of Memphis in 2006, under the direction of Gloria Baxter ; a musical composition titled " In This World " by Paul Hoffman in 2000 and performed by the Silverwood Trio on their own CD ; and a musical composition titled " When Einstein Dreams " by Nando Michelin in 2003 and performed by the Nando Michelin Group on a Double Times Record CD.

* Weinstein, D., Heavy Metal: The Music and Its Culture ( Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2000 ), ISBN 0-306-80970-2.

Yun Kuen Lee's criticism of nationalist sentiment in developing an explanation of Three Dynasties chronology focuses on the dichotomy of evidence provided by archaeological versus historical research, in particular the claim that the archaeological Erlitou Culture is also the historical Xia Dynasty.

In addition, beginning in 2013, RNW's budget will be provided by the Dutch Foreign Ministry rather than the Education and Culture Ministry

Unlike most other police forces operating in England and Wales, the Royal Parks Constabulary did not report to the Home Office, but instead to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, who provided funding for it through the Royal Parks Agency.

The inscription dedicated to Kul Tigin includes the passages ( in the translation provided by the Language Committee of Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan ): " When the blue sky above and the brown earth below were created, between them a human being was created.

According to court testimony provided by the perpetrators later, they planned to use the chemical substance to kidnap Sakamoto from Yokohama's Shinkansen train station, but, contrary to expectations, he did not show up — it was a holiday ( Bunka no hi, or " Culture Day "), so he slept in with his family, at home.

**** Culture Programs Unit-coordinated and managed all ministry programs and grants for the full range of stakeholder organizations, provided cultural sector partners with one-window customer service.

**** Culture Services Unit-developed and coordinated guidelines and tools for service delivery, provided advice and interpretation of relevant legislation and conducted stakeholder education, training and outreach on key cultural initiatives.

An important discussion of Darwin's response to Bell's neurological theories is provided by Lucy Hartley in her Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth Century Culture ( 2001 ).

The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure provided £ 4. 5million ; the Arts Council of Northern Ireland £ 1. 45million ; the Heritage Lottery Fund £ 447, 000 ; and the then Environment and Heritage Service £ 525, 900.

Evidence to support this view is provided by David Matz in the Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture concerning a joint statement.

This was particularly significant given the Capital of Culture status of Cork, which provided a platform for culture to reach beyond its traditional interest groups.

As Minister, he has sponsored a program called Culture Points, which gives grants to provide music technology and education to people living in poor areas of the country's cities.

The NDL has transferred the following collections to the Kansai-kan: most western peridocals ; books and other materials in non-Japanese Asian languages ; certain scientific and technological materials ( technical reports, papers of foreign academic societies, catalogs of Japanese and foreign technical standards, foreign doctoral dissertations, and conference proceedings in Western languages ); scientific research reports compiled under grants from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology ; Japanese doctoral dissertations ; and books on tape.

Funding was proposed to come from selling the residential and commercial properties and grants from NFF and the Ministry of Culture.

It is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport: disbursing Government funding and acting as the statutory distributor of National Lottery grants.

The EU awards grants to cultural projects ( 233 in 2004 ) and has launched a web portal dedicated to Europe and Culture, responding to the European Council's expressed desire to see the Commission and the member states " promote the networking of cultural information to enable all citizens to access European cultural content by advanced technological means.

In addition to receiving grants of support from national agencies such as the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, Callaloo has garnered a number of national honors, including the best special issue of a journal from the Council of Editors for Learned Journals for " The Haitian Issues " in 1992 ( Volume 15. 2 & 3: Haiti: the Literature and Culture Parts I & II ); honorable mention for the " Best Special Issue of a Journal " in 2001 from the Professional / Scholarly Publishing ( PSP ) Division of the American Association ( Volume 24. 1: The Confederate Flag Controversy: A Special Section ); and recognition for the Winter 2002 issue from the Council of Editors for Learned Journals as one of the best special issues of that year ( Volume 25. 1: Jazz Poetics ).

* Culture and cultural studies

In Culture and Imperialism, the sequel to Orientalism, Said argues that while the formal " age of empire " ended after World War II, imperialism has left a cultural legacy in the previously-colonized civilizations that remains today.

The annual cultural festival ( or culfest ) of Jadavpur University is called " Sanskriti ", which in Bengali or Hindi means Culture.

Drawing on Lawrence Lessig ’ s Free Culture ( published in 2002 ), the free culture movement promoted the distribution of cultural works under similar terms to those free software is distributed under.

Therefore, the ministry sponsored cultural workshops throughout the country until October 1988 when the Ministry of Culture was integrated into the Ministry of Education because of financial troubles.

* London Uyghur Ensemble Uyghur Culture and History ; multimedia site-links to cultural and historical background, current news, research materials and photographs.

* Introduction to Uyghur Culture and History Links to cultural and historical background, current news, research materials and photographs.

Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong and ( other ) countries are linked to Culture of China | Chinese cultural and political history.

The cultural critic Mark Dery has theorized the postmodern archetype of the evil clown in " Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns " ( a chapter in his cultural critique The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink ).

The first use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary was by philosopher and social theorist Alain Locke in 1924 to describe Robert Lowie's " extreme cultural relativism ", found in the latter's 1917 book Culture and Ethnology.

Yakutia also fosters close cultural, political, economic and industrial relations with the independent Turkic states through membership in organizations such as the Turkic Council and the Joint Administration of Turkic Arts and Culture.

" Culture " for a cultural studies researcher, not only includes traditional high culture ( the culture of ruling social groups ) and popular culture, but also everyday meanings and practices.

* University of Virginia Web site " Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive "— edited by Stephen Railton, covers 1830 to 1930, offering links to primary and bibliographic sources on the cultural background, various editions, and public reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel.

On August 22 2012, the Popol Vuh was declared intangible cultural heritage of Guatemala by the Guatemalan Ministry of Culture.

This school, and the building, closed completely in 1978, then reopened as a museum and cultural center in 1994, administered jointly by UNAM, the National Council for Culture and Arts and the government of the Federal District of Mexico City.

The next major period in Japanese history was the Muromachi Period, pointing to the rise of, centered around the gorgeous cultural world of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and his villa in the northern hills of Kyoto ( Kinkaku-ji ), and later during this period, the rise of Higashiyama Culture, centered around the elegant cultural world of Ashikaga Yoshimasa and his retirement villa in the eastern hills of Kyoto ( Ginkaku-ji ).

Just over a month before the announcement, Margaret Hodge, a Minister of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport suggested " that the Proms was one of several big cultural events that many people did not feel comfortable attending " and advocated an increase in multicultural works and an effort to broaden the audience.

France has many cities of cultural interest, some of them are classified as " Town of Art and History " by the French Ministry of Culture.

Some had already anticipated the theory's emergence, with the social anthropologist Edmund Leach informing the assembled archaeologists at a 1971 discussion on the topic of " The Explanation of Culture Change " held at the University of Sheffield that cultural structuralism, which was then popular amongst social anthropologists, would soon make its way into the archaeological community.

* April 18 – An article entitled " The Fight Against Formalism in Art and Literature, for a Progressive German Culture " appeared in the Tägliche Rundschau, official daily of the Soviet Government in Germany, promulgating the new cultural policy of the DDR.

Culture theory is the branch of comparative anthropology and semiotics ( not to be confused with cultural sociology or cultural studies ) that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and / or scientific terms.

The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong European dimension.