The naked body is a complex phenomenon, combining variety of functions. Nudity can be symbols threat/insecurity, aggression/victim, freedom/slavery. Teatro Oficina, located in the São Paulo suburbs, offers us unique example nudity for construction national identity. Based on Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade's "Anthropophagic Manifesto," theatre founders made and anthropophagy their theatrical c...

This article studies the collection of tinderboxes from nineteenth to twentieth centuries National Museum Republic Buryatia, more particularly, funds M. N. Khangalov Buryatia History and Ts. S. Sampilov Art Museum. The Buryat flint has not been a subject specialized research previously. It was studied in context on history traditional culture national costume several works history, ethnography,...

traditions and manners of nuba is part of egyptian’s culture which is emerged in novelists’ works of nuba in various ways and most of the times they have been denied and objected; because ignorance and prejudice govern them, is routed in their culture and except in very few cases, they never change. the novel “playing over nuba mountains” by edris ali is one of the novels which is clearly analy...

Orthodoxy, and other so-called world religions that were complicit with colonialist expansion and its repression of the “other peoples” (indigenous), their rites and beliefs. For centuries, colonial societies have denied that indigenous peoples had “religions” at all; as the great photographer of Native North American cultures Edward S. Curtis stated, “There seems to be a broadly prevalent idea...

Palawakya dance is a kind of which mixes the arts dance, music, and old Balinese song called Kakawin. Culturally, consists various lexicons used in common life but it getting rarely by people nowadays. This research was designed form descriptive qualitative applying an ecolinguistic approach. It focused on analyzing costumes Jagaraga Village, Singaraja. Observation interview were conducted to o...

A tradition is a behavioral practice that is shared among members of a group; is performed repeatedly over a period of time (that is, it is enduring); and depends to a measurable degree on social contributions to individual learning for its appearance in new practitioners (for elaboration see Fragaszy and Perry7). I will consider the implications of this definition for how we can identify tradi...

Herbal therapies have become an integral part of the American health care scene. Since 1991, public use of herbal products has increased quite markedly, with over $5 billion spent annually. This does not include the many (up to 25%) pharmaceutical products used in conventional practice that originally were, and in some cases still are, derived from plants (Table 69.1). The perennial appeal of h...