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Van Horn, JenniferVirdi, JaipreetThis thesis positions the lancet – a small tool largely associated with bloodletting and other topical incisions – within the material culture of inoculation and early vaccination in the long eighteenth century of the ...
Lo Presti, Rebecca
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Italian American Stuff: A Survey of Material Culture, Migration, and Ethnicity
, 2023 In this article we offer a critical survey of some approaches to material culture studies within an Italian mobility context, with a focus on Italian American history and culture.
Sciorra, Joseph, Ruberto, Laura
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CrossingsThis paper explores how Zora Neale Hurston’s training as an ethnographer impacted her creative work as a fiction writer. It achieves its stated objective by first theorizing upon the topic by juxtaposing Hurston’s ethnographic career and research work ...
Soonha Abro
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Nineteenth-century America through the Eyes of John Gennadius
Historical Review, 2015 The aim of this article is to unfold and analyze the view of America held by John Gennadius [Ioannis Gennadios], one of the most important diplomats of nineteenthcentury Greece.
Marianna D. Christopoulos
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Historia i Polityka, 2019 The aim of the paper is to identify and describe the policy positioningof the Democratic Party and the Republican Party as concerns access to firearms duringthe 2016 presidential election in the USA.
Aleksy Borówka
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Changing Identity Through Material Culture: Folklore, the Fur Trade, and the Internet
, 2015 Many humans, at some point, have the desire to become something or someone they are not. Across the globe, groups of people who want to relive the past form re-enacting communities to engage in living history.
Call, Hadyn B.
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The Myths That Made America [PDF]
, 2014 This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth,
Paul, Heike
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Steps towards operationalizing an evolutionary archaeological definition of culture
, 2011 This paper will examine the definition of archaeological cultures/techno-complexes from an evolutionary perspective, in which culture is defined as a system of social information transmission.
Riede, F
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Evaluation of Honoring the Gift of Heart Health: The Strong Heart Study
Journal of Primary Care & Community HealthDue to the higher rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD), the “Honoring the Gift of Heart Health” CVD risk factor educational program was developed specifically for American Indian communities.
Jessica A. Reese +6 more
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Panorama, 2023 Elaine Y. Yau
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