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Ruth Benedict
Benedict, RuthBIBLIOGRAPHYWORKS BY BENEDICTSUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHYRuth Fulton Benedict (1887–1948), originator of the configurational approach to culture, was a mature woman when she entered anthropology. At Vassar College, from 1905 to 1909, her main training was in English literature. Then,... Read more |
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Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson 1958– Educator, writer Young Spirit Tainted by Racism Religion Led to Education and Culture Wrote on Malcolm X’s Life and Lessons Explored Gangsta Rap in Academia Rose Through Academic and Literary Worlds Selected writings Sources Hailed as one of a group of... Read more |
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cultural pluralism
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Ethnobotany
ETHNOBOTANY ETHNOBOTANY. Ethnobotany is the study of the relationship between people and plants. This interdisciplinary field includes studying plants as wild foods and as agricultural crops; as constructs for houses and modes of transportation; as baskets, pottery, and art; as clothing and types... Read more |
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Hellenism
Hellenism the culture, ideals, and pattern of life of ancient Greece in classical times. It usually means primarily the culture of Athens and the related cities during the Age of Pericles. The term is also applied to the ideals of later writers and thinkers who draw their inspiration from ancient... Read more |
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Negritude
NEGRITUDE. An aesthetic and literary movement inaugurated in the 1930s that centers on the creative potential of black consciousness, negritude was one of the premier cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. Curiously, negritude has no originating text as such; it took root and flourished in... Read more |
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Vernon Louis Parrington
Vernon Louis Parrington 1871-1929, American literary historian and scholar, b. Aurora, Ill. His cultural interpretation of American literature was an expression of his belief in democratic idealism. His Main Currents in American Thought (3 vol., 1927-30) greatly influenced subsequent literary... Read more |
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Crafts
CraftsHistory of the study of technologyThe social organization of craftsDevelopment of craft associationsBIBLIOGRAPHYThe term “craft” derives from the Anglo-Saxon crseft, meaning “strength, skill, or cunning,” in contrast to “art,” which usually implies an intention of producing beauty or pleasure.... Read more |
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James Boswell and the Uses of Criticism.(Critical essay)
...in Boswell's literary life have tended...eighteenth-century literary culture. Scholars have focused...formation of national literary canons, on its...social practice by contrasting it with the commercial...national in their ... |
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Amerikanismus, Americanism, Weill. Die Suche nach kultureller Identität in...
...country and culture. Though much...however, do not address Weill's America...with separate contrasting introductions...Society and Culture," perhaps...includes essays by literary scholars, historians...theorist. The ... |
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Amerikanismus, Americanism, Weill. Die Suche nach kultureller Identitat in...
...country and culture. Though much...however, do not address Weill's America...with separate contrasting introductions...Society and Culture," perhaps...includes essays by literary scholars, historians...theorist. The ... |
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Women Signifiers
...reconstruct a culture-wide conversation...variety of literary and nonliterary...outpouring of contrasting views by men...early modern culture, namely...useful both to literary scholars of the period...England. To ... |
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Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War...
...Print: Women's Literary Responses to...literature and culture (especially...women writers' literary responses to...canonical and whose literary "quality" may...attempting to address' (p. 3...heavily on prior scholars such as ... |
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Culture, Society and Politics in Modern African Literature: Texts and Contexts
...Joseph Obi. Culture, Society and...literature. Two scholars from different...Tanure Ojaide a literary critic and poet...The book addresses students and...sociology within literary criticism in...Expression and contrasting ... |
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The Production of English Renaissance Culture.
...originally presented at a literary conference called...of witches do not address causal questions...that identifies "culture" with civilization...prison conditions. Scholars who have worked...the violence of culture. Other essays ... |
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T. S. Eliot and the Premio Camoes: a brief honeymoon and anointment of...
...Portuguese culture. In this...consultation. Eliot scholars and biographers...incapacity to address the problems...a foreign literary prize. The...jury for a literary prize -especially...views. By contrasting what a few ... |
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History and Culture
...her 2001 presidential address to the Royal Historical Society...postwar era to the present, contrasting the attitudes assumed in Carolingian...limited participation of British scholars in post-war scholarship...analysis, expertly juxtaposing literary and ... |
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Forward.(cultural studies)
...include Italian culture. The anthology...criticism of scholars trained mainly...intellectualist concept of culture which has affected...whole range of contrasting ideologies...reflections on mass culture and the role...will have to ... |
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