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Teaching Material Culture and Chinese Gardens at American Colleges [PDF]
ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, 2012 The paper reflects on the experience of designing and teaching a course on material culture and Chinese gardens. Involving traditional philosophy, ethics, religion, painting, calligraphy, craft, literature, architecture and horticulture, a classical Chinese garden can be considered a microcosm of Chinese culture.
Han Li
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A quantitative workflow for modeling diversification in material culture
PLoS ONE, 2020 Questions about the evolution of material culture are widespread in the humanities and social sciences. Statistical modeling of long-term changes in material culture is less common due to a lack of appropriate frameworks.
E. Gjesfjeld +5 more
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Dolphins at the British Museum: Zoomorphic Calusa Sinkers [PDF]
Papers from the Institute of Archaeology, 2015 The subject of everyday or “mundane” artistic expression in Native American material culture does not always take into account the idea that aesthetic design can have explicit practical as well as decorative function.
Cushing F H +14 more
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Material and Visual Cultures of Religion in the American South [PDF]
MAVCOR Journal, 2019 William R. Ferris
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The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture
Journal of American History, 2015 S. Herring
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John Huston’s Moby-Dick as educational material on American culture
STEM Journal, 2012 Ok Rae Kim
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Nabokov's Dystopia: Bend Sinister, America and Mass Culture [PDF]
, 2009 “I am as American as April in Arizona,” Nabokov claimed in a 1966 interview. Although he repeatedly emphasized his American citizenship and the affection he held for his adopted nation, my argument is that his 1947 novel, Bend Sinister, offers us an ...
Anderson's, Larmour, WILL NORMAN
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Gothic Matters: Introduction [PDF]
, 2016 Once considered escapist or closely linked to fantasy, the Gothic genre (or mode, as scholars increasingly call it) has recently begun to be explored for its material concerns and engagement with real-world matters.
Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
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American Innovation: Preserving and Providing Access to 80 Years of Industrial Design History [PDF]
, 2014 From washing machines to computers, and sports cars to space capsules, America's infatuation with invention has fueled industrial design. Design history helps us understand American culture in a whole new way.
Amy Shimshon-Santo +2 more
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Forging Insights: Indian Agency Blacksmiths of the American Frontier [PDF]
, 2020 Following the War of 1812, the United States government sought to more directly deal with the Native tribes in the American interior. The establishment of Indian agency blacksmith shops was one significant component of this endeavor.
Novey, Adam G
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