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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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Teaching Material Culture and Chinese Gardens at American Colleges
The 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 ...
Li Han
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Latin American Art, Visual and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century: An Introduction
Arts, 2021 The temporal frame of this Special Issue of Arts—the long eighteenth century—comprises a complex period of development in the Spanish colonies of Latin America that reverberates throughout the region’s visual culture [...]
Lauren Beck, Alena Robin
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Review of the Мonograph by S.G. Vorkachev “ Deep into Symbols: an Image in Language and Culture” [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2023 The monograph uses the material of scientific and artistic discourses, lexicography and corpus linguistics to study metaphorical transfer and symbolization in language and culture, and also analyzes the verbal embodiment of the idea of sovereignty in the
Maria S. Milovanova
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“Is Cleopatra Black?”: Examining Whiteness and the American New Woman
Humanities, 2021 In the 1920s and 1930s, conceptions of the “New Woman” and Egyptomania shaped American culture. Employing methods of critical race art history and material culture studies, I focus on a 1925 Callot Soeurs dress and silk pajamas (c.
Angelica J. Maier
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The Western as a Genre of Cultural Mobility
Humanities, 2023 The Western is, in many respects, the essential American film genre, “a cornerstone of American identity” (Kitses). Yet, despite its distinctly American character, the genre has exerted a fascination all over the world.
Martin Holtz
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Arts, 2023 This article examines how notions of “material” and “materiality” were infused, both technically and discursively, into American landscape painting in the late nineteenth century.
Noam Gonnen
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Identity Crisis as the Main Motive of Contemporary Native American Literature [PDF]
Future Human Image, 2021 This research offers a linguacultural analysis of the main ideas and goals of institutions for the preservation of the culture and language of the Indigenous peoples of America, through the publication of relevant research in thematic journals and ...
Sergii Rudenko, Yaroslav Sobolievskyi
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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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Work ethics through the lens of American and British linguocultures: dominant cultural values
Язык и текст, 2016 The article throws light on the peculiarities language consciousness functions and the way it reflects values of a certain linguocultural community. In particular, the article reveals the specificity of the verbalization of work ethics in American and ...
Ivanova S.V.
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