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  • Culture in the Marketplace

    Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest

    Serier serie Objects/Histories
    In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace Molly H. Mullin provides a detailed narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market—as well as the influence these activities had on them—in order to ... Læs mere

    213,49 kr.

  • Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms

    Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast

    Interpreting Sacred Objects: Indigenous Material Culture and Spiritual Meaning in the Northeast.Decorated stone artifacts are a significant part of archaeological studies of Native Americans in the Northeast. The artifacts illuminated in Amulets, Effigies, Fetishes, and Charms: Native American Artifacts and Spirit Stones from the Northeast include pecked, sculpted, or incised figures, images, or ... Læs mere

    200,11 kr.

  • Painting Native America

    Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century

    Generations of Indigenous artists have sought to make a place for Native art in North American culture and society as well as the broader art world. Written at the intersection of history and art history, Painting Native America tells the social history of Indigenous artists and their experiences as they negotiate such questions as how to use art for social and political goals, what constitutes ... Læs mere

    339,61 kr.

  • The Spirit Within / El espíritu inherente

    The Walters Art Museum

    Serier Bog 2 - The Walters Art Museum Collection Focus
    This volume, coinciding with the opening of permanent Art of the Americas galleries at the Walters Art Museum in 2025, examines how, for people in the Indigenous Americas, materials had and continue to have a life of their own.Ancient and modern craftspeople shaped jade, gold, feathers, and clay into exquisite artworks, but the meanings of those objects are intertwined with the living essence of ... Læs mere

    63,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Clackamas Chinook Performance Art

    Verse Form Interpretations

    Serier serie Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
    Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationVictoria Howard was born around 1865, a little more than ten years after the founding of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in western Oregon. Howardʼs maternal grandmother, Wagayuhlen Quiaquaty, was a successful and valued Clackamas shaman at Grand Ronde, and her ... Læs mere

    200,49 kr.

  • Dancing Gods

    Discover the rich ceremonial traditions of the Southwestern United States in Dancing Gods by Erna Fergusson. This classic work offers an in-depth exploration of indigenous rituals, dances, and cultural practices.Fergusson places these ceremonies within their historical and cultural context, illuminating the spiritual and societal significance of each tradition. Through her detailed observations ... Læs mere

    15,64 kr.

  • Native Genius

    The Perils of Being an American Indian Artist

    This book explores the world of contemporary American Indian Art in the Southwest, a subject that has long been overlooked-until now. At the heart of the book is how these artists are trapped in a world over which they have little control. If they paint what the tourists expect them to paint, such as Indians on horseback hunting buffalo, then they're going to find gallery representation and sell ... Læs mere

    39,22 kr.

  • Native Lands

    Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims

    Native Lands analyzes the role of visual and literary culture in contemporary Indigenous campaigns for territorial rights. In the post-1960s era, Indigenous artists and writers have created works that align with the goals and strategies of new Native land-based movements. These works represent Native histories and epistemologies in ways that complement activist endeavors, while also probing the ... Læs mere

    235,42 kr.

  • Salish Blankets

    Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth

    Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are complex objects said to preexist in the supernatural realm and made manifest in the natural world through ancestral guidance. The blankets are protective garments that at times of great life changes—birth, marriage, death—offer emotional strength and ... Læs mere

    300,74 kr.

  • Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors

    Named a 2021 Kansas Notable BookNorthern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors presents the images of Native warriors—Wild Hog, Porcupine, and Left Hand, as well as possibly Noisy Walker (or Old Man), Old Crow, Blacksmith, and Tangled Hair—as they awaited probable execution in the Dodge City jail in 1879. When Sheriff Bat Masterson provided drawing materials, the men created war ... Læs mere

    434,36 kr.

  • Baskets from the Seri Coast

    Comcaac Weavers and Their Craft

    Serier serie Southwest Center Series
    This stunning exploration of Seri (Comcaac) basket weaving reveals the resilience and creativity of the weavers as seen through the lens of documentary photographer David Burckhalter, who has spent five decades cultivating friendships and documenting Seri traditions, landscapes, and basketry in Sonora, Mexico.Blending striking photography with reflections from years as a trader and observer of ... Læs mere

    233,86 kr.

  • Sage and Cedar

    Darell Marcus Kills In Sight - Wambli Ohitika-Brave Eagle. Darell is a last-generation fluent Lakota speaker from Spring Creek, Rosebud Sioux-Sicangu tribe, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. A direct family descendant of the Crazy Horse family.-Ta'sunka Witko Tiospaye. His generational family stories of Lakota traditional culture are written through prose with an antidotal message of hope, ... Læs mere

    78,52 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • George Catlin

    Painter of Indian Life

    af Richard Worth ...
    First Published in 2009. This book brings together the work of George Catlin's illustrations and observations of the American Indian tribes, lands, people and way of living, and peoples, initially exhibited in New York city in September 1837 ... Læs mere

    450,51 kr.

  • A History of St. Vincent and the Grenadines

    A Journey Through Resilience and Triumph

    af Peters Nolan ...
    "A History of St. Vincent and the Grenadines" is a sweeping narrative of resilience, struggle, and triumph. From the earliest Amerindian settlers to the fierce Carib resistance, the brutality of slavery, and the long road to independence, this book tells the story of a nation forged through adversity and cultural diversity.Drawing on meticulous historical research and written in a clear, engaging ... Læs mere

    78,52 kr.

  • Red Skin Dreams

    Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale

    In Red Skin Dreams curator and scholar Nancy Marie Mithlo (Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe) recounts the challenges of exhibiting Indigenous art at the famed Venice Biennale, the world’s oldest and most-recognized international arts exhibition. Mithlo’s experience of organizing nine independently sponsored exhibitions in Italy from 1997 through 2017 reveals marginalization and ... Læs mere

    300,74 kr.

  • A Totem Pole History

    The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire

    Serier serie Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
    Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894–1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter Pauline Hillaire, Scälla–Of the Killer Whale, who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, tells the story of her father’s life and the traditional and contemporary Lummi narratives that ... Læs mere

    267,36 kr.