The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America, but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not-strictly-practical ends of culture.

In this respect experience is broader and full of a richer variety of potential meanings than the mind of man or any of his arts or culture are capable of making clear and distinct.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.

For it is such a distinguished place, with such fine works of art and such a big library, that there can be little doubt but that the owner has become depraved by all this culture.

He is in a hurry to write another essay against culture.

That he mastered every aspect of his medium according to his own great talents and contemporary judgments, is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; ;

only seldom is it so simple as to be a matter of his obviously parroting some timeworn axiom, common to our culture, which he has evidently heard, over and over, from a parent until he experiences it as part of him.

One of the significant things about Jewish culture in the older teen years is that it is largely college-oriented.

And the rebellion of these third generation Jews is not the traditional conflict of culture but, rather, a protest against a culture that they view as softly and insidiously enveloping.

It now becomes evident that the denominational church is intimately involved with the economy of middle-class culture, for it serves to crystallize the social class identity of middle-class residential groupings.

The population of the Congo is 13.5 million, divided into at least seven major `` culture clusters '' and innumerable tribes speaking 400 separate dialects.

Nor is it necessary to look for such evidence in the great urban centers of our culture that are admittedly almost entirely secularized and so profoundly estranged from the conventional forms in which the gospel has been communicated.

It is the study of culture, and is based mainly on ethnography.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

It is possible to view all human cultures as part of one large, ever-changing global culture.

At the same time, the Romantic reaction to the Enlightenment produced thinkers, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and later Wilhelm Dilthey, whose work formed the basis for the " culture concept ," which is central to the discipline.

Of course, the " substrate " of Angolan culture is African, mostly Bantu, while Portuguese culture has been imported.

Hyperborea, which is a lost continent of the Miocene period, and Poseidonis, which is a remnant of Atlantis, are much the same, with a magical culture characterized by bizarreness, cruelty, death and postmortem horrors.

Thus, Judaism has also been characterized as a culture or as a civilization.

Despite being characterized as unreliable, the work is valued as both a study of Turkish culture and the lands he reports on.

Hypoglycemia ( common usage ) is also a term in popular culture and alternative medicine for a common, often self-diagnosed, condition characterized by shakiness and altered mood and thinking, but without measured low glucose or risk of severe harm.

* Conservative Judaism, known as Masorti outside the United States and Canada, is characterized by a commitment to traditional Jewish laws and customs, including observance of Shabbat and kashrut, a deliberately non-fundamentalist teaching of Jewish principles of faith, a positive attitude toward modern culture, and an acceptance of both traditional rabbinic and modern scholarship when considering Jewish religious texts.

The culture of Karachi is characterized by the blending of South Asian, Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Western influences, as well as its status as a major international business centre.

* Merriam-Webster: Either " of, relating to, or being an era after a modern one ", or " of, relating to, or being any of various movements in reaction to modernism that are typically characterized by a return to traditional materials and forms ( as in architecture ) or by ironic self-reference and absurdity ( as in literature )", or, finally " of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language ".

This kingdom was characterized by a rich Hellenistic culture, and was to continue its domination of Bactria until around 125 BC, when it was overrun by the invasion of northern nomads.

The Soviet writer Ivan Efremov produced during the " Thaw " period the science-fiction utopia Andromeda ( 1957 ) in which a united humanity communicates with a galaxy-wide Great Circle and develops its technology and culture within a social framework characterized by vigorous competition between alternative philosophies.

Human societies are characterized by patterns of relationships ( social relations ) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions ; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members.

Noting the trend in reality shows that take the paranormal at face value, The New York Times culture editor Mike Hale characterized ghost hunting shows as " pure theater " and compared the genre to professional wrestling or soft core pornography for its formulaic, teasing approach.

The beginning of the Late Neolithic Period about 2200 BC is characterized by the appearance of the Corded Ware culture, pottery with corded decoration and well-polished stone axes ( s. c. boat-shape axes ).

For two centuries New Netherland Dutch culture characterized the region ( today's Capital District around Albany, the Hudson Valley, western Long Island, northeastern New Jersey, and New York City ).

Although clowns are originally comic performers and characterized to humor and entertain people, the image of the evil clown is a development in popular culture, in which the playful trope of the clown is rendered as disturbing through the use of horror elements and dark humor.

As such, in the Western world, since the late 18th century, the bourgeoisie describes a social class " characterized by their ownership of capital, and their related culture "; hence, the personal terms bourgeois ( masculine, pronounced bo ͝ orˈZHwä ) and bourgeoise ( feminine, pronounced bo ͝ orˈZHwäz ) culturally identify the man or woman who is a member of the wealthiest social class in capitalist societies.

The Jade from this culture is characterized by finely worked, large ritual jades such as Cong cylinders, Bi discs, Yue axes and also pendants and decorations in the form of chiseled open-work plaques, plates and representations of small birds, turtles and fish.

Roman dragons evolved from serpentine Greek ones, combined with the dragons of the Near East, in the mix that characterized the hybrid Greek / Eastern Hellenistic culture.

Prehistoric groups in this area are characterized by agricultural villages and large ceremonial and politico-religious capitals This culture area included some of the most complex and advanced cultures of the Americas, including the Olmec, Teotihuacan, the Maya, and the Aztec.

The Mississippi period was characterized by a mound-building culture.

John Harbison was a major contributor to the theory of bee culture with his development of new tools and methods that characterized the remarkable advances made in nineteenth century apicultural science.

The period between 1795 and 1837 ( the latter part of the reign of George III and the reigns of his sons George IV, as Prince Regent and King, and William IV ) was characterized by distinctive trends in British architecture, literature, fashions, politics, and culture.

The next stage of Almaty evolution is attributed to the Middle Ages ( 8 – 10th centuries ) and is characterized by city culture development, transfer to a settled way of living, farming and handicraft development, and the emergence of a number of towns and cities in the territory of Zhetysu.

Kuttner acknowledged “ de facto enroads ” before Glass-Steagall “ repeal ” but argued the GLBA ’ s “ repeal ” had permitted “ super-banks ” to “ re-enact the same kinds of structural conflicts of interest that were endemic in the 1920s ”, which he characterized as “ lending to speculators, packaging and securitizing credits and then selling them off, wholesale or retail, and extracting fees at every step along the way .” Stiglitz argued “ the most important consequence of Glass-Steagall repeal ” was in changing the culture of commercial banking so that the “ bigger risk ” culture of investment banking “ came out on top .” He also argued the GLBA “ created ever larger banks that were too big to be allowed to fail ”, which “ provided incentives for excessive risk taking .” Warren explained Glass-Steagall had kept banks from doing “ crazy things .” She credited FDIC insurance, the Glass-Steagall separation of investment banking, and SEC regulations as providing “ 50 years without a crisis ” and argued that crises returned in the 1980s with the “ pulling away of the threads ” of regulation.

The period was characterized by economic growth, strict social orders, isolationist foreign policies, an increase in both environmental protection and popular enjoyment of arts and culture.