American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 15-32
Description
Argues that the founder of California Indian Studies was also an important ethnographic photographer.
Master's Thesis submitted in 1993 to the Institut Charles V of the University of Paris VII.
Content includes: Inventing the Indian and Representing Him from the First Encounters to the Civil War, and Various Images of the Indian: 1860-1917.
Discusses the survival of traditional Andean textile traditions and how they are linked to the people’s environment and their ancestors.
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Contesting Art: Art, Politics, and Identity in the Modern World
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jeremy MacClancy
Description
Introduction to themes in the volume which include: anti-colonialism, anti-racism; painting propaganda, picturing power; individuals, groups, categories; art as property; concepts and objects; and the marketing of art.
Chapter 1 from Contesting Art: Art, Politics, and Identity in the Modern World edited by Jeremy MacClancy.
Current Anthropology, vol. 53, no. S5, The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations, April 2012, pp. S210-S221
Description
Examines the social, cultural and political issues surrounding the repatriation of historical materials, sacred and significant objects, and human remains.
Website links to natural resources, history and culture, social equity, environmental justice and GIS mapping. Includes case studies comparing the environmental, social and cultural impact of natural resource development.
Originally published as the Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. This edition published with a new introduction by David Reed Miller.
Shows traditional nomadic life of the Netsilik Inuit. In a community igloo, women and men gamble at spear-the-peg game. The day ends with drumming and singing.
Duration: 34:40.
Educational website focuses on the photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis. Contains links to thumbnail images with notes, lesson plans, slide show and kit manual.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 23, no. 1, Spring, 2011, pp. 130-132
Description
Reviews Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll down to p. 130.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 1990, pp. 307-341
Description
Book reviews of 15 books:
Metaphors of Interpretation: Essays in Honour of W.E.H. Stanner edited by Diane E. Barwick, Jeremy Beckett and Marie Reay.
Convertir Les Fils de Cain, Jesuites et Amerindiens Nomades en Nouvelle-France by Alain Beaulieu.
The Alaska Highway: Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium edited by Kenneth Coates.
Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage by Brain W.
Description, field diary and pictures of Alice Fletcher's (1834-1923) six-week travels to Dakota territory in the fall of 1881. Includes photos of Sitting Bull.