" Indeed, Li ' l Abner incorporates such a panoply of characters and ideas that it defies summary ," according to cultural historian Anthony Harkins.

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

Notable Nova Scotian folklorist and cultural historian Helen Creighton spent the majority of her lifetime recording the various Celtic musical and folk traditions of rural Nova Scotia during the mid-20th century, prior to this knowledge being wiped out by mass media assimilation with the rest of North America.

Hume was an early cultural historian of science.

* Jacob Burckhardt ( 19th century cultural historian ) dismissed Eusebius as " the first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity ".

His wide-ranging Spirit of the Laws ( 1748 ) spanned legal, geographical, cultural, economic, political and philosophical studies and was greatly influential in forging the fundamentally interdisciplinary historian.

This is partly thanks to the acquisition of Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, a well known cultural historian and media scholar, as well as the Inaugural Verklin Media Policy and Ethics Conference, endowed by the CEO of Canoe Ventures and UVA alumnus David Verklin.

The Jewish historian Artapanus of Alexandria ( 2nd century BCE ), portrayed Moses as a cultural hero, alien to the Pharaonic court.

The early years of the 21st century have seen a shift of opinion in Scott's favour, in what cultural historian Stephanie Barczewski calls " a revision of the revisionist view ".

According to cultural historian Bruce Thompson, Fritz Lang movie Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ( 1922 ) captures Berlin's postwar mood:

* January 28 – Robert von Dassanowsky, American cultural historian, writer, and producer

Czech cultural historian and ethnographer Čeněk Zíbrt, who wrote in detail about the origin of the dance, in his book, Jak se kdy v Čechách tancovalo cites an opinion of František Doucha ( 1840, Květy, p. 400 ) that " polka " was supposed to mean " tanec na polo " ( n. b. the absence of diacritics ), i. e., " a dance in half ", both referring to the half-tempo 2 / 4 and the half-jump step of the dance.

Circa stardate 2534. 0 ( 2266 ), in the Original Series episode " Patterns of Force ," cultural observer and historian John Gill openly created a regime based on Nazi Germany on a primitive planet in a misguided effort to create a society which combined what he ( mistakenly ) viewed as the high efficiency of a fascist dictatorship with a more benign philosophy, thereby contaminating the normal and healthy development of the planet's culture.

Feminist cultural analyst, theorist and art historian Griselda Pollock contributed to cultural studies from viewpoints of art history and psychoanalysis.

Of great importance to Charles V's cultural program was his vast library, housed in his expanded Louvre, and described in great detail by the 19th century French historian Leopold Delisle.

Steven Biel, an American cultural historian, notes the novelistic way in which Lord tells the story.

Bernal and the cultural historian Jacques Barzun.

According to the historian Frank Dikötter, " The delusive myth of a Chinese antiquity that abandoned racial standards in favour of a concept of cultural universalism in which all barbarians could ultimately participate has understandably attracted some modern scholars.

Focusing on the cultural and political use of the architecture at Framlingham, historian D. Plowman has put forward a revisionist interpretation of the castle's architecture in the late medieval period.

Castles continued to be built and reworked in what cultural historian Matthew Johnson has described as a " conscious attempt to invoke values seen as being under threat ".

He also enjoyed a reputation as a cultural historian.

Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder ( 5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008 ) was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.

The Vampyre has been accounted by cultural critic Christopher Frayling as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written and spawned a craze for vampire fiction and theatre ( and latterly film ) which has not ceased to this day.

Christopher Frayling, in his noted book on the Italian Western, describes American critical reception of the spaghetti Western cycle as, to " a large extent, confined to a sterile debate about the ' cultural roots ' of the American / Hollywood Western.

In 1992, the ( final ) British Governor of Hong Kong, Christopher Patton, presented a teak dragonboat to the Canadian Prime Minister of the day, Brian Mulroney, to mark the close cultural, social and business ties between Hong Kong and Canada.

* Theodor Adorno, ( philosopher and cultural theorist ) ( once lived at 45 Christopher Street )

Christopher Henry Dawson ( 12 October 1889, Hay Castle – 25 May 1970, Budleigh Salterton ) was a British independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and Christendom.

Although these studies were never completed, Christopher remains an advocate for the cultural workforce and music education.

In the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch combined these into a single synoptic view of material which Andrew Stewart calls a " historically-intractable farrago of ' evidence ', heavily tinged with Athenian cultural chauvinism ".

In 2007, Loach was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter initiated by Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism and the South West Asian, North African Bay Area Queers ( SWANABAQ ) and calling on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival " to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate.

Luis Benitez-Bribiesca M. D., a critic of memetics, calls the theory a " pseudoscientific dogma " and " a dangerous idea that poses a threat to the serious study of consciousness and cultural evolution ".

Fredric Jameson, the major figure in the thinking on postmodernism and culture, calls postmodernism " the cultural dominant of the logic of late capitalism " ( Jameson 1991, 46 ), meaning that, through globalization, postmodern culture is tied inextricably with capitalism ( Mark Fisher, writing 20 years later, goes further, essentially calling it the sole cultural possibility ( Fisher 2009, 4 )).

Its concept of what it calls a multiracial society envisaged complete racial integration, including intermarriage, as well as cultural adaptation.

In this context, cultural relativism is an attitude that is of fundamental methodological importance, because it calls attention to the importance of the local context in understanding the meaning of particular human beliefs and activities.

In this context, cultural relativism is a heuristic device of fundamental importance because it calls attention to the importance of variation in any sample that is used to derive generalizations about humanity.

Since its dealings with the 1993 GATT free trade negotiations, France has fought for what it calls the exception culturelle, meaning the right to subsidize or treat favorably domestic cultural production and to limit or control foreign cultural products ( as seen in public funding for French cinema or the lower VAT accorded to books ).

The second phase calls for the demolition of a dilapidated commercial area, to be replaced by six-story buildings housing a performing arts center, a large library, a hotel, an education center, a conference center, retail and office space, a trail linking to Gardner Village and the Jordan River trail, and a cultural pavilion to house the planned light rail station.

Dr. Zvi Lederman, co-director of the Tel Aviv University Beth Shemesh dig which discovered the seal discussed below, believes that Beth Shemesh, a Canaanite village, was a cultural meeting point on the border of Israelite, Canaanite and Philistine areas and calls the stories " border sagas ", saying that Samson could cross boundaries, seeking a Philistine wife but also fighting and killing Philistines.

Soft power is not merely non-traditional forces such as cultural and commercial goods, as this confuses the resources that may produce behavior with the behavior itself – what Steven Lukes calls the “ vehicle fallacy .” Neither is it the case that all non-military actions are forms of soft power, as certain non-military actions, such as economic sanctions, are clearly intended to coerce and are thus a form of hard power.

He has attributed many modern social problems to what he calls the " cultural left ".

Lyrically composed, Snow Bracelet calls our attention to the inevitable conflict and harmony of different social, cultural, racial and ethnic groups in the 21st century.

The cultural program of True Finns, preferring " traditional art " over what the party calls postmodernism in state subsidies, started a debate.

Bessell proposes that people are drawn together by a force which he calls " romantic attraction ," which is a combination of genetic and cultural factors.

While supporting to withdraw from the European Union, the National Front wants to create greater cultural links between Europe, what it calls the " White nations ".

Historian of ancient China Mark Edward Lewis speaks of the Yellow Emperor's " earlier nature as a god ," whereas Roel Sterckx, a professor at University of Cambridge, calls Huangdi a " legendary cultural hero.

Arbitrariness has been noted in meerkat calls ; bee dances show elements of spatial displacement ; and cultural transmission has possibly occurred between the celebrated bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha.

" By referring to Turks as “ Ali ” and “ Ahmet ”, the quintessential image of the Turkish Gastarbeiter, Cartel calls its listeners to see beyond Turkish stereotypes while holding them accountable for all cultural assumptions.

This led to increasing calls in the 1960s and 1970s for the right of individuals to legally enforce economic, social and cultural rights and the welfare provisions they as individuals were entitled to.

In conclusion, she calls for a radical cultural shift in the kind of knowledge valued as significant, relevant, and beneficial to the people on whom genetic ancestry studies are carried out and she asks for attention to the political contexts surrounding all such research.