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Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Journal of the Early Republic, 2002
Sentimental Materialism presents an account of the disciplinary processes whereby affective relations to objects came to constitute the proprietary logic of liberal subjectivity and subjection in nineteenth-century U.S. culture. Merish reads nineteenth-century literary texts, and the objects in them, as productive sites in which the outlines of this ...
Matthew Backes, Lori Merish
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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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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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Measuring Patient Safety Culture in Romania Using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC)

Current Health Sciences Journal, 2017
Purpose To explore patient safety culture among Romanian staff, using the U.S. Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC). Material and Methods:A cross-sectional study was carried out in six hospitals, located in four Romanian regions (Craiova ...
C. Ţereanu, S. M, Ghelase, G., Sampietro, F. Furtunescu, A. Drăgoescu, A., Molnar, D., Moraru, Camelia Stanescu, Olguţa Alice Gavrilă, A. Pătrașcu, Andrea Loredana Golli, Manuela Dragomir   +15 more
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Texas Cowboy Boots: America's Material Culture Melting Pot

Journal of American Culture, 2023
David Loranger, Lorynn Divita
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Jewish American Material Culture

Abstract This chapter covers the typical methods and objects that Jewish studies scholars use for studying material culture. Scholars tend to examine three types of Jewish objects: Judaica, intimate possessions, and hyperobjects.
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Introduction: Italian American Material Culture: Setting the Ground

2023
According 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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Aspects of early Afro-American material culture: Artifacts from the slave quarters at Garrison Plantation, Maryland

, 1987
E. Klingelhöfer
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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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Introduction: Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

2022
Jesse W. Schwartz, Daniel Worden
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