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Material culture
Material Culture DESCRIPTION TECHNOLOGY AND FUNCTION DIFFUSION AND DISTRIBUTION PROCESS HISTORY, ART HISTORY, ARCHITECTURE, AND AMERICAN STUDIES MATERIAL CULTURE AS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM MATERIAL CULTURE AS MEANING AND COGNITION SYSTEM MATERIAL CULTURE AS COMMODITY SYSTEM AGENCY AND... Read more |
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cultural evolution
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Beaker culture
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Ruth Fulton Benedict
Ruth Fulton Benedict 1887-1948, American anthropologist, b. New York City, grad. Vassar, 1909, Ph.D. Columbia, 1923. She was a student and later a colleague of Franz Boas at Columbia, where she taught from 1924. She did fieldwork among Native Americans and studied contemporary European and Asian... Read more |
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Helen Merrell Lynd
Helen Merrell Lynd Sociologist and educator Helen Merrell Lynd (1896-1982) was a coauthor of the classic sociological study Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture. With her husband, Robert S. Lynd, she studied the beliefs and practices of the residents of a small industrial town to... Read more |
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Hohokam
HOHOKAM HOHOKAM is the name given by archaeologists to a prehistoric culture centered along the Salt, Gila, Verde, and Santa Cruz Rivers in the low, hot Sonoran desert of southern Arizona between approximately 300 b.c. and a.d. 1450. The name Hohokam means "those who have gone" in the language of... Read more |
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Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead 1901-78, American anthropologist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Barnard, 1923, Ph.D. Columbia, 1929. In 1926 she became assistant curator, in 1942 associate curator, and from 1964 to 1969 she was curator of ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. After 1954 she... Read more |
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cultural pluralism
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Popular culture
POPULAR CULTURE POPULAR CULTURE. Few theoretical concepts are as value-laden as popular culture, and defining it can be likened to entering a minefield. And yet, it has proved a resilient and useful tool for assessing the attitudes and beliefs of the nonliterate masses in early modern society.... Read more |
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Society for Ethical Culture
ETHICAL CULTURE, SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE, SOCIETY FOR. Felix Adler (1851–1933) founded the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City in 1876. The Society began as a weekly lecture program, but soon developed into a curious combination of a religious organization and a social... Read more |
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Female Gothic fiction, grotesque realities, and Bastard Out of Carolina:...
...The first American Gothic novel...identifies as the Female Gothic Heroine...the literary grotesque functions as...the literary grotesque--which includes...gentility" in her contemporary American South...Gothic and the ... |
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Riding the Lines of Southern Women's Fiction.(Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing...
...the uses of contemporary events in modern...with their contemporary culture (whether New...engagement with contemporary events and...authors. The female model plays...the southern grotesque"--in other...African and Anglo ... |
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Jungle creatures and dancing apes: modern primitivism and Nella Larsen's...
...s novel and contemporary cultural forms...white patriarchal culture found an exemplary...of the black female body, which...discourse, the black female body, whose...of the black female body as sexual...though the white ... |
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Missus Kara E. Walker: Emancipated, and On Tour
...number of American cities in...of African American hustlers...and obese female grotesques (often portrayed...among African Americans, indicate...ambivalence that contemporary American authences...both art ... |
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Japan's Masters of the Perverse
...the view of contemporary Japanese culture as a subversive stew of pop culture and boldfaced...aesthetic of the grotesque with the same...for the American Dance Festival...that gave American audiences...piece is when ... |
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"Doers of the Word": African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North...
...African-American Women Speakers...achievements through contemporary concepts...by African American Women, but...their ethnic culture should disqualify...the black female body as sexualized and grotesque; by a sexist...for ... |
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SOUNDS LIKE HORROR: Alejandro Amenábar's Thesis on Audio-Visual Violence
...recall [s] for the contemporary Spanish audience...via Hollywood from American popular culture, though Amenábar...and slashing the female body to grotesque (im)perfection...a fantasy about American film with its primary... |
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'Short-Sighted': Unrealized Vision
...fantasy trial of female African American stereotypes...history and culture while also...Harrison) is a contemporary woman. She...cinematic black female stereotypes...male and female -- in outlandish...including ... |
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James Baldwin's America: truths both harsh and timeless.(The Cross of...
...word people to Americans, however...extremely talented American 23-year...though, he is as contemporary as Facebook...titled "Mass Culture and the Creative...What the mass culture really reflects ... is the American ... |
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New Essays on 'Wise Blood.'
...latest volume in the American Novel series offers...psycho-analysis, contemporary theology, and pop-culture approaches provide...treatment of the grotesque characters interacting...into speech -- a female voice whose capacity... |
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