Jennifer Kramer

Switchbacks

Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Switchback explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling and buying Nuxalk art fit into attempts to regain control of heritage?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780774812276
• ISBN-10: 0774812273
• Artikelnr.: 26330719

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Kramer holds a joint position at the University of British Columbia as Curator of Northwest Coast Ethnology at the Museum of Anthropology and as Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

Maps Acknowledgments Prologue: The Repatriation of the Nuxalk Echo Mask 1 Introduction 2 The History of Bella Coola: A History of Theft 3
Selling Out
or
Buying In
? Identity Politics and Art Objectification in Bella Coola 4 Privileged Knowledge versus Public Education: Tensions at Acwsalcta, the Nuxalk Nation
Place of Learning
5 Physical and Figurative Repatriation: Case Studies of the Nuxalk Echo Mask and the Nuxalk Sun Mask 6 Theft Inside and Out: The Making of a Theory 7 Conclusions: Articulating Nuxalk National Identity Notes References Index