When Christianity came to Australia, with the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, it came as the religion of the Europeans. After the new penal colony had survived the crises of the first few years, the British gradually extended their control over the whole continent. Thus they established in this country the dominance of European culture. In fact they were determined that this ‘new’ country w...

The word spirit with a small "s", has many meanings. It may mean 1) one of the elements in man which is considered as separable from the flesh and animating the body; or, 2)a person, from the moral, emotional or-intellectual point of view; or, 3) a person's disposition, permanent or temporary mental attitude, or, predominance of the spirit over the flesh especially as manifested in courage, ene...

After the boom of pharmacological research during the 1950s, mainly as a result of the screening technique, the identification of active molecules, their reshaping by means of pharmaco-chemical drug design, and the creation of extremely efficacious and successful medicines, the pharmaceutical world sought a new source of inspiration. Such biota as the tropical forest, a quantity of plants credi...

Abstract Garments are an important product in the history of human development. With development history, there is also a constant reform and evolution garments. As bearer historical culture each period, changes shape production process costume result continuous Chinese culture. Nowadays, artifacts from various dynasties continuously unearthed, which great value for study ancient costumes. From...

Abstract The present paper describes the native craft education and research carried out at University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy in Estonia. ‘Native crafts’ are understood as creative technical cultural practices, applications, developments that based on traditional local crafting techniques, materials, design principles, skills. mission academy is to represent values reinforce re-estab...