From the fifth century to Viking Age in present-day Norway, certain women belonging upper strata of society were buried with high-quality ornamental bow-brooches. Although adjusting changing styles decoration, practical function and basic form brooches - rectangular headplate, bow rhomboidal footplate – remained more or less same throughout centuries they use. By exploring burials which include...

In this article, I analyse the music of three documentary films produced during Popular Unity. argue that a series factors shift in use from specially composed avant-garde to pre-existent recordings. am particularly concerned with how these recordings were pivotal producing shared identification among audience. At first glance, seems be limited exclusively Chilean New Song repertoire, but on fu...

Social group memberships are primarily studied in quasi-experimental contexts, but how can culture, class and gender be manipulated true experimental designs? This review highlights the different empirical strategies that used to manipulate “culture” as it relates race/ethnicity (activation of thinking styles, language, priming cultural constructs), (social standing, status, or perceived social...

Heritage shophouses are the primary architectural legacy that has greatly characterised place identity of urban historic district in Malaysia since 17th century through its distinctive design character. In contrast to modern building is seen as contextually isolated from district, heritage successful fitting into due significantly responsive contextual factors. This paper aims systematically re...

As a theologian working in Western Europe, religious plurality is unavoidable for me. It seems that our context can no longer be identified in terms of secularization. Competing worldviews and complementing religious stories dictate the religious landscape (and increasingly so, due to migration and global communication). The religions present in my country, however, are not monolithic and stabl...

Products, styles, and social movements often catch on and become popular, but little is known about why such identity-relevant cultural tastes and practices die out. We demonstrate that the velocity of adoption may affect abandonment: Analysis of over 100 years of data on first-name adoption in both France and the United States illustrates that cultural tastes that have been adopted quickly die...

This course-based research study explored CYC students’ thinking about the relationship between hair, self-perception, and identity. It focuses on students for two reasons. First, ability to form meaningful relationships with youth of many different cultural backgrounds diverse lifestyles is an essential skill practitioners. Second, are encouraged engage in discovery learning aimed at uncoverin...

During colonization in the 16th century both the Spanish and indigenous population underwent a dramatic cultural change. Puebla, Mexico is a unique city to discover the layers of identity because a different approach the Spanish decided to pursue to build its society. As Mexico’s first industrialized city, it is also the first Mexican city that was not built upon existing indigenous civilizatio...