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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 ...
D. Tallack
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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.
A. Martin
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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.
Simon J. Bronner
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The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture

The 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 ...
Patricia M. Samford
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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.
A. Russell
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Material culture and social death: African-American burial practices

Historical Archaeology, 1995
Orlando Patterson has proposed that the institution of slavery caused the “social death” of slaves, in that the inherited meanings of their ancestors were denied to them through control of their cultural practices by slave owners and overseers. A survey of archaeological evidence for mortuary practices in African-American society, however, shows that ...
Ross W. Jamieson
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