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 ".

Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie, who produced a long series of books featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the reader to try to unravel.

The Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than " angry " and " hungry ," that ends with the letters "- gry.

Minesweeper ( video game ) | Minesweeper, a popular computer puzzle game found on many machines.

One of the most popular puzzle games is Tetris.

On November 7, 2006 he also produced Lumines II for PSP, the sequel to the popular original ( this time supplementing the original score with a heavy integration of music videos ), and a shooter / puzzle hybrid game called Every Extend Extra ( a heavily-modified ' synesthesia ' update to an existing PC freeware title, Every Extend ," by indie developer " Omega "), which was released on August 7, 2006.

Another form of logic puzzle, popular among puzzle enthusiasts and available in magazines dedicated to the subject, is a format in which the set-up to a scenario is given, as well as the object ( for example, determine who brought what dog to a dog show, and what breed each dog was ), certain clues are given (" neither Misty nor Rex is the German Shepherd "), and then the reader fills out a matrix with the clues and attempts to deduce the solution.

Treasure maps have taken on numerous permutations in literature and film, such as the stereotypical tattered chart with an over-sized " X " ( as in " X marks the spot ") to denote the treasure's location, first made popular by Robert Louis Stevenson in Treasure Island ( 1883 ), a cryptic puzzle ( in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug " ( 1843 )), or a tattoo as seen in the video game The Space Adventure-Cobra: The Legendary Bandit ( 1991 ) and the film Waterworld ( 1995 ).

The origin of the popular English language name monkey puzzle derives from its early cultivation in Britain in about 1850, when the species was still very rare in gardens and not widely known.

The proud owner of a young specimen at Pencarrow garden near Bodmin in Cornwall was showing it to a group of friends, and one made the remark " It would puzzle a monkey to climb that "; as the species had no existing popular name, first ' monkey puzzler ', then ' monkey puzzle ' stuck.

Around the year 1800 the Tangram puzzle from China became popular, and 20 years later it had spread through Europe and America.

Boxes called secret boxes or puzzle boxes with secret opening mechanisms extremely popular in Japan, are included in this category.

* Hedgehog in the Cage: mechanical puzzle popular in the Czech Republic

* The most popular and most long-running Italian crossword weekly magazine, " La Settimana Enigmistica ", which typically features the picture of a star on its cover page puzzle, had Lupe Vélez on its no.

In the English language, the expression " Japanese puzzle " usually refers to logic puzzles, which ( at least in the past ) have been more popular in Japan than in the West, where word games dominate.

At sixteen years old she contributed to the most popular children's publication of the day, St. Nicholas Magazine — also the first publisher of 20th century writers F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rachel Carson, and William Faulkner — with a puzzle titled " Double Headings and Curtailings ".

In Modern Times, Chaplin creates a “ portrayal consistent with popular leftist stereotypes of wealthy capitalists and oppressed workers in the 1930s .” While the Tramp and his fellow workers sweat on the assembly line, the president of the Electro Steel Company works on a puzzle and reads the funnies in the newspaper.

Comparison by eye may also be used as a source of amusement or intelligence testing, as in the popular puzzle of spot the difference.

It has even reached popularity with the general public in the form of the popular number puzzle Sudoku.

Because the puzzle solutions require knowledge of esoteric and eclectic topics, the hunt is often fused with popular stereotypes of MIT students.

For instance, in the popular nonogram puzzles, also known as paint by numbers or griddlers, the set of squares to be determined represents the dark pixels in a bitmap image, and the input given to the puzzle solver tells him or her how many consecutive blocks of dark pixels to include in each row or column of the image, and how long each of those blocks should be.

* Quark ( magazine ), a 1970s popular science and puzzle magazine

It was also launched with the extraordinarily popular puzzle game Tetris as a pack-in.