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Full-Text Articles in American Studies
Looted Cultural Objects, Elena Baylis
Looted Cultural Objects, Elena Baylis
Articles
In the United States, Europe, and elsewhere, museums are in possession of cultural objects that were unethically taken from their countries and communities of origin under the auspices of colonialism. For many years, the art world considered such holdings unexceptional. Now, a longstanding movement to decolonize museums is gaining momentum, and some museums are reconsidering their collections. Presently, whether to return such looted foreign cultural objects is typically a voluntary choice for individual museums to make, not a legal obligation. Modern treaties and statutes protecting cultural property apply only prospectively, to items stolen or illegally exported after their effective dates. …
"A Most Disgraceful, Sordid,Disreputable, Drunken Brawl": Paul Cadmus And The Politics Of Queerness In The Early Twentieth Century, Samuel W D Walburn
"A Most Disgraceful, Sordid,Disreputable, Drunken Brawl": Paul Cadmus And The Politics Of Queerness In The Early Twentieth Century, Samuel W D Walburn
The Purdue Historian
This paper examines the work of Paul Cadmus from 1930 to 1948. Over the span of nearly three decades, Cadmus's art evolved from covert depictions of queer culture to an explicit depiction of the politics of queerness in immediate postwar America. Cadmus’s legacy is unique because his art documents the shifting conceptualizations of gender and sexuality in the first half of the twentieth century. He is also notable because he so masterfully maneuvered the liminal space between private and public, painting subversive images immersed in covert queerness early in his career and later using queer art as a tool of …
French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat
French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat
Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters
The research I have conducted for my French Major Senior Thesis is a culmination of my passion for and studies of both French language and culture and the history and practice of Visual Arts. I have examined, across the history of art, the representation of women, and concluded that until the 20th century, these representations have been tools employed by the makers of history and those at the top of the patriarchal system, used to control women’s images and thus women themselves. I survey these representations, which are largely created by men—until the 20th century. I discuss pre-historical …
Northwest Coast Native American Art: The Relationship Between Museums, Native Americans And Artists, Karrie E. Myers
Northwest Coast Native American Art: The Relationship Between Museums, Native Americans And Artists, Karrie E. Myers
Museum Studies Theses
Museums today have many responsibilities, including protecting and understanding objects in their care. Many also have relationships with groups of people whose items or artworks are housed within their institutions. This paper explores the relationship between museums and Northwest Coast Native Americans and their artists. Participating museums include those in and out of the Northwest Coast region, such as the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the Burke Museum, the Royal British Columbia Museum, the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Museum. Museum professionals who conducted research for some of these museums included Franz Boas, …
Interpreting, Stephanie Jo Kent
Interpreting, Stephanie Jo Kent
Doctoral Dissertations
What do community interpreting for the Deaf in western societies, conference interpreting for the European Parliament, and language brokering in international management have in common? Academic research and professional training have historically emphasized the linguistic and cognitive challenges of interpreting, neglecting or ignoring the social aspects that structure communication. All forms of interpreting are inherently social; they involve relationships among at least three people and two languages. The contexts explored here, American Sign Language/English interpreting and spoken language interpreting within the European Parliament, show that simultaneous interpreting involves attitudes, norms and values about intercultural communication that overemphasize information and discount …
Silent Subversions, Derek Dubois
Silent Subversions, Derek Dubois
Derek M Dubois
Explores the concept of spectatorship in relation to gender in the earliest period of film history in the United States known as the silent era. Argues that a new mode of spectatorship emerges for women during the 1920s, which employs to advantage the extra-diegetic components of spectacle in theater design, new customized genres for female filmgoers, fandom, and exotic male film stars, such as Rudolph Valentino. Focuses primarily on feminist film theory and on cultural studies as methodological models.
Silent Subversions, Derek Dubois
Silent Subversions, Derek Dubois
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Explores the concept of spectatorship in relation to gender in the earliest period of film history in the United States known as the silent era. Argues that a new mode of spectatorship emerges for women during the 1920s, which employs to advantage the extra-diegetic components of spectacle in theater design, new customized genres for female filmgoers, fandom, and exotic male film stars, such as Rudolph Valentino. Focuses primarily on feminist film theory and on cultural studies as methodological models.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Christian B. Newswanger, Wayne E. Homan, Robert I. Schneider, John E. Stinsmen, Martha S. Best, Cecelia Whitman, Edna Eby Heller, David W. Thompson, Edward S. Gifford Jr.
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 20, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, Christian B. Newswanger, Wayne E. Homan, Robert I. Schneider, John E. Stinsmen, Martha S. Best, Cecelia Whitman, Edna Eby Heller, David W. Thompson, Edward S. Gifford Jr.
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Flight of the Distelfink
• The Newswangers, Interpreters of Amish Life
• The Sorrow Song of Susanna Cox
• Country Butcher: An Interview with Newton Bachman
• "Swing Your Partner": Folk Dancing at the Festival
• Festival Highlights
• Folk Festival Program
• Leaving the Festival with Thoughts of Food
• Spindrift: The Old Dog Churn
• Candy Making in the Dutch Country
• Gee, Haw and Geehaw
• The Evil Eye in Philadelphia
• The Country School: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 20
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Alexander Marshall, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Susanna Brinton, Edna Eby Heller, George L. Moore, Phil R. Jack
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 13, No. 4, Earl F. Robacker, Alexander Marshall, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Susanna Brinton, Edna Eby Heller, George L. Moore, Phil R. Jack
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Stoneware: Stepchild of Early Pottery
• The Days of Auld Lang Syne
• Grout-Kootch, Coldframe, and Hotbed
• Memories of Three Spring Farm
• Folk Festival Program
• Saffron Cookery
• My Childhood Games
• Western Pennsylvania Epitaphs
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Frances Lichten, William H. Newell, John Cummings, Mary Jane Hershey, Don Yoder
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Frances Lichten, William H. Newell, John Cummings, Mary Jane Hershey, Don Yoder
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Pennsylvania Chalkware
• John Landis: "Author and Artist and Oriental Tourist"
• Schuylkill Folktales
• Painted Chests from Bucks County
• A Study of the Dress of the (Old) Mennonites of the Franconia Conference 1700-1953
• Research Needs in Pennsylvania Church History
• About the Authors
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 2, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Vincent R. Tortora, John F. Morman, Earl F. Robacker, Howard H. Brinton, John Cummings, Edna Eby Heller, Phil R. Jack, Andrew S. Berky
Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 9, No. 2, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Vincent R. Tortora, John F. Morman, Earl F. Robacker, Howard H. Brinton, John Cummings, Edna Eby Heller, Phil R. Jack, Andrew S. Berky
Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine
• Barracks
• The Courtship and Wedding Practices of the Old Order Amish
• Rufus A. Grider
• Knife, Fork and Spoon: A Collector's Problem
• Quaker Meeting-Houses
• The Bannister-back Chair
• Pies in Dutchland
• Amusements in Rural Homes Around the Big and Little Mahoning Creeks, 1870-1912
• About the Authors
• Buckskin or Sackcloth? A Glance at the Clothing Once Worn by the Schwenkfelders in Pennsylvania