Switchbacks

Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity

By Jennifer Kramer
Categories: Indigenous Studies, Regional & Cultural Studies, Canadian Studies, Art & Performance Studies, Indigenous Art
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774812276, 168 pages, March 2006
Paperback : 9780774812283, 168 pages, January 2007
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774841306, 168 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774855259, 168 pages, January 2007
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Acknowledgments

Prologue: The Repatriation of the Nuxalk Echo Mask

1 Introduction

2 The History of Bella Coola: A History of Theft

3 “Selling Out” or “Buying In”? Identity Politics and Art Objectification in Bella Coola

4 Privileged Knowledge versus Public Education: Tensions at Acwsalcta, the Nuxalk Nation “Place of Learning”

5 Physical and Figurative Repatriation: Case Studies of the Nuxalk Echo Mask and the Nuxalk Sun Mask

6 Theft Inside and Out: The Making of a Theory

7 Conclusions: Articulating Nuxalk National Identity

Notes

References

Index

Description

Switchbacks explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling and buying Nuxalk art fit into attempts to regain control of heritage?