Food preparation is one of mankind's most culture-bound activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Culture: We are culture-bound in how we think and in inventing the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

To rejuvenate it we must be less culture-bound, more informed and realistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Order in Asia] Reference

Many "lessons" are being drawn from Vietnam, most of them profoundly culture-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam] Reference

But because they are both culture-bound, the truth may elude them both. (1992, p. 207).    From Wordnik.com.  ['Victims of Memory': An Exchange] Reference

This culture-bound syndrome is possibly linked to vitamin A toxicity hypervitaminosis A.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wordly Wise] Reference

This exemplifies the vacuous, culture-bound ineptitude of American Force Projection today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » The Military’s PowerPoint Problem] Reference

Aptitude was class-and culture-bound, and therefore biased, but ostensibly, reasoning is not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Is Coming!] Reference

I log about 200 miles a day on my route JUST IN LA COUNTY, and I see it everywhere, and yes, it is culture-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Pat Buchanan’s Anti-Hispanic Rhetoric Echoes Earlier Anti-Immigrant Hysteria] Reference

The study team suggested that repressed memory is "a culture-bound syndrome and not a natural process of human memory.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of Meredith Maran's "My Lie: A True Story of False Memory"] Reference

During his quest, he riffs on the idea of "culture-bound syndromes" and "the interplay among culture, mind, and disease.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

Reading this collection, for those of us culture-bound West or East, brings science fiction and fantasy to a fresh awakening.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Review at Tor.com: Tides from the New Worlds | Spontaneous ∂erivation] Reference

So the knowledge-persuasion-decision sequence proposed in our model of the innovation-decision process may be somewhat culture-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diffusion of Innovations] Reference

If Western psychiatric leaders, and politicians, are culture-bound, they will have little idea how to deal successfully with their opposite numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychiatry and Politics] Reference

If you have the power, do you invade, replace him, and set up your very culture-bound notion of proper governance--at the cost of tens of thousands of lives?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference

Nutrition guidance is, inescapably, culture-bound: where there is starvation, more calories are good; where there is hyperendemic obesity, more calories are bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Katz, M.D.: New Dietary Guidelines: A Physician's Perspective] Reference

Although commonly used in a colloquial and less-violent sense, the phrase is particularly associated with a specific sociopathic culture-bound syndrome in Malaysian culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Running Amok “My Way”] Reference

I've only skimmed it but it clearly offers some interesting perspectives, in particular on whether the concept of resurrection is one that is culture-bound rather than universal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the Biblioblogosphere] Reference

If the right to free expression was limited by time and culture-bound circumstances, such statements could never be made, and in time the right itself would be completely obliterated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asma Uddin: Even Controversial Views Should Be Protected by Freedom of Speech] Reference

The article starts with a discussion on the shaky psychiatric concept of a culture-bound syndrome - a supposedly culturally specific mental illness - and describes the curious syndrome in detail in the Results section of the paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: April 2005 Archives] Reference

Western psychological illnesses as not 'culture-bound.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuroanthropology] Reference

The Psychiatric Times piece suggests that there are at least 200 culture-bound syndromes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuroanthropology] Reference

I wanted to find out more about some very particular culture-bound syndromes mentioned, most of which were unbeknownst to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [RushPRnews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution] Reference

Indeed, in 1994 the American Psychiatric Association introduced an appendix of 25 culture-bound syndromes into the fourth edition of its.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

Literature currently available is couched in esoteric language from which it is difficult to discriminate useful techniques from culture-bound ritual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference

It turns out that junkyards, which, like massive garbage dumps, are among the topographic blisters of consumerism, are actually just culture-bound syndromes.    From Wordnik.com.  [World War 4 Report - Deconstructing the War on Terrorism] Reference

Some of Kapur's finest comic moments (mild, bittersweet, like a good vermouth) involve culture-bound westerners: the virtuous horror that can't accept the routine nature of arranged marriage, even that of the couple you're talking to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference

But just as soon as this appendix appeared, many scientists contested the notion that culture-bound syndromes are unique conditions, arguing that some or perhaps even all might be variants of disorders already known in Western culture by different labels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

If so-called culture-bound syndromes-mental illnesses that are specific to a particular society-are merely variations of Western disorders, then mental health professionals in Western countries can safely continue to draw on existing knowledge about familiar disorders to treat them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

This condition is most often seen in Eskimo women and is linked to vitamin A toxicity (hypervitaminosis A) found in the native Eskimo diet which consists primarily of organ meats, arctic fish and mammal liver. is a contagious, culture-bound syndrome that occurs predominantly among the.    From Wordnik.com.  [RushPRnews - Newswire & Global Press Release Distribution] Reference

\ "culture-bound\" - they are specific to one culture only and rarely appear elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Is a "culture-bound syndrome" -- a creation of Western culture sometime in the 19th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Devices of the Mind] Reference

'culture-bound syndromes' usually tends to treat other people's syndromes as 'culture-bound,'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuroanthropology] Reference

Or are they culture-bound?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-11] Reference

"It's a culture-bound syndrome.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Deadly Noodle] Reference