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traditional and European
Another problem is that Dutton's categories seek to universalise traditional European notions of aesthetics and art forgetting that, as André Malraux and others have pointed out, there have been large numbers of cultures in which such ideas ( including the idea " art " itself ) were non-existent.
During his acceptance speech he reflected on the important influence of traditional European music and the melancholy of the Swedish soul on ABBA's brand of pop music.
European Ballads have been generally classified into three major groups: traditional, broadside and literary.
Geography-note: landlocked ; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe ; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in central Europe
Its combination of modern innovation ( such as mixed gender seating ) and traditional practice particularly appealed to first and second-generation Eastern European Jewish immigrants, who found Orthodoxy too restrictive, but Reform Judaism foreign.
Cranberry sauce is regarded as an indispensable part of traditional American and Canadian Thanksgiving menus and some European winter festivals.
In traditional European usage, one centillion is 10 < sup > 600 </ sup >, which is equal to ( 10 < sup > 6 </ sup >)< sup > 100 </ sup >; that is, it's the number with a hundred times as many zeroes as a million.
Dairy products are commonly found in European, Middle Eastern and Indian cuisine, whereas they are unknown in traditional East Asian cuisine.
The traditional usage is Tiu ĉi plaĉas al mi ( literally, " this one is pleasing to me "), which reflects the phrasing of most European languages ( French celui-ci me plaît, Spanish éste me gusta, Russian это мне нравится mnye nravitsya, German Das gefällt mir, Italian mi piace ).
The English term " folklore ", to describe traditional folk music and dance, entered the vocabulary of many continental European nations, each of which had its folk-song collectors and revivalists.
Although Ireland's political spectrum was traditionally divided along Civil War lines, rather than the traditional European left-right spectrum, Fine Gael is described generally as a centre-right, Christian democratic party, with a focus on law and order, enterprise and reward, and fiscal rectitude.
In many European countries guilds have had a revival as local organizations for craftsmen, primarily in traditional skills.
In many language descriptions, particularly those of traditional European linguistics, the term tense is erroneously used to refer to categories that do not have time reference as their prototypical use, but rather are grammaticalisations of mood / modality ( e. g. uncertainty, possibility, evidentiality ) or aspect ( e. g. frequency, completion, duration ).
Napoleon's rule was constitutional, and although autocratic, it was much more advanced than traditional European monarchies of the time.
Wade Schuman, founder of the group Hazmat Modine, has fused overblowing with older traditional styles and middle European harmonies.
From that time icons began to be painted not only in the traditional stylized and nonrealistic mode, but also in a mixture of Russian stylization and Western European realism, and in a Western European manner very much like that of Catholic religious art of the time.
* During the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion, known as the Beeldenstorm in the Netherlands, Protestants destroyed traditional ( by then considered Catholic ) imagery in churches, including paintings, sculptures and other representations.
The term " secular " is more popular as a self-description among Israeli families of western ( European ) origin, whose Jewish identity may be a very powerful force in their lives, but who see it as largely independent of traditional religious belief and practice.
At a state level, the traditional rules still determine jurisdiction over persons who are not domiciled or habitually resident in the European Union or the Lugano area.
In conjunction with the arrival of European poetry and music this caused a significant reduction in the number of traditional folk songs and their singers.
Though not possible in traditional Latin dances like Rumba, Cha-cha, Tango Argentino because of partner separation, hip contact is a harmonious and sensual way of communicating movement to the partner, used primarily in Standard or Ballroom Dances ( English / slow Waltz, European Tango, Quickstep etc.
Because extensive European contact began so late in the country's history, the traditional social structure carried over into modern times with little change.
He also saw in the history of medieval European cities the rise of a unique form of " non-legitimate domination " that successfully challenged the existing forms of legitimate domination ( traditional, charismatic, and rational-legal ) that had prevailed until then in the Medieval world.
The day was a traditional summer holiday in many pre-Christian European pagan cultures.

traditional and warfare
This is revealed in his conceptions of " the people in arms " which he noted arose from the same social and political sources as traditional inter-state warfare ).
Guerrilla warfare is a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants including, but not limited to, armed civilians ( or " irregulars ") use military tactics, such as ambushes, sabotage, raids, petty warfare, the element of surprise, and extraordinary mobility to harass a larger and less-mobile traditional army, or strike a vulnerable target, and withdraw almost immediately.
The Spanish Army tried to fight the French invasion in the traditional " set-piece " style of warfare.
It is at this point in time that they master the use of these weapons of traditional warfare.
This style of warfare remained dominant in the Iberian Peninsula until the late 11th century, when couched lance tactics entered from France, although the traditional horse javelin-shot techniques continued to be used.
The Chinese invention of the hand-held, trigger-mechanism crossbow during this period revolutionized warfare, giving greater emphasis to infantry and cavalry and less to traditional chariot warfare.
The development of the armoured tank and improved infantry tactics at the end of World War I swung the pendulum back in favour of maneuver, and with the advent of Blitzkrieg in 1939, the end of traditional siege warfare was at hand.
) Several types of naval " torpedo " were developed and deployed, most often by the Confederates, who faced a severe disadvantage in more traditional warfare methods.
Finally, wargames do not necessarily have to involve traditional concepts of warfare and battles and games can enact typical film genres such as gang battles, crime and law enforcement.
Edward, however, rejected most of the traditional pursuits of a king for the period – jousting, hunting and warfareand instead enjoyed music, poetry and many rural crafts.
In addition, they were under pressure by warfare from the Iroquois pressing down from their traditional base in present-day New York because of competition in the fur trade.
The phenomenon of intensive warfare, based on mass formations of infantry rather than the traditional chariots, was one major trend which led to the creation of strong central bureaucracies in each of the major states.
The legacy of this battle forced a complete overhaul of traditional Japanese warfare.
It was at that time that he began to clash with Alan Brooke, the epitome of a traditional Horse Artillery officer, with very little interest in the requirements of modern mechanised warfare.
The " Howard faction " preferred a marriage alliance with Spain over one with France, the traditional ally of Scotland, and they preferred to keep out of open warfare with Spain promoted by the more zealous Puritans.
In traditional cultures of the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and hunter-gatherer societies the warfare was mostly ' endemic ', long duration, low intensity, usually evolving into almost a ritualized form.
As most were educated men acquainted with Roman military-science manuals ( e. g. Vegetius ’ s Epitoma rei militarii ), they began viewing warfare from the perspective of military science, rather than that of valor or physical courage — a great, consequential departure from chivalry, the traditional mediæval model of soldiering.
Active warfare between the groups flared when the Dutch East India Company enclosed traditional grazing land for farms.
Keegan's books include a traditional battle-by-battle coverage of conflict, experience of the individual, historical causes of military events, technological change in warfare, military strategy, and challenges of leadership.
Although this was illegal and abhorrent, it was traditional Maori behaviour or utu in the context of Māori warfare but made Kereopa a murderer and a cannibal under New Zealand law.
Inuit groups of the northern arctic region generally did not engage in direct warfare, primarily because of their small populations, relying on traditional law to resolve conflicts.

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