Sentence examples for aboriginal element from inspiring English sources

450 bc), Greek thinkers had worked out a detailed ethnological theory, identifying the Ionians with the aboriginal element in Greece (Pelasgoi) and the Dorians with the immigrant northern Hellenes proper.

Because the ordinary laws of commercial filmmaking apply only loosely to musicals, the childlike crudeness; the naïve, pie-in-the-sky optimism; and the uneven performances, not to mention the "exotic" (read Aboriginal) elements of "Bran Nue Dae" could work either for or against it outside its homeland.

Treatments feature Australian ingredients, including Aboriginal elements (rhythmic massage, a sprinkling of desert salt).

Great Basin peyote rituals are generally a mixture of aboriginal and Christian elements.

At the massacre sites that dot the Australian landscape, where shattered bones are still, today, laid bare by the elements, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were rarely spared.

In an interview with the Guardian, Carolyn Bennett said that victims' families will play a key role in the inquiry, which could also include elements of aboriginal ceremony and culture.

Elements of Aboriginal, French, British and more recent immigrant customs, languages and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada and thus a Canadian identity.

More recently there have been solo dance versions devised by Molissa Fenley and Javier de Frutos, a punk rock interpretation from Michael Clark, and Rites (2008), by The Australian Ballet in conjunction with Bangarra Dance Theatre, which represents Aboriginal perceptions of the elements of earth, air, fire and water.

This was experienced as forced and painful separation from the fundamental essential elements of Aboriginal life and Aboriginal ways of being.

5 Sharing food is a key element of the Aboriginal culture in the NWT.

The Sun Music series added Japanese, Balinese and other Asian elements to the aboriginal ones in Sculthorpe's music as he sought a language to reflect Australia's position on the globe and his pantheistic outlook: he described what he did as "seeking the sacred in nature".