Material culture refers to the human-made physical objects such as tools, dwellings, clothing, and machines that are part of a society's environment. AI generated definition based on:Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (Second Edition),2012 Add to Mendeley ...
Material culture, in its most basic sense, refers to the part of the world made by humans, from minor artifacts such as a needle or a projectile point to larger and more complex ones, such as a house, a city, a factory; in short, the whole universe of things that surround us and w...
but also on a geographical scale led to their classification into groups which are called ‘cultures’31,32. Usually the definition of an archaeological culture is based on only parts of the material object assembly. For prehistory
And yet this broad sweep across culture and physical environment probably no longer corresponds to our knee-jerk definition of the discipline, which I suspect is far more materialist in nature. Although the term “geography” comes from the Greek meaning “earth’s description,” the components ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) offers a standard definition of QoL as “an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns” [5]. From a place-se...
(2) tourism culture and translation; (3) suggested methods for the translation of tourist materials.2. Brief Introduction of the Translation of Tourist Material2.1 Definition of Tourist MaterialTourist materials, as referred here, are the various materials that introduce Chinese tourism industry and ...
Human geography has an openness to ideas from other academic subject areas, which can change the shape and direction of the discipline. While there had long been a subdiscipline called cultural geography concerned with the mapping of culture areas through the material traces of different cultures, ...
It could be argued that the focus on nomadic material culture in this volume reinforces this age-old bias by suggesting an intrinsic connection with pastoralism. Against this objection, we make the case for a broad definition of nomadism in line with the current literature on mobility in anthrop...
The definition of the Mithraic Saturn as a demiurge and its cosmocratic role alongside its image as the cosmos, elevate it above all other gods. In the Mithraic mystery, Saturn is far above Mithras, who has a semi-human nature. Alvar rightly identifies the growing dichotomy between a human-...
Contractual Relationships Documented information Trust Preferred status Corporate culture Competence Competence residing in individuals Exam results Tacit knowledge The resource transformation system is the firm specific transformation of resources into each other with the use of other resources in journey from ...