Week 11: Indigenous creations in cultural institutions

Week 11: Indigenous creations in cultural institutions

Catherine (Cate) Massola
ANTH 1002: Anthropology in the world
Monday, October 17, 2022

Cate will provide more information about this lecture on the class Canvas site.

Main reading: Clifford (1988)

Other reading: Thomas (1991); Morphy (2001); Rubin (1984)

References and further reading

Clifford, James. 1988. “On Collecting Art and Culture.” In The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art, 215–51. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Morphy, Howard. 2001. “Seeing Aboriginal Art in the Gallery.” Humanities Research 8 (1): 37–50. https://doi.org/10.3316/ielapa.200200366.

Rubin, William. 1984. “Modernist primitivism: An introduction.” In “Primitivism” in 20th century art: Affinity of the tribal and the modern, 1–15. New York: Museum of Modern Art.

Thomas, Nicholas. 1991. “The European Appropriation of Indigenous Things.” In Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific, 125–84. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.