(Theorists who regard art as an invention of eighteenth-century Europe will, of course, regard this way of putting the matter as tendentious, on the grounds that entities produced outside that culturally distinctive institution do not fall under the extension of "art" and hence are irrelevant to the art-defining project (Shiner 2001).
Distinctive Welsh institutions, apart from those concerned with the Welsh language, are hard to pinpoint.
In the Accademia gallery hangs Titian's Pieta, his introspective last work praying for his own and his son's survival in another plague outbreak, while the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni and Scuola di San Rocco are among the city's distinctive religious institutions whose walls and ceilings groan with great art.
The broad range of possibilities whereby land use, land ownership and manpower were combined in changing political circumstances presents a challenge to the organizing of a stable and continuous supply of water This paper views the subak local/regional watershed organization of integrated water resource management, as a distinctive Balinese institution as a response to these circumstances.
The article concludes in observing that the federal courts and the local police, though housed under the same criminal justice system, are two distinctive social control institutions, each with its own political legitimacy base and social utility functions.
Also, the Committee on Social Thought, an institution distinctive of the university, was created.
Social structure, in sociology, the distinctive, stable arrangement of institutions whereby human beings in a society interact and live together.
But as venues for a huge array of events on university campuses, student unions are unique institutions with distinctive responsibilities.
They accomplished this, outside the communist bloc, through a system of open trade, alliances and collective security in which everyone stood to thrive, with America as its guarantor.America also benefits from its distinctive political ideology and institutions.
Thus, in general, 'mysticism' would best be thought of as a constellation of distinctive practices, discourses, texts, institutions, traditions, and experiences aimed at human transformation, variously defined in different traditions.
