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Dolphins at the British Museum: Zoomorphic Calusa Sinkers [PDF]

open access: yesPapers 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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Nabokov's Dystopia: Bend Sinister, America and Mass Culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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SOME AMERICAN, POLISH, GERMAN, CZECH AND SORBIAN PROVERBS ABOUT A WOMAN’S PLACE AND THEIR HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

open access: yesProverbium, 2022
This paper will concentrate firstly on American and European culture in the 19th and 20th centuries to illustrate the cultural context in which proverbs about women were used, which refer to the following themes: women’s work, a woman’s place is in the ...
Emilia Anna Deutsch
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Ethnoscience A Bridge To Back To Nature [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Ethnoscience is a paradigm emerged in anthropology in mid-1950s, as a further result of the attempts made by some American anthropologists to redefine the concept of culture that will be in line with the new model they adopt for their study and ...
Putra Heddy S. A.
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Work ethics through the lens of American and British linguocultures: dominant cultural values

open access: yesЯзык 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.
doaj   +1 more source

Gothic Matters: Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Art for an Undivided Earth: The American Indian Movement Generation

open access: yesPanorama, 2019
Jessica Horton brings a wealth of contextual material and a compelling theoretical frame to her discussion of the influence of Native American history, culture, and politics on late twentieth-century American art.
Louise Siddons
doaj   +1 more source

A quantitative workflow for modeling diversification in material culture.

open access: yesPLoS 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.
Erik Gjesfjeld   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

La Ilustración sobre el río Hudson: ¿tenían filosofía los Mohawks?

open access: yesNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2020
In the historiography the Americanization has long been described as a dual process. First, Americanization has been described as the result of a long process of acculturation, of interbreeding, of métissage which would have affected both indigenous ...
Stéphane Van Damme
doaj   +1 more source

American Innovation: Preserving and Providing Access to 80 Years of Industrial Design History [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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