Culture in the Marketplace - Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest

"Mullin makes a real contribution by exploring the dynamics of identity and social relations on the one side and knowledge and consumption on the other in her case study of the affluent women who influenced the direction and caste of the Indian art market."--Charles McGovern, National Museum of American History

List of contents

Preface

1. Culture and Cultures

2. Elizabeth Sergeant, Buying and Selling the Southwest

3. Shopping for a Better World in a “City of Ladies”

4. The Patronage of Difference: Making Indian Art “Art, not Ethnology”

5. Culture and Value at the Indian Market

Abbreviations

Notes

References

Index

About the author

Molly Mullin is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Albion College.

Summary

In the early 20th century, a group of elite Eastern-coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. This book provides a narrative of the influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market - as well as the influence these activities had on them.

Product details

• Authors: Molly H. Mullin, Mullin, Molly Mullin, Molly H Mullin, Molly H. Mullin, Molly H. Mullins
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2001
• EAN: 9780822326106
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2610-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: 10 b&w photographs
• Series: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe; Objects/Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology