Switchbacks
Subtitle: art, ownership, and Nuxalk national identity
By: Jennifer Kramer.
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780774812276
Subjects: Bella Coola Indians -- Material culture; Bella Coola Indians -- Ethnic identity; Bella Coola art; Cultural property -- Repatriation -- British Columbia -- Bella Coola River Region
Description: "Jennifer Kramer undertook participant observation at Nuxalk artists' studios, in the Nuxalk-run band school's cultural education classes, and during the everyday activities of Nuxalk in their homes. She charts the fluid character of tangible material culture (such as masks and othe regalia) and intangible material culture (such as songs and dances) as they moved in and out of the cultural education curriculum, the Western art market, and the Western legal system. In addition, Kramer analyzes the ambivalent reactions of the Nuxalk to ownership, appropriation, and repatriation of their culture. The Nuxalk oscillate between essential stances, a process Kramer likens to "switchbacks" on a mountain road. Through these recurrent movements they create, recreate, and validate contemporary Nuxalk identity."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-146) and index.