Unpacking culture : art and commodity in colonial and postcolonial worlds / edited by Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher B. Steiner. - xv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-406) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Art, Authenticity, and the Baggage of Cultural Encounter -- My Father's Business -- Constructing the other: Production as Negotiation -- Nuns, Ladies, and the "Queen of the Huron": Appropriating the Savage in Nineteenth-Century Huron Tourist Art -- Tourist Art as the Crafting of Identity in the Sepik River (Papua New Guinea) -- Samburu Souvenirs: Representations of a Land in Amber -- Authenticity: The Problem of Mechanical Reproduction -- Authenticity, Repetition, and the Aesthetics of Seriality: The Work of Tourist Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Northwest Coast Totem Poles -- Master, Machine, and Meaning: Printed Images in Twentieth-Century India -- Artistic Innovation and the Discourses of Identity -- Elizabeth Hickox and Karuk Basketry: A Case Study in Debates on Innovation and Paradigms of Authenticity -- Threads of Tradition, Threads of Invention: Unraveling Toba Batak Women's Expressions of Social Change -- Drawing (upon) the Past: Negotiating Identities in Inuit Graphic Arts Production -- (Re)fashioning Gender and Stereotype in Touristic Production -- Gender and Sexuality in Mangbetu Art -- Defining Lakota Tourist Art, 1880-1915 -- Studio and Soiree: Chinese Textiles in Europe and America, 1850 to the Present -- The Indian Fashion Show -- Collecting Culture and Cultures of Collecting -- Tourism and Taste Cultures: Collecting Native Art in Alaska at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Tourism Is Overrated: Pueblo Pottery and the Early Curio Trade, 1880-1910 -- Staging Tourist Art: Contexts for Cultural Conservation -- Indian Villages and Entertainments: Setting the Stage for Tourist Souvenir Sales -- Art, Tourism, and Cultural Revival in the Marquesas Islands -- Epilogue: Ethnic and Tourist Arts Revisited -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index. 1. 2. Pt. 1. 3. 4. 5. Pt. 2. 6. 7. 8. Pt. 3. 9. 10. 11. Pt. 4. 12. 13. 14. 15. Pt. 5. 16. 17. Pt. 6. 18. 19.

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Tourism and art
Art and society
Art--Economic aspects

N72.T68 / U57 1999

306.47