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Siegfried Giedion, Modernism and American Material Culture

Journal of American Studies, 1994
The Swiss architectural critic and historian of technology, Siegfried Giedion, was born in 1893 and died in 1968. Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (1941) and Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History (1948) are his two most well-known books and both came out of time spent in the United States between ...
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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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Material Culture and Embodiment in American Religion

2015
Abstract 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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6. Native North American Material Culture in the British Imaginary

2018
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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 relevant
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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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Material Culture and the Study of American Life

The Journal of American History, 1979
Perry R. Duis, Ian M. G. Quimby
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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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The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture

2012
This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén Darío, Reynolds argues that extra-textual elements – such ...
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American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue

Western Folklore, 1987
John B. Wolford, Simon J. Bronner
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