The totem pole : an intercultural history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jonaitis, Aldona, 1948-
Other Authors: Glass, Aaron
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : Vancouver : University of Washington Press ; Douglas & McIntyre, [2010]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Excursions : toward an intercultural biography of the totem pole
  • pt. 1. Totem poles in the colonial imagination
  • On commerce and cultures : explorers and merchants encounter carved columns
  • The rise and fall of totem poles : the dynamics of settler colonialism and the emergence of anthropology
  • "Places of totemic delight" : significant sights/sites on the Northwest coast
  • Totems for tourists : on salvage and salvation
  • The expansion of totem pole form : minis, maxis, and multiples (or, the small, the tall, and the kitschy)
  • pt. 2. The global circulation of totem poles
  • Transforming emblems at museums and expositions : poles in the global village
  • "Monuments in multichrome" : totem poles and the promotion of place
  • Beyond restoration : the work of Wilson Duff
  • High art from rainy places : the "Renaissance" of totem carving
  • pt. 3. Current cultures of the totem pole
  • Beyond fairs : contemporary cultural tourism and ethnokitsch
  • Family trees and tribal treaties : on the politics of poles
  • Totem poles and the mediation of colonial encounter
  • Appendix A: A selected and annotated list of books on totem poles
  • Appendix B: Primary eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reports of monumental carvings on the Northwest coast (1778-1900)
  • Appendix C: A selection of early illustrations of totem poles and major photographic expeditions (1778-1900)
  • Appendix D: A selective list of poles collected or commissioned for destinations abroad (1880-1970)
  • Appendix E: A selection of totem poles at regional, national and international expositions (1876-1994)
  • Appendix F: A selection of totem poles at British Columbian and Canadian celebrations (1936-1986)
  • Appendix G: A selection of poles raised in or for Native communities (1957-1988).