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Italian American Material Culture: A Directory of Collections, Sites, and Festivals in the United States and Canada
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Italian American Material Culture: A Directory of Collections, Sites, and Festivals in the United States and Canada

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With a growing interest in ethnicity, there has also been an increasing interest in the study of material culture, as a means of explicating traditional and popular culture. Moreover, the decades leading up to the Columbian Quincentenary have been marked by the establishment of new Italian American museums, cultural centers, and archival collections. This publication, the fourth in Greenwood’s series of Material Culture Directories, complements existing Italian American and Italian Canadian bibliographies and guides to collections by focusing on material culture and photographic collections, historic sites and festivals. Following an introductory overview, chapter 1 provides information on objects, photographics images and, in a few cases, oral histories held by museums and other repositories in the United States and Canada. Chapter 2 lists churches, houses, commercial buildings, wineries, monuments a few towns and neighbourhoods and other sites associated with Italian American history. Entries range form Manhattan’s Casa Italiana to the Italian Rock ovens in Washington State. Chapter 3 covers over 100 religious feasts and secular festivals in which material culture or foodways play an important part in the lives of Italian Americans. Each chapter is arranged alphabetically by geographic location.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Date
22 January 1992
Pages
224
ISBN
9780313272004

With a growing interest in ethnicity, there has also been an increasing interest in the study of material culture, as a means of explicating traditional and popular culture. Moreover, the decades leading up to the Columbian Quincentenary have been marked by the establishment of new Italian American museums, cultural centers, and archival collections. This publication, the fourth in Greenwood’s series of Material Culture Directories, complements existing Italian American and Italian Canadian bibliographies and guides to collections by focusing on material culture and photographic collections, historic sites and festivals. Following an introductory overview, chapter 1 provides information on objects, photographics images and, in a few cases, oral histories held by museums and other repositories in the United States and Canada. Chapter 2 lists churches, houses, commercial buildings, wineries, monuments a few towns and neighbourhoods and other sites associated with Italian American history. Entries range form Manhattan’s Casa Italiana to the Italian Rock ovens in Washington State. Chapter 3 covers over 100 religious feasts and secular festivals in which material culture or foodways play an important part in the lives of Italian Americans. Each chapter is arranged alphabetically by geographic location.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Date
22 January 1992
Pages
224
ISBN
9780313272004