Among other " firsts ", the Olmec appeared to practice ritual bloodletting and played the Mesoamerican ballgame, hallmarks of nearly all subsequent Mesoamerican societies.

Among several Mesoamerican tribes the term also means sun, light, day.

Among Mesoamerican peoples the capture of prisoners was a priority, while to the Spanish such taking of prisoners was a hindrance to outright victory.

Among the Baltic peoples are modern Lithuanians, Latvians ( including Latgalians ) — all Eastern Balts — as well as the Prussians, Yotvingians and Galindians — the Western Balts — whose languages and cultures are now extinct.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

Among the main towns of this period were the cultures: Jambelí, Guangala, Bahia, Tejar-Daule, La Tolita, Jama Coaque in the coast of Ecuador, in the sierras the Cerro Narrío Alausí ; and in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle the Tayos.

Among the beliefs held by some cultures, hyenas are thought to influence people ’ s spirits, rob graves, and steal livestock and children.

Among the Andean cultures, a jaguar cult disseminated by the early Chavín culture became accepted over most of what is today Peru by 900 BC.

Among the earliest cultures utilizing swastika is the neolithic Vinča culture of South-East Europe ( see Vinča symbols ).

Among the cultural traits that the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan shared with many other cultures of central Mexico are the agricultural basis of maize cultivation, the basic social organization dividing society into classes of noble pipiltin and macehualli commoners, the complex religious beliefs and practices including most of the pantheon ( e. g. gods such as Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc and Quetzalcoatl ), the calendric system of a xiuhpohualli of 365 days intercalated with a tonalpohualli of 260 days.

Among various countries or cultures, males are expected and / or encouraged to want to engage in sexual activity, and to be more sexually-experienced.

Among the many various Eskimo cultures, term silap inua / sila, hillap inua / hilla ( among Inuit ), siḷam iñua ( among Inupiaq ), ellam yua / ella ( among Yup ' ik ) is used with some diversity.

Among New World societies, trepanning is most commonly found in the Andean civilizations such as the pre-Incan cultures.

Among many Middle Eastern Muslim cultures egalitarian or age-structured homosexual practices were, and remain, widespread and thinly veiled.

Among the oldest surviving examples of erotic depictions are Paleolithic cave paintings and carvings, but many cultures have created erotic art.

Among the Ojibwe, Eastern Cree, Westmain Swampy Cree, Naskapi, and Innu, Wendigos were said to be giants, many times larger than human beings ( a characteristic absent from the Wendigo myth in the other Algonquian cultures ).

Among northern Algonquian cultures, cannibalism, even to save one's own life, was viewed as a serious taboo ; the proper response to famine was suicide or resignation to death.

Among the attractions here are a mummified cat, a 1 / 12 scale model of the original Ferris wheel made out of Erector sets, life and death masks of famous celebrities ( including Abraham Lincoln ), and shamanistic apparati from cultures around the world.

Among these cultures were the Carthaginian-their native civilization, Roman, Vandal, Jewish, Christian, Arab, Islamic, Turkish, and French, in addition to native Berbers.

Among the many lists of news values that have been drawn up by scholars and journalists, some, like Galtung and Ruge's, attempt to describe news practices across cultures, while others have become remarkably specific to the press of certain ( often Western ) nations.

Among Christians, the Bible is most commonly used ( in the Sortes Sanctorum ), and in Islamic cultures the Qur ' an.

Among three hundred officially recognized Indonesian cultures, there are many kinds of traditional games: cockfighting in Bali, annual bull races in Madura, and stone jumping in Nias.

Among the Celts, the ring and spokes may represent the cycle of the year divided in its four seasons, rather than the sun, which is a common meaning among cultures.

Among the Gypsy and Traveler cultures represented include those traditionally known as Rom, Romnichels, Calé, Sinti, Ludar, Romungre, Irish Travellers, Scottish Travellers and others.

Among its educational goals are creating a unique mix of cultures and providing the basic and necessary education to allow students to enter various professions.

Among the most important, pre-1995 monographs are: Abroad ( 1980 ) by Paul Fussell, an exploration of British interwar travel writing as escapism ; Gone Primitive: Modern Intellects, Savage Minds ( 1990 ) by Marianna Torgovnick, an inquiry into the primitivist presentation of foreign cultures ; Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing ( 1991 ) by Dennis Porter, a close look at the psychological correlatives of travel ; Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women ’ s Travel Writing by Sara Mills, an inquiry into the intersection of gender and colonialism during the 19th century ; Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation ( 1992 ), Mary Louise Pratt's influential study of Victorian travel writing ’ s dissemination of a colonial mind-set ; and Belated Travelers ( 1994 ), an analysis of colonial anxiety by Ali Behdad.

Among the principles identified are the need to teach more and not less content to poor children, ensuring children access to conventions / strategies necessary for succeeding in the context of American society, connecting students ' knowledge and experiences from their social contexts to knowledge acquired in the schools and acknowledgement and recognition of students ' home cultures.

Among the goals of ethnology have been the reconstruction of human history, and the formulation of cultural invariants, such as the incest taboo and culture change, and the formulation of generalizations about " human nature ", a concept which has been criticized since the 19th century by various philosophers ( Hegel, Marx, structuralism, etc .).

Among Christian heresiologists, the concept of false gnosis was used to denote different Pagan, Jewish or Christian belief systems ( e. g. the Eleusinian Mysteries or Glycon ) and their various teachings of what was deemed

Among the most radical re-thinkers of human self-consciousness was Heidegger, whose concept of Dasein or " Being-there " displaces traditional notions of the personal subject altogether.

Among many strands of thought, three stand out as essential to Clausewitz's concept:

Among Whorf's well known examples of linguistic relativity are examples of instances where an indigenous language has several terms for a concept that is only described with one word in English and other European languages ( Whorf used the acronym SAE " Standard Average European " to allude to the rather similar grammatical structures of the well-studied European languages in contrast to the greater diversity of the less-studied languages ).

Among the current advocates of consensus theory as a useful accounting of the concept of " truth " is the philosopher Jürgen Habermas.

Among the theoretical concerns of these views is to explain away those special cases where it does appear that the concept of truth has peculiar and interesting properties.

Among the Romans, Marsyas was cast as the inventor of augury and a proponent of free speech ( the philosophical concept παρρησία, " parrhesia ") and " speaking truth to power.

Among the more widely circulated and popular defining parameters is the concept of food miles, which has been suggested for policy recommendations.

Among the Zoas, he represents the south and the concept of reason.

Among other research, Oliphant worked on the artificial disintegration of the atomic nucleus and positive ions, and he designed and built complex particle accelerators, being the first to conceive the concept of the proton synchrotron.

Among Fei Xiaotong's most important contributions to anthropology is the concept that Chinese social relations work through social networks of personal relations with the self at the center and decreasing closeness as one moves out.

Among researchers who have since further developed the concept of mobbing are:

Among the minor parties, the Christian Heritage Party, running its first election candidates, supported the concept of free trade but had serious reservations about the negotiated agreement ; the Communist Party fully opposed NAFTA, seeing it as a serious threat to Canadian economic sovereignty, and as seriously harmful to the labour rights of the middle class.

Among elves the concept of an unwanted child is unthinkable.

Among them were other scientists like Ackoff, Ashby and Churchman, who popularized the systems concept in the 1950s and 1960s.

Among the various schema and techniques for visualizing ideas, processes, organizations, concept mapping, as developed by Joseph Novak is unique in philosophical basis, which " makes concepts, and propositions composed of concepts, the central elements in the structure of knowledge and construction of meaning.

Among the issues Fox was asked to defend were that he: called God " Mother ";” preferred the concept of Original Blessing over Original Sin ; worked too closely with Native American spiritual practices ; did not condemn homosexuality ; and taught the four paths of creation spirituality — the Via Positiva, Via Negativa, Via Creativa and Via Transformativa instead of the church ’ s classical three paths of purgation, illumination and union.

Among the " firsts " by Marshall Field's was the concept of the department store tea room.

This work ( a concept regarding the different side of human nature ) includes, among the others, the song " Life Among the Ruins " which is not related to the previous album with the same title.

Among the innovative features of the 1980 document is the concept of " collective mastery " of society, a frequently used expression attributed to the late party secretary, Le Duan ( 1908-1986 ).

Among those who do, the concept may be applied to Sunday or Saturday:

Among the six systems of Hindu philosophy, early Samkhya and Mimamsa do not consider the concept of Ishvara, i. e., a supreme being, while later Samkhya, Yoga, Vaisheshika, Vedanta and Nyaya believe in the existence of an Ishvara.

Among them is the concept of a " double faith ", the coexistence and mutual penetration of two religions — the " popular " and the " official ".