Format:
1 online resource (510 pages)
ISBN:
9780774863797
Content:
Writing the Hamat̓sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, intercultural mediation, and ultimate survival of one of Canada's most iconic Indigenous ceremonies.
Content:
"Despite settler attempts to eradicate the Hamat̓sa:, the "cannibal dance" remains an important prerogative of the Kwakwaka'wakw people. While generations of anthropologists sought to document the ceremony's past, the Kwakwaka'wakw adapted and preserved its dramatic choreography and magnificent bird masks for the future. Writing the Hamat̓sa: offers a critical survey of efforts to record and interpret the ritual over the past four centuries. Drawing on close, contextualized reading of published texts, extensive archival research, and fieldwork, Aaron Glass goes beyond postcolonial critiques that often ignore Indigenous agency to show how the Kwakwaka'wakw have responded to an ethnographic legacy that helped transform specific performances into a broad cultural icon. The result is a fascinating study of how Indigenous peoples both contribute to and repurpose texts to shape modern identities under settler colonialism."--Amazon
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780774863780
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Glass, Aaron Writing the Hamat̓sa Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, 2021 ISBN 0774863773
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780774863773
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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