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Unpacking Culture Ruth B. Phillips

Unpacking Culture By Ruth B. Phillips

Unpacking Culture by Ruth B. Phillips


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Tourist art production is a global phenomenon and is increasingly recognized as an important and authentic expression of indigenous visual traditions. This title provides a comparative perspective on the history, character, and impact of tourist art in colonized societies in three areas of the world: Africa, Oceania, and North America.

Unpacking Culture Summary

Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds by Ruth B. Phillips

Tourist art production is a global phenomenon and is increasingly recognized as an important and authentic expression of indigenous visual traditions. These thoughtful, engaging essays provide a comparative perspective on the history, character, and impact of tourist art in colonized societies in three areas of the world: Africa, Oceania, and North America. Ranging broadly historically and geographically, Unpacking Culture is the first collection to bring together substantial case studies on this topic from around the world.

About Ruth B. Phillips

Ruth B. Phillips is Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Professor of Art History and Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Representing Women: Sande Masquerade of the Mende of Sierra Leone (1990) and Trading Identities: Native Art and the Souvenir in Northeastern North America, 1700-1900 (1998). Christopher B. Steiner is Lucy C. McDannel '22 Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Museum Studies at Connecticut College. He is the author of African Art in Transit (1994) and coeditor of Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (1997).

Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS: Jonathan Batkin Janet Catherine Berlo Marsha C. Bol Marvin Cohodas Frank Ettawageshik Nelson H. H. Graburn Sidney Littlefield Kasfir Stephen R. Inglis Carol S. Ivory Aldona Jonaitis Molly Lee Trudy Nicks Sandra A. Niessen Nancy J. Parezo Ruth B. Phillips Enid Schildkrout Eric Kline Silverman Christopher B. Steiner Verity Wilson

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GOR007517839
9780520207974
0520207971
Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds by Ruth B. Phillips
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
19990130
435
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