Gold is part of the cultural tradition in India, in particular, with jewelry having high karat content and often viewed as an investment that is readily convertible to cash.
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Some Africans, indignant at the way western critics denounce the tradition as barbaric and primitive, defend it in the name of cultural tradition.
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Olin Thomas, Affirmation's executive director, says the group provides members with emotional support and a chance to share the cultural aspects of the Mormon tradition with others.
Supporters of bullfighting counter that the sport is a longstanding cultural tradition which Spain must protect.
They inject the narrative of humanity with a fresh shot of adrenaline, and they reinvent the basic vocabulary of a cultural tradition.
In the 1980s, Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, attempted to turn Helena into a bright tourist attraction by creating the Delta Cultural Centre to promote the region's rich blues tradition.
Craftsmanship and performance of the tar and the skills related to this tradition play a significant role in shaping the cultural identity of Azerbaijanis.
The Platform explored the intrinsic linkages between world heritage and intangible cultural heritage, which is embedded in the living tradition of the city and which drives Kyoto's community engagement and deliberate commitment towards disaster-risk prevention in the future.
Others say the tradition of friendship, cultural exchange and royal intermarriage began even earlier, under Charlemagne, before 800.
The ritual is described by David Kelly, chief market strategist for JP Morgan Funds, as tradition that savors of the cultural side of the American economy.
The files proposing candidates for Proclamation also had to provide proof of the full involvement and agreement of the communities concerned, and to include an action plan for the safeguarding or promotion of the cultural spaces or expressions, which should have been elaborated in close collaboration with the tradition bearers.
In particular, the performance of some cultural expressions in a different space or time than that which corresponds to the tradition can lose all its significance for the local communities concerned.
"It will be a humanitarian consideration, so I'm sure the government will look at the whole issue in the context of their great tradition, " said Kalon Tashi Wangdi, religious and cultural affairs minister of the exiled government.
There the row was between the Muslim Hausa majority and the Christian minority over the appointment of a new Hausa emir for the town, and which community's cultural tradition should predominate.
Even now, Sheffield University's Centre for English Cultural Tradition and Language, home of the three editors of this dictionary, is recording a newly dying trade, mining.
Furthermore, as the show's curator, Jessica Morgan, points out, her art didn't fit into the Lebanese cultural establishment's desire for a modern art that referenced Lebanese tradition with subjects such as landscapes that could clearly be rooted in a particular place or a moment.
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The authority said SPM's expertise would add to Guildford's "long tradition of live music", and strengthen the already "wide cultural programme".
But in his eagerness to emphasise the anxiety that the Lispectors must have felt, Mr Moser underplays Brazil's tradition of racial and cultural mixing.
The craft both produces an important component of traditional clothes and is itself testimony to a living cultural tradition.
In his recent Keir Hardie lecture (named after Labour's first leader) David Miliband evoked his party's pre-war tradition of mutual guilds and moral seriousness, rather than the mix of Fabian statism and cultural relativism that has prevailed since.
Today, the dance is a cultural and aesthetic event, connecting townspeople to their agricultural heritage, to Japan's tradition of reliance on rice, and to a group identity transmitted across centuries through folk performance.
The extremists are determined to destroy Pakistan's moderate Sufi tradition - by claiming the exclusive right to fly the banner of Islam and asserting this claim through cultural, educational and violent means.
In Asia "there is a huge cultural need that wealth has to be given from generation to generation, " says Premji who thinks the tradition of philanthropy that is so prevalent in the West will come to India eventually.
U5: After having been included in the heritage inventories of the various counties in which this tradition remains active, the design and practices of bridge building were included on the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage administered by the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture.
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