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Indigenous Aesthetics

Author : Steven Leuthold
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788347
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Aesthetics written by Steven Leuthold and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a Native or indigenous person turns a video camera on his or her own culture? Are the resulting images different from what a Westernized filmmaker would create, and, if so, in what ways? How does the use of a non-Native art-making medium, specifically video or film, affect the aesthetics of the Native culture? These are some of the questions that underlie this rich study of Native American aesthetics, art, media, and identity. Steven Leuthold opens with a theoretically informed discussion of the core concepts of aesthetics and indigenous culture and then turns to detailed examination of the work of American Indian documentary filmmakers, including George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva, Jr. He shows how Native filmmaking incorporates traditional concepts such as the connection to place, to the sacred, and to the cycles of nature. While these concepts now find expression through Westernized media, they also maintain continuity with earlier aesthetic productions. In this way, Native filmmaking serves to create and preserve a sense of identity for indigenous people.

Postindian Aesthetics

Author : Debra K. S. Barker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816546266
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Postindian Aesthetics written by Debra K. S. Barker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postindian Aesthetics is a collection of critical, cutting-edge essays on a new generation of Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully contributing to a thriving Indigenous literary canon that is redefining the parameters of Indigenous literary aesthetics.

Literary Indians

Author : Angela Calcaterra
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469646951
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Literary Indians written by Angela Calcaterra and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practices to American literary production. Countering the prevailing notion of the "literary Indian" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters. Focusing on tribal histories and Indigenous artistry, Calcaterra locates surprising connections and important distinctions between Native and Anglo-American literary aesthetics in a new history of early American encounter, identity, literature, and culture.

Indigenous Aesthetics

Author : Dylan A. T. Miner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780763408
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Aesthetics written by Dylan A. T. Miner and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on 'non-traditional' indigenous practices, because these discourses are the artistic and aesthetic sites in which contemporary Native artists are participating. In this way, an engaged analysis of street art, cinema, and curatorial work appropriately positions news ways of seeing indigenous North American art. Written from an indigenist perspective, one which incorporates Western theories, yet couched in contemporary indigenous ontologies, Indigenous Aesthetics offers many new findings. Initially, this will be the first book of its kind to discuss contemporary Native art in relationship to radical politics and/or aesthetics. Second, because many of the artists, collectives, and activists in the book work outside dominant institutions, little is written about their work. The text will be significant in that it offers fresh insights about innovative figures and institutions. Moreover, by challenging dominate Western institutions, even Leftist and radical ones, the arguments represent a lasting critique above and beyond simply the insertion of indigenous aesthetics into contemporary discussions on aesthetics.

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

Author : Arindam Chakrabarti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472524306
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art written by Arindam Chakrabarti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning field of Asian aesthetics. Featuring leading international scholars and teachers whose work defines the field, this unique volume reflects the very best scholarship in creative, analytic, and comparative philosophy. Beginning with a philosophical reconstruction of the classical rasa aesthetics, chapters range from the nature of art-emotions, tones of thinking, and aesthetic education to issues in film-theory and problems of the past versus present. As well as discussing indigenous versus foreign in aesthetic practices, this volume covers North and South Indian performance practices and theories, alongside recent and new themes including the Gandhian aesthetics of surrender and self-control and the aesthetics of touch in the light of the politics of untouchability. With such unparalleled and authoritative coverage, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art represents a dynamic map of comparative cross-cultural aesthetics. Bringing together original philosophical research from renowned thinkers, it makes a major contribution to both Eastern and Western contemporary aesthetics.

Art Effects

Author : Carlos Fausto
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496221532
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Art Effects written by Carlos Fausto and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Art Effects Carlos Fausto explores the interplay between indigenous material culture and ontology in ritual contexts, interpreting the agency of artifacts and indigenous presences and addressing major themes in anthropological theory and art history to study ritual images in the widest sense. Fausto delves into analyses of the body, aerophones, ritual masks, and anthropomorphic effigies while making a broad comparison between Amerindian visual regimes and the Christian imagistic tradition. Drawing on his extensive fieldwork in Amazonia, Fausto offers a rich tapestry of inductive theorizing in understanding anthropology's most complex subjects of analysis, such as praxis and materiality, ontology and belief, the power of images and mimesis, anthropomorphism and zoomorphism, and animism and posthumanism. Art Effects also brims with suggestive, hemispheric comparisons of South American and North American indigenous masks. In this tantalizing interdisciplinary work with echoes of Franz Boas, Pierre Clastres, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, among others, Fausto asks: how do objects and ritual images acquire their efficacy and affect human beings?

Vanishing Beauty

Author : Bertie Winkel
Publisher : Prestel Pub
ISBN 13 : 9783791337432
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Beauty written by Bertie Winkel and published by Prestel Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two renowned photographers record in stunning detail and variety the practice of body adornment in the world's most remote regions.

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

Author : Arindam Chakrabarti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472525973
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada

Author : Heather Igloliorte
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000608565
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada written by Heather Igloliorte and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion consists of chapters that focus on and bring forward critical theories and productive methodologies for Indigenous art history in North America. This book makes a major and original contribution to the fields of Indigenous visual arts, professional curatorial practice, graduate-level curriculum development, and academic research. The contributors expand, create, establish and define Indigenous theoretical and methodological approaches for the production, discussion, and writing of Indigenous art histories. Bringing together scholars, curators, and artists from across the intersecting fields of Indigenous art history, critical museology, cultural studies, and curatorial practice, the companion promotes the study and dissemination of Indigenous art and stimulates new conversations on such key areas as visual sovereignty and self-determination; resurgence and resilience; land-based, embodied, and nation-specific knowledges; epistemologies and ontologies; curatorial and museological methodologies; language; decolonization and Indigenization; and collaboration, consultation, and mentorship.

Painful Beauty

Author : Megan A. Smetzer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295748958
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Painful Beauty written by Megan A. Smetzer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women’s resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created beaded pieces for community use and to sell to tourists. Like other Tlingit art, beadwork reflects rich artistic visions with deep connections to the environment, clan histories, and Tlingit worldviews. Contemporary Tlingit artists Alison Bremner, Chloe French, Shgen Doo Tan George, Lily Hudson Hope, Tanis S’eiltin, and Larry McNeil foreground the significance of historical beading practices in their diverse, boundary-pushing artworks. Working with museum collection materials, photographs, archives, and interviews with artists and elders, Megan Smetzer reframes this often overlooked artform as a site of historical negotiations and contemporary inspirations. She shows how beading gave Tlingit women the freedom to innovate aesthetically, assert their clan crests and identities, support tribal sovereignty, and pass on cultural knowledge. Painful Beauty is the first dedicated study of Tlingit beadwork and contributes to the expanding literature addressing women’s artistic expressions on the Northwest Coast.

Beyond Aesthetics

Author : Christopher Pinney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000180948
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Aesthetics written by Christopher Pinney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his posthumous book Art and Agency. The central thesis of his study was that art objects could be seen, not as bearers of meaning or aesthetic value, but as forms mediating social action. At a stroke, Gell provocatively dismissed many longstanding but tired questions of definition and issues of aesthetic value. His book proposed a novel perspective on the roles of art in political practice and made fresh links between analyses of style, tradition and society. Offering a new overview of the anthropology of art, this book begins where Gell left off. Presenting wide-ranging critiques of the limits of aesthetic interpretation, the workings of objects in practice, the relations between meaning and efficacy and the politics of postcolonial art, its distinguished contributors both elaborate on and dissent from the controversies of Gells important text. Subjects covered include music and the internet as well as ethnographic traditions and contemporary indigenous art. Geographically its case studies range from India to Oceania to North America and Europe.

Beyond Aesthetics

Author : Christopher Pinney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000184129
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Aesthetics written by Christopher Pinney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his posthumous book Art and Agency. The central thesis of his study was that art objects could be seen, not as bearers of meaning or aesthetic value, but as forms mediating social action. At a stroke, Gell provocatively dismissed many longstanding but tired questions of definition and issues of aesthetic value. His book proposed a novel perspective on the roles of art in political practice and made fresh links between analyses of style, tradition and society. Offering a new overview of the anthropology of art, this book begins where Gell left off. Presenting wide-ranging critiques of the limits of aesthetic interpretation, the workings of objects in practice, the relations between meaning and efficacy and the politics of postcolonial art, its distinguished contributors both elaborate on and dissent from the controversies of Gells important text. Subjects covered include music and the internet as well as ethnographic traditions and contemporary indigenous art. Geographically its case studies range from India to Oceania to North America and Europe.

At the Mountain's Base

Author : Traci Sorell
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735230609
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book At the Mountain's Base written by Traci Sorell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots. At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war. With an author's note that pays homage to the true history of Native American U.S. service members like WWII pilot Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, this is a story that reveals the roots that ground us, the dreams that help us soar, and the people and traditions that hold us up.

Aesthetics of Repair

Author : Eugenia Kisin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487517912
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetics of Repair written by Eugenia Kisin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called “art” are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on contemporary imaginaries of repair, the book asks how diverse forms of collective reckoning with settler-colonial harm resonate with urgent conversations about aesthetics of care in art. The discussion moves across urban and remote spaces of display for Northwest Coast–style Indigenous art, including galleries and museums, pipeline protests, digital exhibitions, an Indigenous-run art school, and a totem pole repatriation site. The book focuses on the practices around art and artworks as forms of critical Indigenous philosophy, arguing that art’s efficacies in this moment draw on Indigenous protocols for enacting justice between persons, things, and territories. Featuring examples of belongings that embody these social relations – a bentwood box made to house material memories, a totem pole whose return replenishes fish stocks, and a copper broken on the steps of the federal capital – each chapter shows how art is made to matter. Ultimately, Aesthetics of Repair illuminates the collision of contemporary art with extractive economies and contested practices of “resetting” settler-Indigenous relations.

Indigenous Aesthetics and Knowledges for Great Ocean Renaissances

Author : Léuli Eshraghi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648813033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Aesthetics and Knowledges for Great Ocean Renaissances written by Léuli Eshraghi and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

Author : Daniel Heath Justice
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771121785
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Why Indigenous Literatures Matter written by Daniel Heath Justice and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the heart of Indigenous kinship traditions: How do we learn to be human? How do we become good relatives? How do we become good ancestors? How do we learn to live together? Blending personal narrative and broader historical and cultural analysis with close readings of key creative and critical texts, Justice argues that Indigenous writers engage with these questions in part to challenge settler-colonial policies and practices that have targeted Indigenous connections to land, history, family, and self. More importantly, Indigenous writers imaginatively engage the many ways that communities and individuals have sought to nurture these relationships and project them into the future. This provocative volume challenges readers to critically consider and rethink their assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics while never forgetting the emotional connections of our shared humanity and the power of story to effect personal and social change. Written with a generalist reader firmly in mind, but addressing issues of interest to specialists in the field, this book welcomes new audiences to Indigenous literary studies while offering more seasoned readers a renewed appreciation for these transformative literary traditions.

The Beadworkers

Author : Beth Piatote
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092692
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Beadworkers written by Beth Piatote and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed–genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven–year–old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college—one French and the other Lakota—each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce–Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone. Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life.