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Performing the Native Woman: Primitivism and Mimicry in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture

Alternate Title
[Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
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
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Trapped in a Human Zoo: Based on Abraham's Diary

Alternate Title
The Nature of Things with David Suzuki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Guilhem Rondot
Roch Brunette
Liam O'Rinn
France Rivet
Description
Documentary about Abraham Ulrikab and seven other Inuit who were transported from Labrador to Europe to act as living ethnological exhibits. Failure to inoculate them for smallpox resulted in their deaths and remains of the five who died in Paris were housed in French National Museum of Natural History. Duration: 44:15.
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