aboriginal
(adjective)
First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous.
Examples of aboriginal in the following topics:
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Aboriginal Australian Art
- Aboriginal Australian art can be traced back at least 30,000 years and is one of the longest continuously practiced artistic traditions in the world.
- Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back at least 30,000 years; the rock art of Australian Aborigines is one of the longest continuously practiced artistic traditions in the world.
- Other Aboriginal artists have incorporated western mediums into their work, such as Emily Kngwarreye, Rover Thomas and Freddy Timms.
- Aboriginal art in Australia can be traced back at least 30,000 years.
- Differentiate between the periods and regional styles of Aboriginal Australian rock paintings
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Minorities
- Assimilation can have negative implications for national minorities or aboriginal cultures, in that after assimilation the distinctive features of the original culture will be minimized and may disappear altogether.
- Many indigenous peoples, such as First Nations of Canada, Native Americans of the US, Taiwanese aborigines, and Australian Aborigines have mostly lost their traditional culture (most evidently language) and replaced it with the dominant new culture.
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Pacific Coast Culture
- The mild climate and abundant natural resources along the Pacific Coast of North America allowed a complex aboriginal culture to flourish.
- The mild climate and abundant natural resources, such as cedar and salmon, made possible the rise of a complex aboriginal culture.
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Introduction to multiple regression exercises
- The summary table below shows the results of a linear regression model for predicting the average number of days absent based on ethnic background (eth: 0 - aboriginal, 1 - not aboriginal), sex (sex: 0 - female, 1 - male), and learner status (lrn: 0 - average learner, 1 - slow learner).
- (c) Calculate the residual for the first observation in the data set: a student who is aboriginal, male, a slow learner, and missed 2 days of school.
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Culture and Society
- Someone who uses culture in this sense might argue that classical music is more refined than music by working-class people, such as jazz or the indigenous music traditions of aboriginal peoples.
- Early colonial definitions of culture equated culture and civilization and characterized aboriginal people as uncivilized and uncultured.
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Colonial Australian Art
- The visual arts have a long history in Australia, from ancient Aboriginal rock paintings to colonial landscapes to contemporary movements of today.
- John Lewin and Harriet and Helena Scott were among the first professional natural-history illustrators, while artists such as Augustus Earle focused on ethnographic portraiture of Aboriginal Australians.
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Functions of Religion
- It follows, then, that less complex societies, such as the Australian Aborigines, have less complex religious systems, involving totems associated with particular clans.
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Pacific Arts Festival
- Taiwan was allowed to send a delegation of 80 performers and artists, most of whom were Taiwanese aborigines, to the Festival of Pacific Arts for the first time in 2008.
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The Robinson Crusoe Example
- In 1719, the perspective of an English writer was that aboriginals of various lands were subordinate.
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Political Art: Race and Ethnicity in the 1990s
- Contemporary Indigenous Australian art (also known as Contemporary Aboriginal Australian art) is the modern art work produced by Indigenous Australians.
- It is generally regarded as beginning with a painting movement in 1971 that spawned widespread interest across rural and remote Aboriginal Australia in creating art, while contemporary Indigenous art of a different nature also emerged in urban centres; together they have become central to Australian art.