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Book Synopsis The Power of Feasts by : Brian Hayden
Download or read book The Power of Feasts written by Brian Hayden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Chiefly Feasts written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chiefly Feasts written by Aldona Jonaitis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chiefly Feasts written by Aldona Jonaitis and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America by : Elsa M. Redmond
Download or read book Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South America written by Elsa M. Redmond and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Douglas Cole Publisher :Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : American Museum of Natural History ISBN 13 :9780295971155 Total Pages :300 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Chiefly Feasts written by Douglas Cole and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : American Museum of Natural History. This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Tales of Ghosts by : Ronald W. Hawker
Download or read book Tales of Ghosts written by Ronald W. Hawker and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Feasts written by Michael Dietler and published by Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Ancient Near East to Modern-Day North America, communal consumption of food and drink punctuates the rhythms of human societies. Feasts serve many social purposes, establishing alliances for war and marriage, mobilizing labor, creating political power and economic advantages, and redistributing wealth." "This collection of fifteen essays combines ethnographic and archaeological perspectives to examine the cultural, economic, and political importance of feasts, considering traditional and modern practices from Africa, Southeast Asia, the Near East, Polynesia, New Guinea, and the Americas. Recording types and quantities of food, preparation techniques, and numbers of participants, the ethnographers provide a much-needed behavioral context and theoretical framework for these intricate social interactions and attempt to link feasting practices to physical evidence. The archaeologists examine the locations of roasting pits, hearths, and refuse deposits or the presence of special decorative ceramics and infer the ways in which feasting traditions reveal social structures of lineage, clan, moiety, and polity." "As practices for organizing ancient and modern societies, feasts are intimately implicated in the processes of social and cultural change. This book makes these rituals more accessible to archaeological analysis and interpretation."--Jacket.
Download or read book Chiefly Feasts 92 written by AMNH Staff and published by . This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chiefly Feasts by : American Museum of Natural History Staff
Download or read book Chiefly Feasts written by American Museum of Natural History Staff and published by . This book was released on 1997-08-31 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1991-1992 the American Museum mounted Chiefly feasts, a major temporary exhibition on the Kwakiutl potlatch ... The thirty photographs in this book of postcards represent works of potlatch art displayed in Chiefly feasts."--Introduction by Stanley A. Freed.
Book Synopsis Contesting Art by : Jeremy MacClancy
Download or read book Contesting Art written by Jeremy MacClancy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art is a major political weapon of our times. Today, peoples around the world use art to boost their own identity and to attack the ways others represent them. At a time of increasing intercultural exchange, art has become a primary means through which groups reinforce their challenged sense of culture.This pioneering book breaks with the tradition of the anthropology of art as the depoliticized study of aesthetics in exotic settings. Transcending artificial distinctions between the West and the Rest, it examines the increasingly significant relations among art, identity and politics in the modern world.Among the themes investigated by the contributors: - how African painters undermine racist stereotypes yet remain dominated by the Western art market - the role of anthropology museums in the perpetuation of the Western market in 'tribal art' - the internal and external political disputes underlying the 'repatriation' of cultural property.
Download or read book Routes written by James Clifford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn't stand still, that reveals itself en route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in the marketplace and the museum. In this collage of essays, meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and its difficult companion, translation, as openings into a complex modernity. He contemplates a world ever more connected yet not homogeneous, a global history proceeding from the fraught legacies of exploration, colonization, capitalist expansion, immigration, labor mobility, and tourism. Ranging from Highland New Guinea to northern California, from Vancouver to London, he probes current approaches to the interpretation and display of non-Western arts and cultures. Wherever people and things cross paths and where institutional forces work to discipline unruly encounters, Clifford's concern is with struggles to displace stereotypes, to recognize divergent histories, to sustain "postcolonial" and "tribal" identities in contexts of domination and globalization. Travel, diaspora, border crossing, self-location, the making of homes away from home: these are transcultural predicaments for the late twentieth century. The map that might account for them, the history of an entangled modernity, emerges here as an unfinished series of paths and negotiations, leading in many directions while returning again and again to the struggles and arts of cultural encounter, the impossible, inescapable tasks of translation.
Download or read book The Leofric Missal written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Shell Money written by Mikael Fauvelle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where, when, and under what circumstances did money first emerge? This Element examines this question through a comparative study of the use of shells to facilitate trade and exchange in ancient societies around the world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Download or read book Lelooska written by Chris Friday and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Smith - or Lelooska, as he was usually called - was a prominent Native American artist and storyteller in the Pacific Northwest. Born in 1933 of �mixed blood� Cherokee heritage, he was adopted as an adult by the prestigious Kwakiutl Sewid clan and had relationships with elders from a wide range of tribal backgrounds. Initially producing curio items for sale to tourists and regalia for Oregon Indians, Lelooska emerged in the late 1950s as one of a handful of artists who proved crucial to the renaissance of Northwest Coast Indian art. He also developed into a supreme performer and educator, staging shows of dances, songs, and storytelling. During the peak years, from the 1970s to the early 1990s, the family shows with Lelooska as the centerpiece attracted as many as 30,000 people annually. In this book, historian and family friend Chris Friday shares and annotates interviews that he conducted with Lelooska, between 1993 and ending shortly before the artist's death, in 1996. This is the story of a man who reached, quite literally, a million or more people in his lifetime and whose life was at once exceptional and emblematic.
Download or read book Shadow House written by Jonathan Meuli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
