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A remarkable volume that makes accessible for the first time and in one place a broad selection of more than 250 years of writing on Northwest Coast Native art.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction: The Idea of Northwest Coast Native Art /
Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and ¿i-¿e-in1 Interpreting Cultural Symbols of the People from the Shore /
Daisy Sewid-Smith2 Hilth Hiitinkis -- From the Beach /
¿i-¿e-in3 Haida Cosmic /
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas4 From Explorers to Ethnographers, 1770-1870 /
Ira Jacknis5 Thresholds of Meaning: Voice, Time, and Epistemology in the Archaeological Consideration of Northwest Coast Art /
Andrew Martindale6 Objects and Knowledge: Early Accounts from Ethnographers, and Their Written Records and Collecting Practices, ca. 1880-1930 /
Andrea Laforet7 "That Which Was Most Important": Louis Shotridge on Crest Art and Clan History /
Judith Berman8 Anthropology of Art: Shifting Paradigms and Practices, 1870s-1950 /
Bruce Granville Miller9 Going by the Book: Missionary Perspectives /
John Barker10 The Dark Years /
Gloria Cranmer Webster11 Surrealists and the New York Avant-Garde, 1920-60 /
Marie Mauzé12 Northwest Coast Art and Canadian National Identity, 1900-50 /
Leslie Dawn13 Art/Craft in the Early Twentieth Century /
Scott Watson14 Welfare Politics, Late Salvage, and Indigenous (In)Visiblity, 1930-60 /
Ronald W. Hawker15Form First, Function Follows: The Use of Formal Analysis in Northwest Coast Art History /
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse16 Democratization and Northwest Coast Art in the Modern Period: Native Emissaries, Non-Native Connoisseurship, and Consumption /
Judith Ostrowitz17 History and Critique of the "Renaissance" Discourse /
Aaron Glass18 Starting from the Beginning /
Marianne Nicolson19 Shifting Theory, Shifting Publics: The Anthropology of Northwest Coast Art in the Postwar Era /
Alice Marie Campbell20 Value Added: The Northwest Coast Art Market since 1965 /
Karen Duffek21 "Where Mere Words Failed": Northwest Coast Art and Law /
Douglas S. White22 Art for Whose Sake? /
¿i-¿e-in23 "Fighting with Property": The Double-Edged Character of Ownership /
Jennifer Kramer24 Museums and Northwest Coast Art /
Aldona Jonaitis25 Collaborations: A Historical Perspective /
Martha Black26 Pushing Boundaries, Defying Categories: Aboriginal Media Production on the Northwest Coast /
Kristin L. Dowell27 Art Claims in the Age of
Delgamuukw /
Charlotte Townsend-Gault28 Stop Listening to Our Ancestors /
Paul Chaat Smith29 NWC on the Up ... Load: Surfing for Northwest Coast Art /
Dana Claxton30 The Material and the Immaterial across Borders /
Charlotte Townsend-GaultWorks Cited
Index
About the author
Edited by Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and ¿i-¿e-in
Summary
A remarkable volume that makes accessible for the first time and in one place a broad selection of more than 250 years of writing on Northwest Coast Native art.
