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Unpacking Culture Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, 1999.Entry/Object ID
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Unpacking Culture Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds. Written by Pillips, Ruth B. and Christopher B. Steiner. Front cover shows a trunk filled with different Native American Artifacts.
"This book considers the explosive consequences of global commerce and tourism on the arts of North America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania from the eighteenth century to the present. Although crucial to many indigenous economies and traditions of cultural expression, these so called tourist arts have generally been dismissed as inauthentic and largely undeserving of scholarly recognition. Through a series of case studies investigating the complexity of making, selling, and buying art objects destined for external consumption, these essays raise important questions about how objects acquire value and meaning in transcultural exchange..."
"Unpacking Culture is not simply about art, it is also, and more broadly, about the economic and social vortex created by colonialism, which has both generated and affected artistic expression in every society it has touched, and has, in turn, been affected by the artists who expressed its consequences. The volume registers the current state of research and establishes a new benchmark for studies in this field."Collection
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