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• Title:Recasting commodity and spectacle in the indigenous Americas / edited by Helen Gilbert and Charlotte Gleghorn.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Gilbert, Helen, 1956- editor.
  Gleghorn, Charlotte, editor.
  
• Published/Created:London : Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, [2014]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NX501.5 .R43 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Arts, Latin American.
  Indigenous art--Latin America.
  
• Description:xiii, 273 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:"Indigenous artists frequently voice concerns over the commodification of their cultures, a process acutely felt by those living with the consequences of colonialism. This timely volume, which features colour illustrations, excavates recent histories of indigenous performance in different parts of the Americas and invites us to re-examine indigeneity's distinctive relationship with economies of display, at local and regional scales. Making reference to aesthetic forms, intellectual property and political empowerment, the chapters address the creative ways in which performance practices are mobilised by indigenous artists and communities to resist imposed stereotypes and shape their own complex identities. LEading academics and practitioners register the vibrancy of a wide array of indigenous arts and cultural events in the USA, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Canada, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Belize and trace the circulation of creative products and practices as commodities, as cultural capital and/or as heritage. Through a focus on performance idioms in music, festive events, film, photography, theatre and museum installations, these essays paint a fascinating picture of the ways in which spectacles of cultural difference enter the public sphere, and how they are remodelled in the hands of skilled indigenous practitioners."--Back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781908857088
  1908857080
  
• Contents:'Will making movies do the sheep any good?' The afterlife of native American images / Michelle H. Raheja
  Modernity and the indigenous in centennial celebrations of independence in Mexico City, 1910 and 1921 / Michael J. Gonzales
  Indigeneity in the Oruro Carnival: official memory, Bolivian identity and the politics of recognition / Ximena Córdova Oviedo
  Crafting contemporary indigeneity through audiovisual media in Bolivia / Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal
  Nora Naranjo-Morse's 'Always becoming': enacting indigenous identity on a museum stage / Andrea Zittlau
  Performance, gestures and poses in postcards of Ho-Chuck in Wisconsin Dells / Sarah Anne Stolte
  Rethinking spectracle and indigenous consumption: commercial huayno music in Peru / James Butterworth
  Everyday work as spectacle: celebrating Maya embodied culture in Belize / Genner Llanes-Ortiz
  Spectacle and discourse of decommoditisation in the construction of subaltern public spheres: the P'urhépecha New Year and P'urhéecherio / Andrew Roth-Seneff
  Performing and disputing indigeneity in the Fiesta del Coraza in Otavalo, Ecuador / Sergio Miguel Huarcaya
  Indigeneity, law and performance on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua / Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
  What we talk about when we talk about Indian / Yvette Nolan
  Indigenous intervention at Klahowya Village, Vancouver/unceded Coast Salish Territory / Selena Couture.