[Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity]
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Ruth B. Phillips
Description
Argues that during the period between the 1860s and the 1960s performance art offered the most favourable site for answering to stereotypes such as vanishing, pre-modern and degenerate races. Uses the careers of Ester Deer and Molly Nelson as examples.
Chapter from: Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity edited by Lynda Jessup
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 3, 2001, pp. 1-26
Description
A re-reevaluation of Navajo women in post-colonial times demonstrates that these women had and continue to have voices in economic, political, and social realms. The few Navajo women mentioned in historical records were viewed as autonomous and self-assured, unlike the stereotypical images would have us believe.