Sentence examples for material cultural from inspiring English sources

Material cultural researchers should continue to address correlated change in items of material culture within their wider cultural context (Bettinger 2009; Eldredge 2009).

Dr. Eldredge began to ask himself if similar patterns could be expected in the evolution of material cultural artifacts.

"We're not about geopolitics, we're not about minefields, we're about trying to do the best and the right thing for the long term for material cultural heritage," Mr. Snyder said.

Just as the detailed study of ancient arthropods led Dr. Eldredge to discern an unsuspected pattern in biological evolution, so he hopes that by studying cornets he can find "a meta-theoretical, structural framework for a general theory of material cultural evolution".

At the same time, archaeologists rightly asserted that there were a million reasons why patterns of material cultural remains might change — such as the adoption of new technologies, new religious beliefs, or processes of adapting to changing environments — other than the arrival of new outside population mass to replace the whoever the current sitting tenants happened to be.

It was not long before scholars interested in material cultural phenomena took notice.

Gwen Floyd, a 23-year-old Texan, transferred in from Brown, where she had studied material culture and cultural history.

Otis T. Mason, curator of ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution (1884 1908), suggested one such method in an 1887 article published in Science: a systematic comparison of individual traits accomplished without reference to the materials' cultural and environmental contexts.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is one of the important non-material cultural heritages of the Chinese nation.

A typology of 19 different material and non-material, cultural landscape service indicators is established and, in semi-structured interviews, community stakeholders map these indicators individually on an aerial image.

Either way, Cohen clearly didn't know much about the Pussyhat Project, which made those "pink hats" into a material-cultural phenomenon that could end up earning a lasting place in the annals of political symbolism.