Cannibal Culture
Art, Appropriation, And The Commodification Of Difference
Seiten
1996
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-2088-5 (ISBN)
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-2088-5 (ISBN)
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An examination of the ways in which Western art and commerce co-opt and trivialize American Indian art and imagery. The author raises questions about how people travel, what they buy, and how they determine cultural merit.
From nineteenth-century paintings of Arab marauders to our current fascination with New Age shamanism, Root explores and explodes the consumption of the Other as a source of violence, passion, and spirituality. This fascinating book raises important and uncomfortable questions about how we travel, what we buy, and how we determine cultural merit. In Arizona, a white family buys a Navajo-style blanket to be used on the guest-room bed. Across the country in New York, opera patrons weep to the death scene of Madam Butterfly. These seemingly unrelated events intertwine in Cannibal Culture as Deborah Root examines the ways Western art and Western commerce co-opt, pigeonhole, and commodify so-called native experiences. From nineteenth-century paintings of Arab marauders to our current fascination with New Age shamanism, Root explores and explodes the consumption of the Other as a source of violence, passion, and spirituality.
Through advertising images and books and films like The Sheltering Sky, Cannibal Culture deconstructs our passion for tourism and the concept of going native, while providing a withering indictment of a culture in which every cultural artifact and ideology is up for grabsa cannibal culture. This fascinating book raises important and uncomfortable questions about how we travel, what we buy, and how we determine cultural merit. Travelbe it to another country, to a museum, or to a supermarketwill never be the same again.
From nineteenth-century paintings of Arab marauders to our current fascination with New Age shamanism, Root explores and explodes the consumption of the Other as a source of violence, passion, and spirituality. This fascinating book raises important and uncomfortable questions about how we travel, what we buy, and how we determine cultural merit. In Arizona, a white family buys a Navajo-style blanket to be used on the guest-room bed. Across the country in New York, opera patrons weep to the death scene of Madam Butterfly. These seemingly unrelated events intertwine in Cannibal Culture as Deborah Root examines the ways Western art and Western commerce co-opt, pigeonhole, and commodify so-called native experiences. From nineteenth-century paintings of Arab marauders to our current fascination with New Age shamanism, Root explores and explodes the consumption of the Other as a source of violence, passion, and spirituality.
Through advertising images and books and films like The Sheltering Sky, Cannibal Culture deconstructs our passion for tourism and the concept of going native, while providing a withering indictment of a culture in which every cultural artifact and ideology is up for grabsa cannibal culture. This fascinating book raises important and uncomfortable questions about how we travel, what we buy, and how we determine cultural merit. Travelbe it to another country, to a museum, or to a supermarketwill never be the same again.
Deborah Root teaches art history at the Ontario College of Art and postcolonial theory in the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto.
Fat Eaters and Aesthetes: The Politics of Display; The Luxurious Ambivalence of Exoticism; Conquest, Appropriation, and Cultural Difference; Art and Taxidermy: The Warehouse of Treasures; Dreams and Landscapes: The Delineation of Wild Spaces; The Smoking Mirror.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.2.1996 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8133-2088-7 / 0813320887 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8133-2088-5 / 9780813320885 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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