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The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture

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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Jewish American Material Culture

Abstract This chapter covers the typical methods and objects that Jewish studies scholars use for studying material culture. Scholars tend to examine three types of Jewish objects: Judaica, intimate possessions, and hyperobjects.
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The Material Culture of American Utopias [PDF]

, 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 ...
Leone, Mark P.
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Unseeing sight: blindness in American art and material culture

, 2022
This dissertation explores how the loss or absence of sight fundamentally shaped experiences of making and understanding art objects between the 1870s and 1890s in the United States. In doing so, it examines how artworks, together with visual spectacles and scientific technologies, made visible the physiological and epistemological limitations of ...
Nassif, Kristen
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American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field.

Journal of American History, 1998
Shirley Teresa Wajda, Ann Smart Martin, J. Ritchie Garrison   +2 more
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Interpreting things: Material culture studies and American religion

Religion, 1991
Colleen Mcdannell
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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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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 Challenge of Native American Art and Material Culture

Museum Anthropology, 1990
Vast quantities of published and archival information on Native American/First Nation visual arts, crafts, and material culture exist. Researchers must be knowledgeable about numerous disciplines if they are is to perform a minimally adequate job when working on specific research problems.
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