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Culturally Sensitive Oral Health Educational Materials for Older African Americans

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2007
Abstract: Oral diseases disproportionately affect older Americans from minority populations. Approaches to reducing such disparities include increasing community-based interventions that target vulnerable older adults. To help in developing and implementing such programs, the U.S.
Ann, Slaughter, Lois K, Evans
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Designing Culturally Relevant Educational Materials for Mexican American Clients

The Diabetes Educator, 1987
The California Diabetes Control Program developed a set of pictorial bilingual materials featuring traditional Mexican food patterns to meet a need for culturally relevant diabetes education materials. Culturally appropriate nutrition education materials are not merely translated from English but must be adapted or redesigned, using culturally ...
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Material Things and Cultural Meanings: Notes on the Study of Early American Material Culture

The William and Mary Quarterly, 1996
The women sat among the doomed things, turning them over and looking past them and back. This book. My father had it. He liked a book. Pilgrim's Progress. Used to read it. Got his name in it, right here. And his pipe-still smells rank. And this picture-an angel. I looked at it before the fust three come-didn't seem to do much good.
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The Material Culture of American Utopias

1980
The problem I am interested in is why our culture has produced a set of utopian groups whose mundane objects--material culture--often operate explicitly at a religious as well as a utilitarian level. Both in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries American utopian groups isolated themselves from mainline American society and in doing so often ...
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Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Journal of the Early Republic, 2002
Sentimental Materialism presents an account of the disciplinary processes whereby affective relations to objects came to constitute the proprietary logic of liberal subjectivity and subjection in nineteenth-century U.S. culture. Merish reads nineteenth-century literary texts, and the objects in them, as productive sites in which the outlines of this ...
Matthew Backes, Lori Merish
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Material Culture and Embodiment in American Religion

2015
In recent years, the study of religion has undergone a useful materialization in the work of many scholars, who are not inclined to define it in terms of ideas, creeds, or doctrines alone, but want to understand what role sensation, emotion, objects, spaces, clothing, and food have played in religious practice.
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The Material and Cultural Foundations of American Magazines

2015
This chapter examines the material and cultural foundations that provided the resources necessary for magazine publishing and the demand necessary to sustain a large number of magazines in locations across America. In particular, it explores a number of fundamental changes in American society that supported the explosive growth and increasing variety ...
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"Visible Proofs": Material Culture Study in American Folkloristics

American Quarterly, 1983
human and spiritual relations in those surroundings. Indeed, folk objects and actions are especially striking evidence of people's hidden experiences, values, and mores. The significance humans attach to their objects can be traced to the artifact's ability to be touched and seen, and its three-dimensional, alterable quality.
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Material culture and African-American spirituality at the hermitage

Historical Archaeology, 1997
In this article, artifacts excavated from 19th-century African-American contexts at the Hermitage plantation near Nashville, Tennessee, are examined in light of their possible use in religious ritual, traditional healing, and other behaviors related to spirituality.
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The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture

The William and Mary Quarterly, 1996
I N the late i98os, archaeologists digging in a structure of a former slave quarter at Jordan Plantation near Houston, Texas, uncovered a group of artifacts that had been left in one corner of the building after its occupants had been abruptly evicted and kept from returning to collect their belongings.1 Unremarkable as single objects, the seashells ...
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