Chiefly Feasts

Chiefly Feasts PDF Author: Aldona Jonaitis
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9781550544800
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Languages : en
Pages : 300

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The magnificent collection of art made by the Kwakiutl Indians of northern Vancouver Island and the nearby mainland, assembled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the American Museum of Natural History, lies at the heart of 'Chiefly Feasts.' More than one hundred objects from the American Museum and other collections are illustrated in full color, and extended captions incorporating information provided by many members of the Kwakiutl community describe their history and acquisition.

Chiefly Feasts

Chiefly Feasts PDF Author: Aldona Jonaitis
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN: 9781550544800
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
The magnificent collection of art made by the Kwakiutl Indians of northern Vancouver Island and the nearby mainland, assembled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for the American Museum of Natural History, lies at the heart of 'Chiefly Feasts.' More than one hundred objects from the American Museum and other collections are illustrated in full color, and extended captions incorporating information provided by many members of the Kwakiutl community describe their history and acquisition.

The Power of Feasts

The Power of Feasts PDF Author: Brian Hayden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in societies ranging from the prehistoric to the modern.

Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America

Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America PDF Author: Elsa M. Redmond
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703351
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Chiefly Feasts

Chiefly Feasts PDF Author: Aldona Jonaitis
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ISBN: 9780888947437
Category : Indian art
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Tales of Ghosts

Tales of Ghosts PDF Author: Ronald W. Hawker
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774850868
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The years between 1922 and 1961, often referred to as the “Dark Ages of Northwest Coast art,” have largely been ignored by art historians, and dismissed as a period of artistic decline. Tales of Ghosts compellingly reclaims this era, arguing that it was instead a critical period during which the art played an important role in public discourses on the status of First Nations people in Canadian society. Hawker’s insightful examination focuses on the complex functions that Northwest Coast objects, such as the ubiquitous totem pole, played during the period. He demonstrates how these objects asserted the integrity and meaningfulness of First Nations identities, while simultaneously resisting the intent and effects of assimilation enforced by the Canadian government’s denial of land claims, its ban of the potlatch, and its support of assimilationist education. Those with an interest in First Nations and Canadian history and art history, anthropology, museology, and post-colonial studies will be delighted by the publication of this major contribution to their fields.

Sensible Objects

Sensible Objects PDF Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: Berg
ISBN: 1845203240
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged position of the sense of vision in the analysis of material culture. Contributors argue that vision can only be understood in relation to the other senses. In this they present another challenge to the assumed western five-sense model, and show how our understanding of material culture in both historical and contemporary contexts might be reconfigured if we consider the role of smell, taste, feel and sound, as well as sight, in making meanings about objects.

Chiefly Feasts

Chiefly Feasts PDF Author: Douglas Cole
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : American Museum of Natural History
ISBN: 9780295971155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A collection of art (masks, head-dresses, blankets, coppers, feast dishes, and other Kwakiutl ceremonial objects) made by the Kwakiutl Indians of northern Vancouver Island and the nearby mainland.

Shadow House

Shadow House PDF Author: Jonathan Meuli
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134434588
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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In this fascinating study of Northwest Coast art, Jonathan Meuli has not only outlined a history of ideas associated with Northwest Coast art objects from pre-Contact time to the present day, but has also examined the ways in which the physical location and contexts in which the objects are produced has helped to determine their meanings. Locating his linear historical narrative within a wider exploration of ethnographic art ideas, which emphasizes links across cultures, Meuli examines the differing attitudes towards Northwest Coast material culture, particularly as these are embodied in oral mythic narratives, collection methods and architectural constructions.

Privileging the Past

Privileging the Past PDF Author: Judith Ostrowitz
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 9780774807531
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Ostrowitz is an art historian and an artist who lives in New York, is affiliated with Yale University, and is a former assistant curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Here she presents a thorough, scholarly exploration of the complex issues of authenticity, tradition, and creative translation-carefully considering Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses, and drawing on an extensive body of interviews with tribal leaders, artists, and artisans known and respected in both Native and non-Native venues. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.