The studium denotes the cultural or political interpretation of the photograph; the punctum denotes the personally touching detail that establishes a direct relationship with the object or person within it.
For example, the term "outdooring" is used to denote a cultural milestone reflecting when a baby can be brought outside in Ghana.
The calling, ukutwasa, denotes an ancestral and cultural responsibility and is initiated usually by an illness, which is accompanied by strange dreams and visions.
Use of the word museum during the 19th and most of the 20th century denoted a building housing cultural material to which the public had access.
Swimming has attained the status of a cultural marker, denoting eroticism, leisure, endurance, adventure, exploration, and excellence.
For those of you who don't know, and clearly there are a lot of you, the term "transracial" is used in scholarly research, creative writing and cultural work to denote a particular "state of being" for people adopted across race.
Terms such as "Afro-centred" and "Euro-centred," however, are often used to denote the perceived duality in Jamaican cultural traditions and values.
We will begin by counting the number of times certain words and phrases appear in each review, analyzing three aspects of cultural vocabulary: words and phrases denoting particular varietals, descriptions of specific tastes and smells, and general evaluation.
Chosen by a committee of the United Nations' Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Heritage sites denote natural and cultural areas recognized for their universal value to humanity.
The concept of "cultural China" is an expression denoting the cross-regional community of tens of millions of overseas Chinese.
