* The International Institute for Diasporic and Transcultural Studies ( IIDTS )-a transnational institute incorporating Jean Moulin University ( Lyons, France ), the University of Cyprus, Sun Yat-sen University ( Guangzhou, China ) and Liverpool Hope University ( UK )-is a dedicated research network operating in a transdisciplinary logic and focussed on cultural representation ( and auto-representation ) of diasporic communities throughout the world.

Aside from personal memoirs of coming to America, such as those by Loung Ung, a few books have been dedicated to studying the Khmer American population in the U. S., such as Khmer American: Identity and Moral Education in a Diasporic Community by Nancy J. Smith-Hefner.

#" When the West Is One: Undoing and Re-Doing the Hegemony of U. S. Culture in Diasporic Writing by Chinese American Women.

Diasporic Armenian communities emerged in the Sassanid and Persian empires, and also to defend eastern and northern borders of the Byzantine Empire.

Her book, Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada ( 2000 ), which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism, has just gone out of print, but is available on the TransCanada Institute's web site.

Diasporic Persian and Iranian blogs have also become a trend as a means to be part of an international online community.

* Insular interventions: Diasporic Puerto Rican Literature Bilanguaging Toward a Greater Puerto Rico ( on Luis Rafael Sánchez, Luis Palés Matos, Giannina Brashi ) by Maritza Stanchich, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2003.

# The Problematics of Kingston's ' Cultural Translation ': A Chinese Diasporic View of The Woman Warrior By: Liu, Toming Jun ; Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 1996 Fall ; 4: 15-30.

Mr. Bolker heads a group within the building and development industry to raise funds in support of this cultural center for the performing arts.

We must not permit our society to become a slave to the scientific age, as might well happen without the cultural and spiritual restraint that comes from the development of the human mind through wisdom absorbed from the written word.

" 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.

A long series of cultural development culminated in the expansion of the Inca civilization and Inca Empire in the central Andes during the 15th century.

Carnegie was a consistent borrower and a " self-made man " in both his economic development and his intellectual and cultural development.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

Since the turn of the millennium, Copenhagen has seen a strong urban and cultural development.

This includes a shared British cultural heritage, warfare during the 1770s and 1812, and the eventual development of one of the most stable and mutually-beneficial international relationships in the modern world.

Accordingly, most of these anthropologists showed less interest in comparing cultures, generalizing about human nature, or discovering universal laws of cultural development, than in understanding particular cultures in those cultures ' own terms.

Others, such as Claude Lévi-Strauss ( who was influenced both by American cultural anthropology and by French Durkheimian sociology ), have argued that apparently similar patterns of development reflect fundamental similarities in the structure of human thought ( see structuralism ).

Nathan's point, then, is that people come to college and don't expand their social horizons and cultural tolerance, which can prevent the development of your social community.

" Period " also suggests a linearity of development, whereas it has not been uncommon for two or more distinctive cultural approaches to be active at the same time.

Often, methods of promoting development and social justice to are critiqued as being imperialistic, in a cultural sense.

The time of the Fifth Dalai Lama was, however, also a period of rich cultural development.

It subsequently came to be used to refer to the historical movements of the dispersed ethnic population of Israel, to the cultural development of that population or to the population itself.

Evolutionary linguistics is a cover term for the scientific study of both the origins and development of language as well as the cultural evolution of languages.

An initial concept design called the City of Light Development, envisioned by Hisham N. Ashkouri, for the development and the implementation of a privately based investment enterprise has been proposed for a multi-function commercial, historic and cultural development within the limits of the Old City of Kabul, along the southern side of the Kabul River and along Jade Meywand Avenue.

In non-doctrinal matters the church had occasionally shared from local Greek, Slavic and Middle Eastern traditions, among others, in turn shaping the cultural development of these nations.

The shift to the peaceful development of Finnish society was facilitated by the outcome of World War I, the marked post-war economic progress and recovery, and by the pre-1918 cultural and national unity of the majority of the nation.

This caused more than 50 years of positive economic, industrial, cultural and educational development in the Grand Duchy of Finland.

* Allen J. Scott ( born 1938 ), winner of Vautrin Lud Prize in 2003 and the Anders Retzius Gold medal 2009 ; author of numerous books and papers on economic and urban geography, known for his work on regional development, new industrial spaces, agglomeration theory, global city-regions and the cultural economy.

They deliberately avoided social, economic, and cultural topics because they might undermine the national political development which their writing celebrated.

In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism.

In the successor states of continental Europe, on the other hand, anthropologists often joined with folklorists and linguists in building cultural perspectives on nationalism.

Throughout the interwar years, French interest in anthropology often dovetailed with wider cultural movements such as surrealism and primitivism, which drew on ethnography for inspiration.

Yet disgust can often be a learned or cultural issue too ; as Darwin pointed out, seeing a stripe of soup in a man's beard is disgusting even though neither soup nor beards are themselves disgusting.

This is a strong indicator of the often wildly divergent intentions and cultural differences between the native ayahuasca-using cultures and psychedelics enthusiasts in other countries.

Amok is often described as a culture-bound ( or culture-specific ) syndrome, which is a psychological condition whose manifestation is strongly shaped by cultural factors.

These actions were often bizarre actions that violated the cultural norms of the time ( e. g. Ezekiel 4: 4-8 ).

The Balkans ( turkish balkan = „ mountains or forrest mountains “), often referred to as the Balkan Peninsula, and recently also as " Southeast Europe ", although none of the three are coterminous, is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe.

These anthropologists continue to concern themselves with the distinct ways people in different locales experience and understand their lives, but they often argue that one cannot understand these particular ways of life solely from a local perspective ; they instead combine a focus on the local with an effort to grasp larger political, economic, and cultural frameworks that impact local lived realities.

Social and cultural factors, emotion, consciousness, animal cognition, comparative and evolutionary approaches are frequently de-emphasized or excluded outright, often based on key philosophical conflicts.

When cultural movements go through revolutions from one to the next, genres tend to get attacked and mixed up, and often new genres are generated and old ones fade.

These changes are often reactions against the prior cultural form, which typically has grown stale and repetitive.

One of the reasons often given for opposing any form of cultural imperialism, voluntary or otherwise, is the preservation of cultural diversity, a goal seen by some as analogous to the preservation of ecological diversity.

Neoliberalism is often critiqued by sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars as being culturally imperialistic.

To summarize, every established national group used cultural productions to assert and strengthen a sense of national unity and destiny ; less politically consolidated groups, especially those pursuing the goal of nationhood, used them in the same ways, though often with a note of determination that makes them easier to see from our contemporary point of reference.

Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and social exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution.

It is frequently not investigated in psychotherapy because it is ego-syntonic, parallels cultural attitudes, and because therapists often share similar bias or neurotic conflict.

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

Advocating a more culturally sensitive approach to psychology, critics such as Carl Bell and Marcello Maviglia contend that the cultural and ethnic diversity of individuals is often discounted by researchers and service providers.

The last vestiges of cultural affiliation in a diaspora is often found in community resistance to language change and in maintenance of traditional religious practice.

The concept is one of the lasting legacies of the Carolingian Renaissance: " Europa " often figures in the letters of Charlemagne's cultural minister, Alcuin.

Ecuadorians often describe the country as a series of " micro-environments " and economic-cultural regions that are reflected in the country's cultural and geographic diversity of coastal fishing and trade ( with Guayaquil as a port ), highland Quichua-speaking peoples ( with Quito as a center, and the Amazon or jungle region, with several indigenous populations continually facing intrusions by " colonos " ( colonists ) seeking to use land for farming including palm oil, or for oil and resource exploitation.

Males, the dominate cultural group in North America and Europe, often dominated the electorate and continue to do so in many countries.