cultural continuity

collocation in English

meaningsofculturalandcontinuity

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cultural
adjective
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/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us
/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of ...
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continuity
noun[U]
uk
/ˌkɒn.tɪˈnjuː.ə.ti/us
/ˌkɑːn.tənˈuː.ə.t̬i/
the fact of something continuing for a long period of time without being changed ...
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(Definition ofculturalandcontinuityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It follows thatculturalcontinuity, when it can be demonstrated, demands explanation in similar terms.
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A sense ofculturalcontinuityis a situational achievement, requiring per formers or "guardians" to re-create a relevance for old meanings in new contexts.
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The wider implications of his magisterial study regardingculturalcontinuitythreatened the whole metanarrative and were ignored.
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Many are undertaken primarily to conserveculturalcontinuity.
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So-called 'nonstandard' usage may be assumed to be a manifestation of authentic community and ofculturalcontinuity, which in many senses it is.
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In this instance, changes in settlement, architecture, and material culture between pre-collapse and post-collapse groups are so dramatic that noculturalcontinuitycan be found between the two.
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Hervik's history of these categories, which demonstrates their changing values, is pivotal to his argument against the academic belief in facileculturalcontinuity, especially in terms of ethnic identity.
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Archeological evidence has demonstrated that theculturalcontinuityis unbroken from prehistory to the present.
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Socialization is thus the means by which social andculturalcontinuityare attained.
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He did not understand their system of identification andculturalcontinuity.
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Some tribal groups have been unable to document theculturalcontinuityrequired for federal recognition.
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This suggests someculturalcontinuitybetween the two sites.
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Echoes of this supposedculturalcontinuitymay still be found in popularisations of the history that follows.
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This understanding, they claimed, ties like-minded people from similar cultural backgrounds together and provides a sense ofculturalcontinuitywith the philosophical past.
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These individuals and groups play an increasingly important role, as participants and as audience, helping professional archaeologists celebrate archaeological research and to markculturalcontinuity.
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Even for a time marriage outside the colonia was forbidden in order to ensure ethnic andculturalcontinuity.
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Despite considerableculturalcontinuity, life was not without significant changes.
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However, such evidence from skeletal remains was brushed aside as a new movement developed in archaeology from the 1960s, which stressedculturalcontinuity.
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