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Fighting with property a study of Kwakiutl potlatching and warfare, 1792-1930.Codere, Helen F., January 1900 (has links)
Thesis--Columbia University. / Thesis statement on label mounted on t.p. Bibliography: p. 130-135.
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The social life of names : personhood and exchange among the Tsimshian /Roth, Christopher Fritz. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology, August 2000. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
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Surviving the dark years: transformations of Kwakwaka'wakw cosmological expression, 1884-1967 /Robinson, Zachary B. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.
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Accumulated labours : First Nations art in British Columbia, 1922-1961Hawker, Ronald W. 11 1900 (has links)
In this dissertation, I chart the conflicting and shifting
assertions of meaning for Northwest Coast objects in Canada
through a series of representational projects implemented between
1922 and 1961, beginning in January 1922, with the prosecution by
the Department of Indian Affairs of participants in the Cranmer
potlatch. The intersection between the concept of the 'fatal
impact' or death of First Nations societies under European
modernization, federal assimilationist policies, the government's
exercise of disciplinary control, and the expansion of public
museum collections was explicitly illustrated when the Lekwiltok,
Mamalillikulla, and the Nimpkish peoples surrendered over
seventeen cases of ceremonial objects in exchange for suspended
sentences for violating the potlatch ban.
The dissertation concludes by examining the Gitanyow
agreement, engineered between 1958 and 1961, in which Gitanyow
laws, histories and territories would be published by the
government of British Columbia in exchange for the removal and
replication of four crest poles. The raising of the poles'
replicas in 1961 coincided with Canadian parliament's approval of
the enfranchisement of First Nations people, the theoretical end
to the era of assimilation in Canada.
These events bookend a period in which representation
continued to be entwined with politica and social conditions
created by the Indian Act that depended on promulgating views
that First Nations lifeways were vanishing. However, production
of Northwest Coast objects retained significance throughout this
period, such objects playing complex and multifaceted roles. Because of the symbolic and financial value many Euro-Canadians
attached to First Nations objects, "art" proved an avenue for
communicating First Nations-related social, political and
economic issues.
The objects produced or displayed between 1922 and 1961
operated through the projects I describe in the intertwined
transformative processes of identity construction and boundary
marking among individual First Nations groups and within Canadian
national identity. Through these projects, important steps were
taken in formulating two major characteristics of the post-1960
period: 1. a burgeoning market in Northwest Coast objects
constructed as "traditional;" and 2. First Nations activism for
land claims and self-determination using "tradition" and "art" as
a platform in activism for land claims and self-determination.
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The Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch Collection and its Many Social Contexts: Constructing a Collection’s Object BiographyKnight, Emma Louise 29 November 2013 (has links)
In 1921, the Canadian government confiscated over 400 pieces of Kwakwaka’wakw potlatch regalia and placed it in three large museums. In 1967 the Kwakwaka'wakw initiated a long process of repatriation resulting in the majority of the collection returning to two Kwakwaka’wakw cultural centres over the last four decades. Through the theoretical framework of object biography and using the museum register as a tool to reconstruct the lives of the potlatch regalia, this thesis explores the multiple paths, diversions and oscillations between objecthood and subjecthood that the collection has undergone. This thesis constructs an exhibition history for the regalia, examines processes of institutional forgetting, and adds multiple layers of meaning to the collection's biography by attending to the post-repatriation life of the objects. By revisiting this pivotal Canadian case, diversions are emphasized as important moments in the creation of subjecthood and objecthood for museum objects.
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The Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch Collection and its Many Social Contexts: Constructing a Collection’s Object BiographyKnight, Emma Louise 29 November 2013 (has links)
In 1921, the Canadian government confiscated over 400 pieces of Kwakwaka’wakw potlatch regalia and placed it in three large museums. In 1967 the Kwakwaka'wakw initiated a long process of repatriation resulting in the majority of the collection returning to two Kwakwaka’wakw cultural centres over the last four decades. Through the theoretical framework of object biography and using the museum register as a tool to reconstruct the lives of the potlatch regalia, this thesis explores the multiple paths, diversions and oscillations between objecthood and subjecthood that the collection has undergone. This thesis constructs an exhibition history for the regalia, examines processes of institutional forgetting, and adds multiple layers of meaning to the collection's biography by attending to the post-repatriation life of the objects. By revisiting this pivotal Canadian case, diversions are emphasized as important moments in the creation of subjecthood and objecthood for museum objects.
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Accumulated labours : First Nations art in British Columbia, 1922-1961Hawker, Ronald W. 11 1900 (has links)
In this dissertation, I chart the conflicting and shifting
assertions of meaning for Northwest Coast objects in Canada
through a series of representational projects implemented between
1922 and 1961, beginning in January 1922, with the prosecution by
the Department of Indian Affairs of participants in the Cranmer
potlatch. The intersection between the concept of the 'fatal
impact' or death of First Nations societies under European
modernization, federal assimilationist policies, the government's
exercise of disciplinary control, and the expansion of public
museum collections was explicitly illustrated when the Lekwiltok,
Mamalillikulla, and the Nimpkish peoples surrendered over
seventeen cases of ceremonial objects in exchange for suspended
sentences for violating the potlatch ban.
The dissertation concludes by examining the Gitanyow
agreement, engineered between 1958 and 1961, in which Gitanyow
laws, histories and territories would be published by the
government of British Columbia in exchange for the removal and
replication of four crest poles. The raising of the poles'
replicas in 1961 coincided with Canadian parliament's approval of
the enfranchisement of First Nations people, the theoretical end
to the era of assimilation in Canada.
These events bookend a period in which representation
continued to be entwined with politica and social conditions
created by the Indian Act that depended on promulgating views
that First Nations lifeways were vanishing. However, production
of Northwest Coast objects retained significance throughout this
period, such objects playing complex and multifaceted roles. Because of the symbolic and financial value many Euro-Canadians
attached to First Nations objects, "art" proved an avenue for
communicating First Nations-related social, political and
economic issues.
The objects produced or displayed between 1922 and 1961
operated through the projects I describe in the intertwined
transformative processes of identity construction and boundary
marking among individual First Nations groups and within Canadian
national identity. Through these projects, important steps were
taken in formulating two major characteristics of the post-1960
period: 1. a burgeoning market in Northwest Coast objects
constructed as "traditional;" and 2. First Nations activism for
land claims and self-determination using "tradition" and "art" as
a platform in activism for land claims and self-determination. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate
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Weaving, Sawing and Houses: A Trans-Systemic Aboriginal Rights Framework2013 December 1900 (has links)
Chief Justice Lamer has stated that the doctrine of Aboriginal rights exists and is recognized by section 35(1) of the Canadian constitution because of the “one simple fact” that Aboriginal peoples were already here, living in what became Canada when Europeans arrived. As a result, the purpose of Aboriginal rights is to reconcile the pre-existence of Aboriginal peoples with the Crown. Yet both the conception of reconciliation and the test Lamer C.J. developed to fulfil the purpose underlying s. 35(1) are fraught with numerous problems and contradictions. This thesis adapts the relational approach in anthropology to create a trans-systemic legal framework for Aboriginal rights that allows a more equitable reconciliation than that advanced by Lamer C.J. and avoids the pitfalls of the courts’ current approach.
I begin by exploring how the Court’s conceptions of society and culture, in particular, are the source of the problems in their approach to Aboriginal rights. Focusing in on the Court’s use of “culture,” I then discuss the intellectual foundations of the notion and go through the three phases of the test for Aboriginal rights showing how those foundations have influenced it and the dilemmas and barriers “culture” creates for both the courts and Aboriginal claimants.
One of my major, continuing criticisms of the Court’s approach is that by focusing on culture, the lives and perspectives of Aboriginal claimants and their ancestors are marginalized, and so my proposed trans-systemic framework is based on “re-enlivening” Aboriginal rights. By focusing on life, rather than culture, I argue that this more ably meets the goals and purposes of s. 35(1). This refocusing also results in a different relationship between Aboriginal peoples, the Court and the Crown, and I conclude this thesis with a discussion of how the convergence of Aboriginal legal systems and the common law in Canada may occur.
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Salmon: A Scientific MemoirIsabella, Jude 28 August 2013 (has links)
The reason for this story was to investigate a narrative that is important to the identity of North America’s Pacific Northwest Coast – a narrative that revolves around wild salmon, a narrative that always seemed too simple to me, a narrative that gives salmon a mythical status, and yet what does the average person know about this fish other than it floods grocery stores in fall and tastes good. How do we know this fish that supposedly defines the natural world of this place?
I began my research as a science writer, inspired by John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez, in which he writes that the best way to achieve reality is by combining narrative with scientific data. So I went looking for a different story from the one most people read about in popular media, a story that’s overwhelmingly about conflict: I searched for a narrative that combines the science of what we know about salmon and a story of the scientists who study the fish, either directly or indirectly. I tried to follow Steinbeck’s example and include the narrative journeys we take in understanding the world around us, the journeys that rarely make it into scientific journals.
I went on about eight field trips with biology, ecology, and archaeology lab teams from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans onboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship the W.E. Ricker, and an archaeological crew from the Laich-Kwil-Tach Treaty Society in Campbell River, B.C.
At the same time, I was reading a number of things, including a 1938 dissertation by anthropologist Homer Barnett from the University of Oregon titled The Nature and Function of the Potlatch, a 2011 book by economist Ronald Trosper at the University of Arizona, Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics, and works by psychologist Douglas Medin at Northwestern University and anthropologist Scott Atran at the University of Michigan, written over the past two decades, particular paying attention to their writings on taxonomy and folkbiology.
My conclusions surprised me, a little. / Graduate / 0329 / 0324 / 0391
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Salmon: A Scientific MemoirIsabella, Jude 28 August 2013 (has links)
The reason for this story was to investigate a narrative that is important to the identity of North America’s Pacific Northwest Coast – a narrative that revolves around wild salmon, a narrative that always seemed too simple to me, a narrative that gives salmon a mythical status, and yet what does the average person know about this fish other than it floods grocery stores in fall and tastes good. How do we know this fish that supposedly defines the natural world of this place?
I began my research as a science writer, inspired by John Steinbeck’s The Log from the Sea of Cortez, in which he writes that the best way to achieve reality is by combining narrative with scientific data. So I went looking for a different story from the one most people read about in popular media, a story that’s overwhelmingly about conflict: I searched for a narrative that combines the science of what we know about salmon and a story of the scientists who study the fish, either directly or indirectly. I tried to follow Steinbeck’s example and include the narrative journeys we take in understanding the world around us, the journeys that rarely make it into scientific journals.
I went on about eight field trips with biology, ecology, and archaeology lab teams from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans onboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship the W.E. Ricker, and an archaeological crew from the Laich-Kwil-Tach Treaty Society in Campbell River, B.C.
At the same time, I was reading a number of things, including a 1938 dissertation by anthropologist Homer Barnett from the University of Oregon titled The Nature and Function of the Potlatch, a 2011 book by economist Ronald Trosper at the University of Arizona, Resilience, Reciprocity and Ecological Economics, and works by psychologist Douglas Medin at Northwestern University and anthropologist Scott Atran at the University of Michigan, written over the past two decades, particular paying attention to their writings on taxonomy and folkbiology.
My conclusions surprised me, a little. / Graduate / 0329 / 0324 / 0391
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