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Culture 2
The document discusses the history and development of identity and culture in the United States from the 1500s to the 19th century. It describes how immigrants from England in the 1500s brought their religious and political traditions and established colonies. In the 1700s, figures like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson represented a shift toward natural philosophy and scientific, economic, and political perspectives. The 19th century saw the rise of writers like Washington Irving and the Transcendentalist movement, which emphasized self-development and finding divinity through nature rather than societal or religious institutions. Overall, the document traces the mixing and collision of diverse identities and traditions that have continuously produced new forms of culture in American life over time.
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- 1. THE UNITED STATES Sandra Vega Carrero
- 2. “North America isa place where different identities mix and collide, and assemblage a multiplicity, constantly producing and reproducing new selves and transforming old ones” Bradbury, 1981 p. 20
- 3. Divisions in Americanlife Class Ethnicity Gender Race
- 4. Divisions in Americanlife Class Ethnicity Gender Race It is difficult to talk about a single and closed notion of identity and values
- 5. Historical Political Traditions The music in the early America Was created as people from Other countries immigrated to America
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- 8. Immigrants from England England Colonists Religious persecution
- 9. Immigrants from England England Colonists Religious persecution Monarchism Establish a state governed by religious principles
- 10. Immigrants from England England Colonists Religious persecution King GOD
- 11. Immigrants from England England Colonists Adventure Restrictions of European Societies “Freedom”
- 12. First writers ofearly America Reflected their English backgrounds Subject was mostly religious
- 13. First writers ofearly America Poems and preparatory meditations before the Lord’s Supper
- 14. XVIII Century BenjaminFranklin Tomas Jefferson
- 15. XVIII Century Theirperspectives changed
- 16. XVIII Century NaturalWorld Spiritual World
- 17. XVIII Century NaturalWorld Spiritual World Knowledge (5) Senses
- 18. XVIII Century NaturalWorld Spiritual World Knowledge (5) Senses Social scientific Economic Political
- 19. XVIII Century NaturalWorld Spiritual World Knowledge (5) Senses Social scientific Economic Political Religious
- 20. XVIII Century NaturalWorld Spiritual World Knowledge (5) Senses Social scientific Economic Political New Culture in American life
- 21. XVIII Century NaturalWorld Spiritual World Knowledge (5) Senses Social scientific Economic Political New Culture in American life Materialism
- 22. XIX Century WashingtonIrving
- 23. XIX Century WashingtonIrving Created short stories
- 24. XIX Century WashingtonIrving Created short stories Humorist Folklorist
- 25. XIX Century WashingtonIrving Created short stories Humorist Folklorist Entertain
- 26. XIX Century WashingtonIrving
- 27. XIX Century Transcendentalism Immanuel Kant
- 28. XIX Century Transcendentalism The mind isn’t a blank tablet or sheet of blank paper. KANT
- 29. XIX Century Transcendentalism The mind isn’t a blank tablet or sheet of blank paper. KANT
- 30. XIX Century Transcendentalism KANT The mind contains certain universally acknowledged truths, and from birth instinctively reads this truths rather than writing them.
- 31. XIX Century Transcendentalism Self - development INDIVIDUAL, not Society
- 32. XIX Century Transcendentalism Self - development “Humans could experience divinity directly through nature, a spiritual practice in which no mediation, such as through the churches, was needed” INDIVIDUAL, not Society
- 33. XIX Century Transcendentalism Auto - didactism Not Imitation or repetition