Native Art of the Northwest Coast
A History of Changing Ideas
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Native Art of the Northwest Coast
A History of Changing Ideas
1,120 pages | © 2013

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Idea of Northwest Coast Native Art / Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and ?i-?e-in
1 Interpreting Cultural Symbols of the People from the Shore / Daisy Sewid-Smith
2 Hilth Hiitinkis -- From the Beach / ?i-?e-in
3 Haida Cosmic / Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
4 From Explorers to Ethnographers, 1770-1870 / Ira Jacknis
5 Thresholds of Meaning: Voice, Time, and Epistemology in the Archaeological Consideration of Northwest Coast Art / Andrew Martindale
6 Objects and Knowledge: Early Accounts from Ethnographers, and Their Written Records and Collecting Practices, ca. 1880-1930 / Andrea Laforet
7 “That Which Was Most Important”: Louis Shotridge on Crest Art and Clan History / Judith Berman
8 Anthropology of Art: Shifting Paradigms and Practices, 1870s-1950 / Bruce Granville Miller
9 Going by the Book: Missionary Perspectives / John Barker
10 The Dark Years / Gloria Cranmer Webster
11 Surrealists and the New York Avant-Garde, 1920-60 / Marie Mauzé
12 Northwest Coast Art and Canadian National Identity, 1900-50 / Leslie Dawn
13 Art/Craft in the Early Twentieth Century / Scott Watson
14 Welfare Politics, Late Salvage, and Indigenous (In)Visiblity, 1930-60 / Ronald W. Hawker
15Form First, Function Follows: The Use of Formal Analysis in Northwest Coast Art History / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
16 Democratization and Northwest Coast Art in the Modern Period: Native Emissaries, Non-Native Connoisseurship, and Consumption / Judith Ostrowitz
17 History and Critique of the “Renaissance” Discourse / Aaron Glass
18 Starting from the Beginning / Marianne Nicolson
19 Shifting Theory, Shifting Publics: The Anthropology of Northwest Coas
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