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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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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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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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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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6. Native North American Material Culture in the British Imaginary

2018
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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 ...
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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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