He Mapped Yard Shrines, Sidewalk Altars and Flowerpots

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The cultural historian Joseph Sciorra, who has died, helped bring “a fieldworker’s eye and an archivist’s discipline” to his studies of Italian American culture.

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Sciorra, Joseph, Deaths (Obituaries), Italian-Americans, History (Academic Subject), Culture (Arts), Colleges and Universities, Calandra, John D, Italian American Institute, New York City