Автор: Gerald McMaster Название: Iljuwas Bill Reid: Life & Work ISBN: 1487102658 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781487102654 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 7722.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Few twentieth-century artists were catalysts for the reclamation of a culture, but Iljuwas Bill Reid (1920–1998) was among them. The first book on Reid by an Indigenous scholar details his incredible journey to becoming one of the most significant Northwest Coast artists of our time. Born in British Columbia and denied his mother’s Haida heritage in his youth, Iljuwas Bill Reid lived the reality of colonialism yet tenaciously forged a creative practice that celebrated Haida ways of seeing and making. Reid followed in the footsteps of his great-great-uncle, master Haida artist Daxhiigang (Charles Edenshaw), engaging with a culture whose practices were once banned by the Indian Act. Reid, who created nearly a thousand original works, is remembered as a passionate artist, community activist, mentor, and writer. His iconic large-scale works now occupy sites such as the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
Today Kahnaw?:ke (“at the rapids”) is a community of approximately seventy-two hundred Mohawks, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal. One of the largest Mohawk communities, it is known in the modern era for its activism—a traditionalist, energetic impulse with a long history. Kahnaw?:ke examines the development of traditionalism and nationalism in this Kanien’kek?:ka (Mohawk) community from 1870 to 1940.
The core of Kahnaw?:ke’s cultural and political revitalization involved efforts to revive and refashion the community’s traditional political institutions, reforge ties to and identification with the Iroquois Confederacy, and reestablish the traditional longhouse within the community. Gerald F. Reid interprets these developments as the result of the community’s efforts to deal with internal ecological, economic, and political pressures and the external pressures for assimilation, particularly as they stemmed from Canadian Indian policy. Factionalism was a consequence of these pressures and an important ingredient in the development of traditionalist and nationalist responses within the community. These responses within Kahnaw?:ke also contributed to and were supported by similar processes of revitalization in other Iroquois communities.
Drawing on primary documents and numerous oral histories, Kahnaw?:ke provides a detailed ethnohistory of a major Kanien’kek?:ka community at a turbulent and transformative time in its history and the history of the Iroquois Confederacy. It not only makes an important contribution to the understanding of this vital but little studied community but also sheds new light on recent Iroquois history and Native political and cultural revitalization.
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