The adaptive evolution of cultural ecosystems is a distinctive process along the Silk Road in China, involving transitional interaction nature and culture. This study aims to provide theoretical recommendations for management heritage sites assess values keep balance between tourism development protection. paper focuses on 22 western China pattern landscapes with landscape changes transmission ...

since land reform in iran, rural studies and rural sociology have been concentrated on rural society as economical and political phenomena; therefore mostly traditional systems of production and power were noted in researches. one issue that was not addressed in this academic discourse was rural religion. religion as a core of culture and the main context to reproduce social integration has a k...

The purpose of this article is to attempt a conceptual reconstruction Marx’s ecological doctrine the historicity social metabolism. Based on texts Karl Marx and works other authors, using methods textual analysis, contextualization, extrapolation dialectical historicization, reconstructs in very first approximation dynamics three historical forms metabolism – pre-capitalist, capitalist post-cap...

abstract the move toward modernism along with the cultural globalization and the rise of consumer culture make fashionism and also permanent surveillance and focusing on the visible characteristics of the body a common phenomenon in contemporary societies.nowadays, modern people with the use of fashionable things and through paying extreme attention to cloth and appearance construct personal im...

The signs and symptoms of disease do something more than signify the functioning of our bodies: they also signify critically sensitive and contradictory components of our culture and social relations. Yet, in our standard medical practices this social “language” emanating from our bodies is manipulated by concealing it within the realm of biological signs. I try to show this by means of a patie...