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The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
2012This 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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"Visible Proofs": Material Culture Study in American Folkloristics
American Quarterly, 1983human 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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Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Culture of American Mathematics
2016In the early twentieth century, growing use of numbers, combined with burgeoning high school enrollments and expanding technical education, encouraged the expansion of college mathematics teaching in the United States. It was an era when like-minded educators banded together in professional associations.
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American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field
The William and Mary Quarterly, 1998Shirley Teresa Wajda +2 more
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Introduction: Italian American Material Culture: Setting the Ground
2023According to Christopher Tilley, “The object world is [...] absolutely central to an understanding of the identities of individual persons and societies” (61). Objects and commodities serve as tangible representations of our past, present and future; they function as a medium that enables individuals and communities to express themselves, articulating ...
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American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue
Western Folklore, 1987John B. Wolford, Simon J. Bronner
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The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture by Scott Herring
American Studies, 2016THE HOARDERS: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture. By Scott Herring. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 2014.Scott Herring's The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture is a provocative book that interrogates contemporary psychology's treatment of hoarding as a mental illness.
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Science, Play, and the Material Culture of Twentieth-Century American Boyhood
2020This chapter uses the example of the child’s chemistry set to explore the way that American children’s material culture has shaped, and been shaped by, changing perceptions of acceptable risk in the home environment in the twentieth century. Chemistry sets, first sold in the United States in the 1910s, changed over the twentieth century, as companies ...
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Living in a Material World: Canadian and American Approaches to Material Culture
The Journal of American Folklore, 1993Dorothy Noyes, Gerald R. Pocius
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Native American Diabetes Project: Designing Culturally Relevant Education Materials
The Diabetes Educator, 1997J S, Carter +7 more
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