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Reflexive Anthropology on Display: Franz Boas, George Hunt, and the Co-Production of Ethnographic Knowledge
A portion of an 1897 letter from Franz Boas to Kwagu’ł Chiefs, reproduced in English and Kwak’wala, opens The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology, an exhibition on view...
BC Studies no. 201 Spring 2019 | Page(s) 131-139
Kwakwaka'wakw U'mista Cultural Centre Boas Franz George Hunt
Book Review
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Book Review
Sonny Assu: A Selective History
This comprehensive survey of Sonny Assu’s work is prefaced by four incisive essays by prominent indigenous scholars and curators. This beautifully designed and thoughtfully organized book covers significant phases in the Kwakwaka’ wakw artist’s career,...
BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | Page(s) 207
Book Review
Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form (50th anniversary edition)
To anyone who is familiar with Northwest Coast art scholarship, it will come as no surprise that Bill Holm’s Northwest Coast Indian Art: An Analysis of Form was published anew 50 years after it was...
BC Studies no. 195 Autumn 2017 | Page(s) 179-180
Book Review
In the Spirit of the Ancestors: Contemporary Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum
In the Spirit of the Ancestors celebrates the Burke Museum’s contemporary Northwest Coast art collection. The writers, four academics and four artists, all have strong ties to this Seattle museum, and the artists featured here...
BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | Page(s) 216-217
Book Review
Interventions: Native American Art for Far-flung Territories
Judith Ostrowitz skilfully investigates the complex and innovative strategies used by First Nations artists since the 1950s to engage with museum, art gallery, restoration, and tourist initiatives. She shows how various individuals and groups...
BC Studies no. 168 Winter 2010-2011 | Page(s) 106-107
Book Review
Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art
A book of this kind – large and sumptuous, rich with colour photo graphs of historical and more recent Haida art from the Northwest Coast, and featuring a dozen essays by Haida and non-Native contributors...