Ancestral
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But still, one fundamental trait of the
ancestral
personality persists in our aesthetic cravings: the beauty we find in skilled performances.
I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no
ancestral
ties.
I'm thinking here, for example, of customs like
ancestral
worship, of a very distinctive notion of the state, likewise, a very distinctive notion of the family, social relationships like guanxi, Confucian values and so on.
You heard that occasionally children are born with tails, and it's because it's an
ancestral
characteristic.
Family members had bribed officials to interrupt the hereditary transfer of land by having the brothers declared dead, allowing them to inherit their father's share of the
ancestral
farmland.
So essentially, the shape of the building that you're born into is the shape of the structure which carries you to your
ancestral
resting place.
There's a saying in Toraja that all people will become grandparents, and what this means is that after death, we all become part of the
ancestral
line that anchors us between the past and the present and will define who our loved ones are into the future.
The women in the zone, now in their 70s and 80s, are the last survivors of a group who defied authorities and, it would seem, common sense, and returned to their
ancestral
homes inside the zone.
Here's a theory: Could it be that those ties to
ancestral
soil, the soft variables reflected in their aphorisms, actually affect longevity?
That difference between our
ancestral
past and our abundant present is the reason that Dr. Yoni Freedhoff of the University of Ottawa would like to take some of his patients back to a time when food was less available, and it's also the reason that changing the food environment is really going to be the most effective solution to obesity.
This is an early-19th-century drawing by another British military officer of such a ceremonial, where the king was involved, and the king's job, one of the large parts of his job, apart from organizing warfare and things like that, was to look after the tombs of his ancestors, and when a king died, the stool that he sat on was blackened and put in the royal
ancestral
temple, and every 40 days, the King of Asante has to go and do cult for his ancestors.
I think that I missed this, an
ancestral
record, a valuation of what I don't know, what I haven't seen.
We've done this now with over 30 tribes, mapped, managed and increased protection of over 70 million acres of
ancestral
rainforest.
New Zealand's Maori want to see returned
ancestral
tattooed heads from museums everywhere.
JC: When we made the visit to my
ancestral
lands, I wish I could have shown my parents what we found there.
This is the global diaspora; people have left their
ancestral
lands, and they're sending money back to their families at home.
People are reeling from all sorts of unnatural disasters, displacing them from their
ancestral
homes and leaving them without a chance at making a decent living.
And then, multicellular organisms began to populate all these
ancestral
oceans, and they thrived.
In my family, I am the child who is most interested in the story of who we are, in our traditions, in the knowledge about
ancestral
lands.
From the head to the feet, the fossils present a mosaic of primitive, or ancestral, and derived or more modern-like features.
It's all about the question, "What if?" Still, not all science fiction has the same
ancestral
bloodline, that line being Western-rooted science fiction, which is mostly white and male.
Around the world, people are reviving
ancestral
languages and rebuilding their cultures.
As far as we know, language reclamation began in the 1800s when, at a time of rising antisemitism, Jewish communities looked to their
ancestral
language, Hebrew, as a means of cultural revival.
That was Cornish, the
ancestral
language of Cornwall, which today is technically a county in southern England.
The Tunica-Biloxi tribe of Louisiana is reviving their
ancestral
language.
And as the internet grows, expanding media access and creation, preserving and reclaiming
ancestral
languages is now more possible than ever.
So what are your
ancestral
languages?
And we then wanted to see whether we can match our
ancestral
maps with digital maps made somewhere in the world.
Gerald (Richard Carlson) and Kitty (Veronica Hurst) have just finished celebrating their engagement announcement in France with family and friends, when he receives a letter asking him to visit an
ancestral
castle located in Scotland.
The film is also quite interesting from an anthropological angle in terms of how the documented phenomenon quickly takes root, consumes these good peoples' identities 24-7, organically grows, divides, mutates, rapidly spans generations and groups, sweeps up even infants who intuitively jack right in to the main line, and seems to strongly channel ancient
ancestral
rites straight into South Central, where it weaves a crazy web of hope and ecstatic optimism through the beleaguered community like beautiful wildflowers in a cracked asphalt lot.
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