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The Potlatch Papers
Author | : Christopher Bracken |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1997-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226069876 |
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Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is considered one of the founding concepts of anthropology. However, the author here dismisses such a theory, arguing the concept was invented by 19th-century Canadian law for the purpose of control. 9 halftones.
National Visions National Blindness
Author | : Leslie Dawn |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780774840620 |
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In the early decades of the twentieth century, the visual arts were considered central to the formation of a distinct national identity, and the Group of Seven's landscapes became part of a larger program to unify the nation and assert its uniqueness. This book traces the development of this program and illuminates its conflicted history. Leslie Dawn problematizes conventional perceptions of the Group as a national school and underscores the contradictions inherent in international exhibitions showing unpeopled landscapes alongside Northwest Coast Native arts and the "Indian" paintings of Langdon Kihn and Emily Carr. Dawn examines how this dichotomy forced a re-evaluation of the place of First Nations in both Canadian art and nationalism.
Paddling to where I Stand
Author | : Agnes Alfred |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0774809132 |
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The Kwakwaka'wakw people and their culture have been the subject of more anthropological writings than any other ethnic group on the Northwest Coast. Until now, however, no biography had been written by or about a Kwakwaka'wakw woman. Paddling to Where I Stand presents the memoirs of Agnes Alfred (c. 1890-1992), a non-literate noble Qwiqwasutinuxw woman of the Kwakwaka'wakw Nation and one of the last great storytellers among her peers in the classic oral tradition. Agnes Alfred documents through myths, historical accounts, and personal reminiscences the foundations and the enduring pulse of her culture. She shows how a First Nations woman managed to quietly fulfil her role as a noble matriarch in her ever-changing society, thus providing a role model for those who came after her. She also contributes significant light and understanding to several traditional practices including prearranged marriages and traditional potlatches. Paddling to Where I stand is more than another anthropological interpretation of Kwakwaka'wakw culture. It is the first-hand account, by a woman, of the greatest period of change she and her people experienced since first contact with Europeans, and her memoirs flow from her urgently felt desire to pass on her knowledge to younger generations..
Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1975-10 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : UVA:X002552321 |
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The Franz Boas Papers Volume 2
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 1035 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9781496237088 |
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Canadian Ethnology Society Papers from the sixth annual congress 1979
Author | : Marie-Françoise Guédon,D. G. Hatt |
Publsiher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1981-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781772822403 |
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Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (1979) with contributed papers ranging in topic from semiology to the seventeenth century Iroquois wars to Japanese ghost stories.
Potlatch as Pedagogy
Author | : Sara Davidson,Robert Davidson |
Publsiher | : Portage & Main Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-10-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781553797746 |
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In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government’s aim of assimilation. The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge of the ceremony was kept alive by the Elders through other events until the ban was lifted. In 1969, a potlatch was held. The occasion: the raising of a totem pole carved by Robert Davidson, the first the community had seen in close to 80 years. From then on, the community publicly reclaimed, from the Elders who remained to share it, the knowledge that has almost been lost. Sara Florence Davidson, Robert’s daughter, would become an educator. Over the course of her own education, she came to see how the traditions of the Haida practiced by her father—holistic, built on relationships, practical, and continuous—could be integrated into contemporary educational practices. From this realization came the roots for this book.
The Story of Radio Mind
Author | : Pamela E. Klassen |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-04-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226552873 |
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At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, a settler-mystic living on northwest coast of British Columbia invented radio mind: Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance. Retelling Du Vernet’s imaginative experiment, Pamela Klassen shows us how agents of colonialism built metaphysical traditions on land they claimed to have conquered. Following Du Vernet’s journey westward from Toronto to Ojibwe territory and across the young nation of Canada, Pamela Klassen examines how contests over the mediation of stories—via photography, maps, printing presses, and radio—lucidly reveal the spiritual work of colonial settlement. A city builder who bargained away Indigenous land to make way for the railroad, Du Vernet knew that he lived on the territory of Ts’msyen, Nisga’a, and Haida nations who had never ceded their land to the onrush of Canadian settlers. He condemned the devastating effects on Indigenous families of the residential schools run by his church while still serving that church. Testifying to the power of radio mind with evidence from the apostle Paul and the philosopher Henri Bergson, Du Vernet found a way to explain the world that he, his church and his country made. Expanding approaches to religion and media studies to ask how sovereignty is made through stories, Klassen shows how the spiritual invention of colonial nations takes place at the same time that Indigenous peoples—including Indigenous Christians—resist colonial dispossession through stories and spirits of their own.