Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum

Shows and describes Indian textiles, carvings, weapons, tools, baskets, and pottery

Arts & Photography

Jacknis, Ira

Fane, Diana

Breen, Lise M.

History & Criticism

Univ of Washington Pr

Shows and describes Indian textiles, carvings, weapons, tools, baskets, and pottery.

The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée de l'Homme's 1930s fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering, Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous studies as well as museum and heritage professionals.

Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government

Business & Money

Bennett, Tony

Harrison, Rodney

McCarthy, Conal

Cameron, Fiona

Dias, Nélia

Dibley, Ben

Industries

Duke University Press Books

The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée de l'Homme's 1930s fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums, the authors illuminate recent debates about postwar forms of multicultural governance, cultural conceptions of difference, and postcolonial policy and practice in museums. Collecting, Ordering, Governing is essential reading for scholars and students of anthropology, museum studies, cultural studies, and indigenous studies as well as museum and heritage professionals.

The Brooklyn Museum has played a major role in presenting and interpreting North American Native art. Its commitment to this field began in 1903, when R. Stewart Culin was appointed to head its new Department of Ethnology. During three trips to the Northwest in 1905, 1908, and 1911, Culin collaborated with Dr. Charles F. Newcombe and bought several pieces from Newcombe's own collection, including objects from the Haida, Kwakiutl, Nootka, and Salish as well as some Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Athapaskan pieces. By 1912 the museum's collection included more than 9,000 pieces.
Objects of Myth and Memory is the first publication devoted to this fascinating and influential early collection. It includes two interpretive essays on Culin's career as well as 250 individual entries which illustrate and annotate his most important acquisitions.
A visually stunning book, Objects of Myth and Memory presents masterworks of North American Indian art in a precise social and historical context and offers fascinating glimpses of the collecting process.

UBC Press

Getemono: Collecting the folk crafts of old Japan [paperback] Jacknis, Ira [Jan 01, 1994] … 0936127031

Getemono: Collecting the folk crafts of old Japan

Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

The people of the Klamath River region in Northwestern California possess one of the richest carving traditions in Native American art. Today this tradition is undergoing an exciting revival, reaching aesthetic heights not seen in a century. This volume includes a facisimile reprint of a 1930 essay by archaeologist Isabel Kelly, "The Carver's Art of the Indians of Northwestern Califrnia." An extensive introduction to the art by Ira Jacknis is the first substantial writing on this subject in over half a century. It is comprehensive and based on information from the makers and users of these objects, combining a summary of the scholarly literature, archival field notes, museum collections, and observations and interviews with contemporary artists. Photographs show the historic objects in use and a generous sampling of new work.

Carving Traditions of Northwest California (Classics in California Anthropology)

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

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Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum

Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum

Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government

Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government

Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum

Getemono: Collecting the folk crafts of old Japan

Carving Traditions of Northwest California (Classics in California Anthropology)