Problems of modernization in Japan and intercultural interaction by L. B. Karelova

“…In applying the approach to the analysis of Japanese modernization, the author brings about a hypothesis concerning mechanisms of cultural adaptation. These mechanisms contributed to reproduce some segments of Western pattern of modernization without destroying indigenous form of rationality and values. …”
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The Caste Connection. On the Sacred Foundations of Social Hierarchy by Jakob De Roover, Sarah Claerhout

“…Basic theological ideas about the connection between false religion and social practice were transformed into topoi of social theorizing, which constituted the caste system as an experiential entity and conceptual unit in the Western cultural experience of India. …”
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Sous couleur de race… by Jean-Luc Jamard

“…The text first provides a broad overview of the quite recent history of Western racialism. Then, with the help of a few examples, it briefly highlights the ethnological need to probe the reciprocity of body perceptions—how “others” perceive us. …”
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Lebanese Cannabis sativa L. extract protects from cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in mice by inhibiting podocytes apoptosis by Alia Khalil, Sahar Al Toufaily, Wassim Shebaby, Marissa El Hage, Dima Mroue, Wissam Faour, Mohamad Mroueh

“…Results Cell viability assay and western blot analysis revealed that COE prevented apoptosis induced by cisplatin in cultured immortalized rat podocytes. …”
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Muslim Bank as a Historical Category: Creating Credit Institutions for Muslims In the First Half of the 20 ^th Century by R. I. Bekkin

“…In the context of competition in the capital markets between Western banks and credit institutions belonging to different religious and ethnic groups, as well as competition of the latter with each other, Muslim banks acted as an instrument for ensuring the economic independence of Muslim communities in a number of countries and regions in the period under review. …”
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De l’« efficacité » symbolique des interdits à leur fonctionnalité écologique by Hélène Artaud

“…During the last few decades, environmental emergencies as well as mixed results of existing conservation systems, urges researchers and managers of protected areas to look up other forms of resource management models in non-Western cultures. Some cultural features, until recently devoid of rationality (considered “pre-logical” or “illogical”), are suddenly invested with a new intelligibility. …”
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Généalogie et usages sociaux de quatre lieux urbains paysagers à Beyrouth by Racha El-Dirani Chebbo

“…Since 1990 a fragile peace still continues and a virtual line still divides this city into two parts : The western part is predominantly Muslim, the eastern part is predominantly Christian. …”
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Les TICE et les arts comme outils de revitalisation des langues minorisées ? by Charlène Chaupré-Berki

“…This article focuses on the linguistic dynamics in the Roya Valley and Western Liguria, exploring local languages and assessing their vitality. …”
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The Impact of Intercultural Perspectives on Environmental Ethics by Molotokienė Ernesta

“…The question is, what are the basic assumptions underpinning the impact of intercultural ethics that would enable the common development and application of a system of universal environmental ethical principles in different regions and cultures of the world? The article hypothesizes that a synthesis of classical Aristotelian virtue ethics, Confucian ethics, and African ubuntu philosophical ethics could underpin intercultural ethics, embodying the universal environmental ethical values of Western and Eastern cultures in intercultural environmental ethics theory.…”
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In Turkısh Thrace by Umut M. Doğan

“… In the Early Iron Age, Turkish Thrace had a cultural identity largely identical to the rest of Thrace. …”
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Samogitia and Lithuania in 13-18th Centuries: the Splendour and the Poverty of Regional (Provincial) Self-Goveming by Eugenijus Saviščevas

“…In the course of this period, Samogitia experienced different patterns of relationship towards Lithuania: hostile western cultural pressure in the Middle Ages; legitimate agreement on the part of Samogitians with the Lithuanian monarchy which provided for the autonomy of Samogitia in 15-16 c.; the merge of Samogitian nobles with the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the end of the 16 c. to 18 c. …”
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Pratiquer une réflexion épistémologique sur les sciences dans une école communautaire du Québec : exemple de tension entre savoirs diffusés et savoirs locaux.  by Hervé Ferrière, Laurence Ferrière

“…We think generally, in most of the western countries, that the pupils and the teachers know difficulties during the teaching of the experimental sciences. …”
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Masques de Chine, visages du nuo : du patrimoine à l’art premier by Sylvie Beaud

“…The masks, collected by government officials after they were banned, made their way into Western private collections. The circulation of these artefacts led to changes in how they were handled, from their patrimonialisation to their “artification”, and also changed the usage of the term “nuo” itself. …”
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L’artisanat touristique du Sud-Ouest des États-Unis. L’exemple des objets collectés par Alphonse Pinart à Santa Fe, à la fin du xixe siècle by Éloïse Galliard

“…This article examines the phenomenon of curios in the South-Western United States, a cultural phenomenon born of the meeting of Amerindians, merchants and tourists. …”
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Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks by Kelly Hübben

“…From an early age, children are taught that animals come in different categories, some of which are good to love, and should be treated with due respect (pets) and others that are good to eat, and, at least in Western cultures, less deserving of our compassion. …”
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A Single Bangle Does Not Jingle: The Twinning Imperative of Ubuntu by Nokuthula Hlabangane

“…Humanity is beset by a number of intractable challenges, most of which can be attributed to the underlying ethos of capitalism. Characterised as “cultures of cruelty” that, together, have wrought untold suffering across the epochs, Ani’s (1993) notion of Yurugu is deployed to begin to account for the proclivity towards this destruction. …”
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“Now Will Someone Kindly Tell Me What Is Her Proper Sphere?” Woman Suffrage, Women’s Political Participation, and the Populist Movement by Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet

“…This article is a political and cultural history of the role of the Farmers’ Alliance and Populism in the crusade for woman suffrage in the 1880s and 1890s. …”
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Devletlerarası İlişkilerde Kurumsallaşma Örneği Olarak Şanghay İşbirliği Örgütü by Tamer KAŞIKCI

“…However, while the effort to institutionalize inter-state relations with these regulations had been reached a higher level of institutionalization in Western societies where permanent and effective organizations such as the EU and NATO were produced, they did not have similar levels in the rest of the world. …”
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FROM AND AFTER 1990: ON LITHUANIAN MENTALITY AND MODERNIZATION by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“…First, soviet industrial totalitarianism was not pieced together as a deviation from the western model of modernization, but, conversely, it represents the most violent enhancement of the latter. …”
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When "new" crops are not really new: California Indigenous communities and research and commercialization of elderberry by Sonja Brodt, Sabine Talaugon, Gwenael Engelskirchen

“…The article “Native blue elderberry in hedgerows bridges revenue and conservation goals” focuses on the commercial potential of western blue elderberry (Sambucus nigra ssp. cerulea) plantings, primarily on private farmland in California. …”
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