The Beadworkers

Author : Beth H. Piatote
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300189095
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Subjects written by Beth H. Piatote and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian home and family. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Piatote tracks the double movement of literature and law in the contest over the aims of settler-national domestication and the defense of tribal-national culture, political rights, and territory.

Author : Ellen K. Moore
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654008X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Beadwork written by Ellen K. Moore and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunset. Fire. Rainbow. Drawing on such common occurrences of light, Navajo artists have crafted an uncommon array of design in colored glass beads. Beadwork is an art form introduced to the Navajos through other Indian and Euro-American contacts, but it is one that they have truly made their own. More than simple crafts, Navajo beaded designs are architectures of light. Ellen Moore has written the first history of Navajo beadwork—belts and hatbands, baskets and necklaces—in a book that examines both the influence of Navajo beliefs in the creation of this art and the primacy of light and color in Navajo culture. Navajo Beadwork: Architectures of Light traces the evolution of the art as explained by traders, Navajo consultants, and Navajo beadworkers themselves. It also shares the visions, words, and art of 23 individual artists to reveal the influences on their creativity and show how they go about creating their designs. As Moore reveals, Navajo beadwork is based on an aggregate of beliefs, categories, and symbols that are individually interpreted and transposed into beaded designs. Most designs are generated from close observation of light in the natural world, then structured according to either Navajo tradition or the newer spirituality of the Native American Church. For many beadworkers, creating designs taps deeply embedded beliefs so that beaded objects reflect their thoughts and prayers, their aesthetic sensibilities, and their sense of being Navajo—but above all, their attention to light and its properties. No other book offers such an intimate view of this creative process, and its striking color plates attest to the wondrous results. Navajo Beadwork: Architectures of Light is a valuable record of ethnographic research and a rich source of artistic insight for lovers of beadwork and Native American art.

Author : Beth Piatote
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 164009427X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beadworkers written by Beth Piatote and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed–genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven–year–old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college—one French and the other Lakota—each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce–Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone. Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life.

Author : Beth Piatote
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092692
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beadworkers written by Beth Piatote and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Piatote's luminous debut collection opens with a feast, grounding its stories in the landscapes and lifeworlds of the Native Northwest, exploring the inventive and unforgettable pattern of Native American life in the contemporary world Told with humor, subtlety, and spareness, the mixed–genre works of Beth Piatote’s first collection find unifying themes in the strength of kinship, the pulse of longing, and the language of return. A woman teaches her niece to make a pair of beaded earrings while ruminating on a fractured relationship. An eleven–year–old girl narrates the unfolding of the Fish Wars in the 1960s as her family is propelled to its front lines. In 1890, as tensions escalate at Wounded Knee, two young men at college—one French and the other Lakota—each contemplate a death in the family. In the final, haunting piece, a Nez Perce–Cayuse family is torn apart as they debate the fate of ancestral remains in a moving revision of the Greek tragedy Antigone. Formally inventive and filled with vibrant characters, The Beadworkers draws on Indigenous aesthetics and forms to offer a powerful, sustaining vision of Native life.

Author : S. F. Nadel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429946244
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Black Byzantium written by S. F. Nadel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1942 this now classic book is a study of the Nupe of Northern Nigeria. The economic and political complexity of their kingdom evoked comparisons with the civilization of Byzantium. The detailed description and analysis of their social life and political institutions was the first study of a Muslim Emirate in Nigeria and as such is still an indispensable work.

Author : Joan M. Jensen
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873517288
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calling This Place Home written by Joan M. Jensen and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.

Author : Lydia Jessup
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 177282299X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Aboriginal representation in the Gallery written by Lydia Jessup and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recognizing the established intellectual and institutional authority of Aboriginal artists, curators, and academics working in cultural institutions and universities, this volume serves as an important primer on key questions and issues accompanying the changing representational practices of the community cultural center, the public art gallery and the anthropological museum.

Author : Elizabeth Bigham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684867842
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Beads written by Elizabeth Bigham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This uniquely designed book and kit with a detachable plexiglass spine contains nearly 2,000 colorful beads and instructions to make a variety of jewelry items while learning about African culture. 100 illustrations.

Author : Michael J. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009292854
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the American Short Story written by Michael J. Collins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.

Author : Ruth B. Phillips
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520207963
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unpacking Culture written by Ruth B. Phillips and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An outstanding set of studies that work well with each other to produce truly substantial and rich insights into the making and consuming of art in the colonial and post-colonial world."--Susan S. Bean, Curator, Peabody Essex Museum