The cultural meaning of the practice anyway varies across the belt of Africa from Senegal to Somalia, among Muslims and Christians, where it is widely practised.
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Given that words like brand and globalisation are now highly controversial, and that wine is a product loaded with cultural meaning for the French, the new-world lot are bracing for a protectionist backlash.
The aim of the project, which is taking place in cities across the continent, is to sensitise people to the meaning of cultural heritage and interest them in the preservation of ancient monuments.
Religious and cultural organisations can offer people meaning to life beyond the insatiable hunger for rapid economic growth.
The messaging needs to be a cultural movement that will have meaning to millions of people for years to come.
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Culture is a basic need, and cultural heritage a symbolic necessity that gives meaning to human lives connecting past, present and future.
The accusations sparked a debate over cultural differences over the word's meaning.
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Cultural products, goods and services have importance and meaning that go beyond their commercial value.
However, if their mastheads can maintain a cultural prominence, then their business has potentially greater meaning to companies like the one I work for.
"If courts create their own arbitrary definition of marriage as a mere legal contract and cut marriage off from its cultural, religious and natural roots, then the meaning of marriage is lost, and the institution is weakened, " he said.
This convention is the first legal instrument to give recognition to the distinctive nature of cultural activities, goods and services as vehicles of identity, values and meaning.
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