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The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture [PDF]

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 ...
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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 Embodiment in American Religion

2015
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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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.
Lois K Evans, Ann Slaughter
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Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Journal of the Early Republic, 2001
Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and NineteenthCentury American Literature. By Lori Merish. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 389. Illustrations. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95.) Almost twenty-five years ago, in The Feminization of American Culture (1977), Ann Douglas posited a connection between antebellum sentimental ...
Matthew Backes, Lori Merish
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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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"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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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 ...
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Science, Play, and the Material Culture of Twentieth-Century American Boyhood

2020
This 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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