Authors such as David Schneider, Clifford Geertz, and Marshall Sahlins developed a more fleshed-out concept of culture as a web of meaning or signification, which proved very popular within and beyond the discipline.

Category: Ludwig van Beethoven in popular culture

A key text is Jeff Nuttall's book Bomb Culture ( 1968 ), which traced this pervasive theme in popular culture back to Hiroshima.

Cornelius Holtorf, an academic archaeologist, describes an archaeologist as a detective as one of the key themes of archaeology in popular culture.

The large amount of travel done by Christie and Mallowan has not only made for a great writing theme, as shown in her famous novel: The Murder on the Orient Express, but also tied into the idea of archaeology as an adventure that has become so important in today ’ s popular culture as described by Cornelius Holtorf in his book Archaeology is a Brand.

A number of theories have been proposed to explain the two figures, and there are occasional references to them in popular culture.

American chefs have been influential both in the food industry and in popular culture.

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet, " King of the Wild Frontier ".

The Thirteen Colonies of the original United States were all former English possessions, and Anglo culture became a major foundation for American folk and popular music.

The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

These rumors then made their way into popular culture.

In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.

No Logo, the book by the Canadian journalist Naomi Klein who criticized the production practices of multinational corporations and the omnipresence of brand-driven marketing in popular culture, has become " manifesto " of the movement, presenting in a simple way themes more accurately developed in other works.

* Abaddon in popular culture

* Egyptian mythology in popular culture

Birds figure prominently in all aspects of human culture from religion to poetry to popular music.

A controversial figure, Thackeray has attracted significant attention by making statements expressing admiration for Hitler as an artist and demagogue, while condemning the Holocaust, inciting violence against Muslims, expressing support for the LTTE, and taking strong stances on the aspects of popular culture, including fervent opposition to the celebration of Valentine's Day.

As Bigfoot has become better known and a phenomenon in popular culture, sightings have spread throughout North America.

* Bigfoot in popular culture

Occasionally both names for the same battle entered the popular culture, such as the battle of Antietam, which is also referred to as the battle of Sharpsburg.

* Irish mythology in popular culture

Dream-eating, tapir-shaped baku have also entered non-Japanese popular culture.

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

As she continued to promote " Just Say No ", she appeared in an episode of the popular 1980s sitcom Diff ' rent Strokes and in a 1985 rock music video, " Stop the Madness ".

The British director had no feature film experience, but had directed several episodes of Star Trek, including the popular Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise " and the Deep Space Nine double-length pilot episode " Emissary ".

A popular Cardassian board game is Kotra, which, as Garak describes it, favors bold tactical maneuvers over defensive play ; hence Garak's criticism of Nog's attempts to regroup his pieces during a game they played in the episode " Empok Nor ".

The experiment presented the opportunity to steal money, donate to charity, or neither, and tested whether the rate of each choice was influenced by watching similar actions in the ending of a specially crafted episode of the popular series Medical Center.

The episode received popular response and became the television series The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors.

This was the first time that a major television network successfully scheduled Super Bowl counterprogramming: Fox aired a special live football-themed episode of its popular sketch comedy show In Living Color during the halftime show.

The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single " Price to Play ", and " So Far Away " ( which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart, and was featured on an episode of Smallville ); in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100 —" How About You " and " Zoe Jane "— but " How About You " was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio.

References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled " The Man from My Uncle ", References in other televison shows have continued over the years, including a 2011 episode of Mad Men, " The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ".

The custom had become firmly established in popular culture by 1952, when Walt Disney portrayed it in the cartoon Trick or Treat, and Ozzie and Harriet were besieged by trick-or-treaters on an episode of their television show.

* Arena ( TV series ) ( 1981 ) The program's episode, " Chelsea Hotel " was featured on the popular BBC arts documentary series.

Big Idea's popular VeggieTales episode was called " Dave and the Giant Pickle ", where Phil Vischer voiced Goliath.

In May 1973, the railway was the scene of filming of the episode The Royal Train of the popular TV programme Dad's Army.

That year he also made an appearance in the popular ITC show Randall and Hopkirk ( Deceased ) in the fifth episode of the series " That's How Murder Snowballs " as Abel, a framed performer in a major London theatre.

The writing out of the character of Nigel caused much controversy among Archers ' listeners, with a large number of complaints variously expressing dismay at the death of a popular character, concerns over the manner of the dismissal of the actor, belief that the promise to ' shake Ambridge to the core ' had been over-hyped, criticism of the credibility of the script and acting for the anniversary episode, and a perceived unwillingness of the editorial team to engage with these listener complaints.

Although initially popular, this Hollywood Squares series ' ratings began to slide, and the final first-run episode aired on June 16, 1989 with reruns continuing until September 8.

She was a guest star in one episode of the popular Ben Casey television series starring Vince Edwards and was a frequent guest on chat shows of the day including numerous appearances on shows hosted by Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, Joe Franklin, Dinah Shore and Johnny Carson.

In 2005, the popular British automotive show Top Gear aired its " Winter Olympics special ", an episode of various Olympic event-themed challenges involving cars, set in the surrounding area of Lillehammer.

Other episode ideas come from popular culture.

" The final episode of the series was followed the next week by the first episode of Jonathan Creek, which became a popular long-running crime series.

An episode of a popular Quebec television series L ' Amour avec un Grand A called Lise, Pierre et Marcel focuses on the life of a homosexual man who is married and reveals to his wife and kids that he is attracted to another man.

In episode 93 of the USA popular science show Mythbusters, they attempted to fool the polygraph by using pain to try to increase the readings when answering truthfully ( so the machine will supposedly interpret the truthful and non-truthful answers as the same.