As the research has piled up over the past several decades, with recantations and modifications following each new finding, one senses that divorce has come to be a leading cultural indicator, the locus for a whole cluster of our anxieties about everything from sex to death.
Once the capital of Morocco, Fez remains a cultural and spiritual locus; the medina, named a Unesco World Heritage site in 1981, is said to be one of the largest car-free urban zones in the world.
Bangalore is the indisputable center of activity in southwestern India, but Mysore (pictured), the second city of Karnataka, was only recently the sole cultural and political locus in the region.
Island forests also play a strong cultural role as a locus of subsistence and recreational activities [11, 12].
Island forests also play a strong cultural role as a locus of subsistence and recreational activities [ 11, 12].
Accordingly, the maintenance and change of cultural systems is a key locus of political struggle.
Cities allow for more social interaction and are the locus of much cultural activity.
Because we have modeled the cultural trait after a microsatellite locus, we can use HT to quantify cultural diversity in our artificial populations.
At the crossroads of trade and multiple religious traditions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism), the valley became a shared sacred site, a focus of social and cultural exchange, and the creative locus of much Himalayan art.
