Surviving desires : making and selling Native jewellery in the American Southwest
Henrietta Lidchi
Bok Engelsk 2015
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| Omfang | vii, 264 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | "Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural economy of the Southwest, exploring jewellery making as a decorative art form in constant transition. She describes the jewellery as subject to a number of desires, controlled at different times by government agencies, individual entrepreneurs, traders, curators, and Native American communities. Lidechi explores the jewellery as craft, material culture, commodity, and adornment. Considering the impact of tourism, she discusses fakes in the market and the artists' desires to codify traditional styles, explaining how that can affect stylistic development and value. Surviving Desires suggests the complexity and reinvention innate to Native American jewellery as a commercial craft"--
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| Geografisk emneord | USA : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01695
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| ISBN | 9780806148502
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