Shanghai impressions: mix of modern and traditional architecture Looking down on the city, it is easy to see the juxtaposition of the traditional and modern. The night skyline is one of our first Shanghai impressions A few more interesting places we visited We visited several traditional sites ...
A large island, with seating for five, houses a prep sink and microwave. A new opening space between the kitchen and dining room includes a butler pantry/bar in one section and a large kitchen pantry in the other. Through the door to the left of the main sink is access to the new ...
To begin with, the Cherokee tribe was one of the three primary Native American tribes in South Carolina that called themselves “the real people.” Upward in the mountains, they lived in these villages called “longhouses.” For the girls, their daily lives consisted of doing work in the fi...
Conservation efforts focus on preserving its genetic diversity and promoting sustainable cultivation practices to prevent loss of this underutilized crop in its native habitat [61]. 2.1.5. Amaranthus hybridus Amaranthus hybridus is a leafy vegetable with a long history of cultivation and consumption in...
Thousands of years ago, aloe and frankincense have been the most famous plant products in the global trade from southern Yemen, Socotra and Oman [15], followed by gums, dyes and myrrh, as well as the use of tree wood in the construction of doors, windows and roofs of houses and palaces...
Then it is an aspect of culture. The Herskovits' definition can become more useful if we distinguish material culture (tools, roads, houses) from subjective culture (categorizations, beliefs, attitudes, self-definitions, role definitions, norms, values (Triandis, 1972). ...
(mid-Yangtze Valley); they themselves discovered foxtail, boomcorn and rice cultivated together in two coastal north Fujian sites at 2000–1500 BCE. However, foxtail at Chengtoushan was a minor cereal introduced from the north into a long-established Yangtze Valley rice tradition. It would be ...
In the North American Northwest (extending through British Columbia and even southern Alaska) rectangular plank houses were built by native Americans using redwood, cedar, and further north, spruce. Using planks up to 4" thick, some of these homes were secured by ropes so that they could be ...
Furthermore, we need to think long term. Christianity is our heritage. Certainly a majority of committed and knowledgeable liberals will never become Christians, but they will die one day, which is why we need to make a major effort to appeal to the young. This is a naturalifyou think of...
If the remains of dead things are houses for the long-gone, keeping house is very important. Bones treated irreverently can cause all sorts of spiritual havoc. In Roger Pinckney’s Blue Roots, he mentions how African burial practices involved two funerals: one right after the death, and one...