Visualizing genocide : Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums / edited by Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo ; foreword by Charlene Villaseñor Black.

Date:
2022
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Indigenous interventions in art, archives, and museums

Description

"Visualizing Genocide engages the often sparse and biased discourses of genocidal violence against Indigenous communities documented in exhibits, archives, and museums. Essayists and artists from a range of disciplines identify how Native knowledge can be effectively incorporated into memory spaces"-- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2022.

Physical description

viii, 285 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: the unknowable known past / Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo -- Dialogue with sons of the sun / Richard Ray Whitman -- Part I. Reclaiming space through presence making. 1. Remembering our ancestors : photographing Mission San Gabriel's cemetery / Yve Chavez -- 2. The aftermath : visualizing genocide / Stephen Gilchrist -- 3. Sámi Dáiddamusea is not a metaphor / Jérémie McGowan and Anne May Olli -- 4. Maria Hupfield's Nine years towards the sun : reflections on Survival and other acts of defiance in performative art practice / Michelle J. Lanteri -- Part II. Control of historical resources, reappropriation. 5. Owning hate, owning hurt : the aesthetics of violence in American Indian contemporary art / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- 6. Translations / reanimations / presences : Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project and the remaking of Umo'ho' archives / Emily L. Voelker -- 7. Probing the surface : artist Chris Pappan's material and conceptual work with ledger art / Iris Colburn -- 8. Marwin Begaye : end of the trail as native humor / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- Part III. Embodiment and performance. 9. Emily Arthur : Final determinations : "Cherokee by blood" / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- 10. Dying to know you : critical insights from a case study of Indigenous representations in museums of the early republic / Ellen Fernandez-Sacco -- 11. Oklahome / T. Christopher Aplin and Nancy Marie Mithlo -- 12. Richard Ray Whitman : Street chiefs revisited / Nancy Marie Mithlo.

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    History of Medicine
    YW.AN.6
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  • 9780816542314
  • 0816542317