Author | : Ann Lane Hedlund |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ann Lane Hedlund |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Iverson |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2002-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826327154 |
The most complete and current history of the largest American Indian nation in the U.S., based on extensive new archival research, traditional histories, interviews, and personal observation.
Author | : Laurie D. Webster |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1607326736 |
Navajo Textiles provides a nuanced account the Navajo weavings in the Crane Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science—one of the largest collections of Navajo textiles in the world. Bringing together the work of anthropologists and indigenous artists, the book explores the Navajo rug trade in the mid-nineteenth century and changes in the Navajo textile market while highlighting the museum’s important, though still relatively unknown, collection of Navajo textiles. In this unique collaboration among anthropologists, museums, and Navajo weavers, the authors provide a narrative of the acquisition of the Crane Collection and a history of Navajo weaving. Personal reflections and insights from foremost Navajo weavers D. Y. Begay and Lynda Teller Pete are also featured, and more than one hundred stunning full-color photographs of the textiles in the collection are accompanied by technical information about the materials and techniques used in their creation. An introduction by Ann Lane Hedlund documents the growing collaboration between Navajo weavers and museums in Navajo textile research. The legacy of Navajo weaving is complex and intertwined with the history of the Diné themselves. Navajo Textiles makes the history and practice of Navajo weaving accessible to an audience of scholars and laypeople both within and outside the Diné community.
Author | : National Endowment for the Arts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Federal aid to the arts |
ISBN | : |
Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.
Author | : Kathy M'Closkey |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780826328328 |
Debunks the romanticist stereotyping of Navajo weavers and Reservation traders and situates weavers within the economic history of the southwest.
Author | : Teresa J. Wilkins |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-03-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0806186623 |
The Navajo rugs and textiles that people admire and buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenth-century traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces how the relationships between generations of Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving. The Navajos valued their relationships with Hubbell and others who operated trading posts on their reservation. As a result, they did not always see themselves as exploited victims of a capitalist system. Rather, because of Navajo cultural traditions of gift-giving and helping others, the artists slowly adapted some of the patterns and colors the traders requested into their own designs. By the 1890s, Hubbell and others commissioned paintings depicting particular weaving styles and encouraged Navajo weavers to copy them, reinforcing public perceptions of traditional Navajo weaving. Even the Navajos came to revere certain designs as “the weaving of the ancestors.” Enhanced by numerous illustrations, including eight color plates, this volume traces the intricate play of cultural and economic pressures and personal relationships between artists and traders that guided Navajo weavers to produce textiles that are today emblems of the Native American Southwest. Winner - Multi-cultural Subject, New Mexico Book Awards
Author | : Mary B. Davis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 826 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135638543 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Kristin G. Congdon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 789 |
Release | : 2012-03-19 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0313349371 |
Folk art is as varied as it is indicative of person and place, informed by innovation and grounded in cultural context. The variety and versatility of 300 American folk artists is captured in this collection of informative and thoroughly engaging essays. American Folk Art: A Regional Reference offers a collection of fascinating essays on the life and work of 300 individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled in these two volumes are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. Because many of the artists in both categories have a clear identity with their land and culture, the work is organized by geographical region and includes an essay on each region to help make connections visible. There is also an introductory essay on U.S. folk art as a whole. Those writing about folk art to date tend to view each artist as either traditional or innovative. One of the major contributions of this work is that it demonstrates that folk artists more often exhibit both traits; they are grounded in their cultural context and creative in the way they make work their own. Such insights expand the study of folk art even as they readjust readers' understanding of who folk artists are.
Author | : Regna Darnell |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2019-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1496217691 |
Histories of Anthropology Annual presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies involving all aspects and subfields of anthropology. Volume 13, Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories, explores the interplay of identities and scholarship through the history of anthropology, with a special section examining fieldwork predecessors and indigenous communities in Native North America. Individual contributions explore the complexity of women’s history, indigenous history, national traditions, and oral histories to juxtapose what we understand of the past with its present continuities. These contributions include Sharon Lindenburger’s examination of Franz Boas and his navigation with Jewish identity, Kathy M’Closkey’s documentation of Navajo weavers and their struggles with cultural identities and economic resources and demands, and Mindy Morgan’s use of the text of Ruth Underhill’s O’odham study to capture the voices of three generations of women ethnographers. Because this work bridges anthropology and history, a richer and more varied view of the past emerges through the meticulous narratives of anthropologists and their unique fieldwork, ultimately providing competing points of access to social dynamics. This volume examines events at both macro and micro levels, documenting the impact large-scale historical events have had on particular individuals and challenging the uniqueness of a single interpretation of “the same facts.”