The dynamic discourse stimulated by 78 magnificent objects created by Native Americans over the years, now housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the responses of contemporary Native Americans to those objects forms the core of this book. As seen in these vibrant pages, the Museum is not a place of dead objects from the past. It is, rather, a place of people and ideas about human societies and cultures, a place of living, active objects, a place where the present can connect to ...
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The dynamic discourse stimulated by 78 magnificent objects created by Native Americans over the years, now housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the responses of contemporary Native Americans to those objects forms the core of this book. As seen in these vibrant pages, the Museum is not a place of dead objects from the past. It is, rather, a place of people and ideas about human societies and cultures, a place of living, active objects, a place where the present can connect to the past. The volume editors frame important issues and concepts-the nature of Native American identity in the past and present, indigenous sovereignty, the active destruction of Native American cultures and languages over the past half-millennium, along with their perseverance and strength to survive, and, finally, the power of ancestors. As Richard M. Leventhal, the Museum's Williams Director, notes in his Foreword, the Native American scholars and artists who contribute to this book are assisting the Museum in its attempt to become a more integral part of today's world. It is the preservation of ideas embodied within objects from the past and present that allows for the representation and strength of Native American identity.
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Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
Published:
2005
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17223005115
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 203pp. color+b/w photos, illustrations; Large Quarto cloth hardbound; tight binding, minimal cover wear; interior clean throughout; Inscribed by Preucel; Fine. dj: No tears, scuffed on rear, creasing on corners; Very Good. Inscribed by Editor.
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
Published:
2005
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18071919315
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications
Published:
2005
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English
Alibris ID:
18133512002
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Fine in Fine jacket. Folio Fine with no wear or markings in a fine jacket. Well-illustrated with nice selection and short biographies of the various artists.
