Interculturality is a notion that has come to dominate the debate on cultural diversity among supranational bodies such as the European Union and UNESCO in recent years. The EU goes so far as to identify interculturality as a key cultural and linguistic characteristic of a union which, it argues, acts as an inspiration to other parts of the world. At the same time, the very notion of intercultu...

As a key component of Chinese cultural tradition, Ethnic and folk culture proves the hotbed that nourishes the national spirit. The embroidery of the Miao ethnic community (“Miao embroidery” for short) exemplifies the best of Chinese ethnic and folk culture. Integrating at once the historical, aesthetic, and moral values, the Miao embroidery provides a high-quality resource for artistic educati...

BACKGROUND Global changes that affect local societies may cause the loss of ecological knowledge. The process of cultural change in Zapotec communities of the Oaxacan Isthmus intensified during the first years of the 20th century due to industrial and agro-industrial modernization projects and an increase in the level of formal schooling. Based on the case of the Oaxacan Isthmus, this study ass...

Historical documents are mostly accessible to scholars specialized in the period in which the document originated. In order to increase their accessibility to a broader audience and help in the preservation of the cultural heritage, we propose a method to modernized these documents. This method is based in statistical machine translation, and aims at translating historical documents into a mode...

intellectual developments, political movements and cultural policies of government during the pahlavi era, played a significant role in formation and developing of important tendencies of iranian modern painting. the present article, based on the analytic approaches, investigates the influence of the leftist, nationalistic and islamist movements on art, and simultaneously studies the role of go...

Africans’ greatest problem was the incursion of white men tino Africa many decades ago, even though European authors described as darkness before coming man, natural growth that had been established in African kingdoms aborted brought and imposed another culture upon Africa. The Odo masquerade cult has outlived colonial invasion is still serving a worship cultural system. objective this study t...

The purpose of the article is a comparative analysis unification processes, functioning national consciousness, realities culture emerging in ethno-culture new Kazakhstan. In modernization and civilizational practice modern state, consciousness plays special role as an expert relation to universals culture: we are talking about echoes universal values worldview ethnic group. Testing these also ...

The undersigned, appointed by the dean of the Graduate School, have examined the thesis entitled CULTURAL VALUES REFLECTED WITHIN CHINESE CHILDREN'S STORIES presented by Chenyi Zhang, a candidate for the degree of Master of Science, and hereby certify that, in their opinion, it is worthy of acceptance. the research design and helpful suggestions in the writing process. I would also like to show...