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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 Object as Subject: The Role of Museums and Material Culture Collections in American Studies

American Quarterly, 1974
students of American Studies, one important resource has been largely neglected. The museum, as a repository of cultural artifacts-objects and documents-remains for the most part a rich untapped lode of valuable learning experiences in American culture.
James W. Lea, Linna Funk Place, Joanna Schneider Zangrando, John Lovell   +3 more
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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 ...
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A Retrospective View of Science, Technology, and Material Culture in Early American History [PDF]

The William and Mary Quarterly, 1984
H TISTORY has many mansions indeed, as well as "suburbs and shantytowns, trailer parks and condominiums," and early American history has its share of most of them.' In this essay I want to bring into view the peculiar story of a few of these edifices, selected because they are the ones within which I have lived and labored.
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Collaborative Strategies for the Preservation of North American Indian Material Culture

Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, 1992
Abstract Collections management, exhibitions, and research are areas in which collaboration will help the museum as well as provide a role for Native American people in the preservation and interpretation of their cultural heritage. Using the repatriation work of the Museum of New Mexico as a case study, the author suggests that the repatriation ...
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Charter Members of the MAA and the Material Culture of American Mathematics

2016
In 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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One Hundred Percent Americanism: Material Culture and Nationalism, Then and Now

International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2014
This article examines the ways that specific interest groups within the American nation use material culture to attempt to define the parameters of a shared national identity. Case studies are drawn from the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–30) and the early years of the 21st century (2000–12). Analysis of landscapes and artifacts excavated
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Negative heritage: the material-cultural politics of the American haunted history tour

Journal of Cultural Geography, 2020
This article assesses the defining features and cultural significance of the haunted history tour as it has come to be practiced in American urban spaces.
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The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture by Scott Herring

American Studies, 2016
THE 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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American Material Culture: The Shape of the Field

The William and Mary Quarterly, 1998
Shirley Teresa Wajda, Ann Smart Martin, J. Ritchie Garrison   +2 more
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