Made in the U.S.A.: The Construction of Academic Knowledge and the Limits of National Culture

Poetics Today ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee E. Heller
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Made In

scholarly journals Nation in a sheep’s coat: The Icelandic sweater

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gudrun Helgadottir
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
National Culture ◽  
English Only ◽  
National Symbol ◽  
Icelandic Sheep ◽  
Current Design ◽  
Bank Collapse ◽  
Wool Industry ◽  
Made In

The Icelandic sweater is presented and received as being traditional—even ancient—authentically Icelandic and hand made by Icelandic women from the wool of Icelandic sheep. Even so, the sweater type, the so-called ‘Icelandic sweater’ in English, only dates back to the mid-20th century and is not necessarily made in Iceland nor from indigenous wool. Nevertheless, the sweater is a successful invention of a tradition (Hobsbawm & Ranger, 1983), popular among Icelanders and tourists alike since its introduction in the mid-20th century. It has gained ground as a national symbol, particularly in times of crisis for example in the reconstruction of values in the aftermath of the Icelandic bank collapse of 2008. I traced the development of the discourse about wool and the origins of the Icelandic sweater by looking at publications of the Icelandic National Craft Association, current design discourse in Iceland and its effect on the development of the wool industry. I then tied these factors to notions of tradition, authenticity, national culture, image and souvenirs.

Thomas Cole and Jacksonian America: The Course of Empire as Political Allegory

Prospects ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 65-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Miller
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Landscape Art ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
Political Allegory ◽  
Thomas Cole ◽  
Made In ◽  
Jacksonian America

Thomas Cole (1801–48), is best known for his role in placing the landscape genre in America on a secure artistic and intellectual foundation. Associating the beginnings of landscape art with the concurrent appearance of popular democracy, scholars have generally assumed that Cole shared the cultural and nationalistic premises of the native landscape school that developed under this influence. Other inaccurate assessments have followed, in particular the belief that Cole's political sympathies were democratic. To take this for granted, however, is to overlook not only the anti-Jacksonian sentiment that Cole occasionally vented in his journals and letters, but also the veiled political and topical content of his wellknown cycle, The Course of Empire. This neglect of the political content of Cole's art is part of a broader tendency to approach American landscape art as a genre lacking social or political content, as a transparent reflection of nature's central role in national culture. The reappraisal of such assumptions begins with Cole, whose ideological challenge to the next generation of painters was made in the language of landscape. This challenge will be considered briefly in my conclusion.

scholarly journals THE IDENTITY OF RUSSIAN CIVIL LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF CONCEPTUALIZING THE CIVIL LAW CULTURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 602-623
Author(s):  
V. A. Bublik ◽  
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M. N. Semyakin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Legal Consciousness ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Culture Methods ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
Made In

Introduction: the problems related to the identity of Russian civil law as considered in connection with the legal culture of civil law are practically unexplored. The purpose of the study was to define the criteria characterizing the identity of Russian civil law and their relevance as well as to present arguments for their application in the conceptualization of the civil law culture. Methods: a variety of research methodologies associated with the consideration of the criteria characterizing the identity of social phenomena as a factor of the national culture conceptualization; a variety of approaches, including philosophical, psychological, sociological, cultural, and historical ones. Results: we have compiled a list of criteria characterizing the civil law identity and correlated with the theoretical concept of ‘civil law culture’, and conducted a monitoring of these criteria on the basis of search queries made in social networking services, platforms and applications such as VKontakte, Twitter, and YouTube. The monitoring results indicate high demand for legal content and information, effective practices of conceptualizing the civil law culture among the users. The interest in the content concerning the civil law culture is associated with the increasing legal consciousness of people, with the current situation characterized by variability and intensive reformation of civil legislation, which entails continuously updating knowledge about legislation. Conclusions: the identity of civil law is represented by a number of aspects, one of which is the civil law culture, possessing educational potential that is significant in the development of personal legal culture, its cognitive and practice-oriented constituents.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Application of National Cultural Elements in the Design of Industrial Products

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xianfa Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Development Trend ◽  
Industrial Product ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Industrial Products ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The World ◽  
Made In China ◽  
Made In

With the continuous development and progress of China's industry, it has become the only country in the world that has all the industrial categories in the United Nations Industrial Classification. China's industrial products have gradually changed from "Made in China" to "Design in China". The integration of Chinese national cultural elements into industrial product design has also become the future development trend in the field of design. This paper will analyze the application of national culture in industrial product design, and discuss how to better integrate the two with practical cases to promote the continuous development of the industry.

scholarly journals Nostalgia for the Empire and the modern image of Spain: inspired by Carrera & Carrera jewelry house collection «Treasures of the Empire»

2015 ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Koroleva
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
National Values ◽  
Culture Heritage ◽  
Symbolic Interpretation ◽  
Modern Image ◽  
Made In

The article touches upon peculiar for the Spaniards nostalgia for the Spanish imperial past. Information society is characterized by growing influence of the symbolic capital of national culture alongside with importance of international prestige of national values. The main topic is the exploration of the “made in” effect and its influence on modern image of Spain. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the application of semiotic analysis of contemporary jewelry art visualizing the Golden Age of Spanish culture heritage, in order to express the importance of symbolic interpretation of the archetypal image in technologies of national branding.

Spectrophotometric measurements of objective-prism spectra

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 118-119
Author(s):  
Th. Schmidt-Kaler
Keyword(s):  
Progress Report ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Objective Prism ◽  
Made In

I should like to give you a very condensed progress report on some spectrophotometric measurements of objective-prism spectra made in collaboration with H. Leicher at Bonn. The procedure used is almost completely automatic. The measurements are made with the help of a semi-automatic fully digitized registering microphotometer constructed by Hög-Hamburg. The reductions are carried out with the aid of a number of interconnected programmes written for the computer IBM 7090, beginning with the output of the photometer in the form of punched cards and ending with the printing-out of the final two-dimensional classifications.

Surface Structure in Microtomed Sections Caused by Glass and Diamond Knives

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 456-457
Author(s):  
J. Temple Black ◽  
William G. Boldosser
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Epoxy Resin ◽  
Carbon Coating ◽  
Surface Damage ◽  
Body Angle ◽  
Normal Manner ◽  
Bottom Side ◽  
Cutting Direction ◽  
Made In ◽  
Diamond Knife

Ultramicrotomy produces plastic deformation in the surfaces of microtomed TEM specimens which can not generally be observed unless special preparations are made. In this study, a typical biological composite of tissue (infundibular thoracic attachment) infiltrated in the normal manner with an embedding epoxy resin (Epon 812 in a 60/40 mixture) was microtomed with glass and diamond knives, both with 45 degree body angle. Sectioning was done in Portor Blum Mt-2 and Mt-1 microtomes. Sections were collected on formvar coated grids so that both the top side and the bottom side of the sections could be examined. Sections were then placed in a vacuum evaporator and self-shadowed with carbon. Some were chromium shadowed at a 30 degree angle. The sections were then examined in a Phillips 300 TEM at 60kv.Carbon coating (C) or carbon coating with chrom shadowing (C-Ch) makes in effect, single stage replicas of the surfaces of the sections and thus allows the damage in the surfaces to be observable in the TEM. Figure 1 (see key to figures) shows the bottom side of a diamond knife section, carbon self-shadowed and chrom shadowed perpendicular to the cutting direction. Very fine knife marks and surface damage can be observed.

Iron storage sites in the myocardium as revealed by cytohistochemistry

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 394-395
Author(s):  
M. Ashraf ◽  
F. Thompson ◽  
S. Miki ◽  
P. Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Tissue ◽  
Coronary Perfusion ◽  
Intracellular Iron ◽  
Ether Anesthesia ◽  
Intense Staining ◽  
Iron Storage ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Rat Hearts ◽  
Cacodylate Buffer ◽  
Made In

Iron is believed to play an important role in the pathogenesis of ischemic injury. However, the sources of intracellular iron in myocytes are not yet defined. In this study we have attempted to localize iron at various cellular sites of the cardiac tissue with the ferrocyanide technique.Rat hearts were excised under ether anesthesia. They were fixed with coronary perfusion with 3% buffered glutaraldehyde made in 0.1 M cacodylate buffer pH 7.3. Sections, 60 μm in thickness, were cut on a vibratome and were incubated in the medium containing 500 mg of potassium ferrocyanide in 49.5 ml H2O and 0.5 ml concentrated HC1 for 30 minutes at room temperature. Following rinses in the buffer, tissues were dehydrated in ethanol and embedded in Spurr medium.The examination of thin sections revealed intense staining or reaction product in peroxisomes (Fig. 1).

Microanalysis of precipitates in a ferritic steel

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 618-619
Author(s):  
J.M. Titchmarsh
Keyword(s):  
Ferritic Steel ◽  
Particle Identification ◽  
Energy Dispersive ◽  
Objective Lens ◽  
Ferritic Steels ◽  
Replica Technique ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
Made In

The advances in recent years in the microanalytical capabilities of conventional TEM's fitted with probe forming lenses allow much more detailed investigations to be made of the microstructures of complex alloys, such as ferritic steels, than have been possible previously. In particular, the identification of individual precipitate particles with dimensions of a few tens of nanometers in alloys containing high densities of several chemically and crystallographically different precipitate types is feasible. The aim of the investigation described in this paper was to establish a method which allowed individual particle identification to be made in a few seconds so that large numbers of particles could be examined in a few hours.A Philips EM400 microscope, fitted with the scanning transmission (STEM) objective lens pole-pieces and an EDAX energy dispersive X-ray analyser, was used at 120 kV with a thermal W hairpin filament. The precipitates examined were extracted using a standard C replica technique from specimens of a 2¼Cr-lMo ferritic steel in a quenched and tempered condition.

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