Writing the Hamatsa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance - Couverture souple

Glass, Aaron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774863781 ISBN 13 : 9780774863780

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2022

Synopsis

An exploration of the Hamatsa, a ritual dance of the Kwakwaka'wakw people of British Columbia.

Despite settler attempts to eradicate the Hamat'sa, the "cannibal dance" remains an important prerogative of the Kwakwaka'wakw people. While generations of anthropologists sought to document the ceremony's past, the Kwakwaka'wakw adapted and preserved its dramatic choreography and magnificent bird masks for the future.

Writing the Hamat'sa offers a critical survey of efforts to record and interpret the ritual over the past four centuries. Drawing on close, contextualized reading of published texts, extensive archival research, and fieldwork, Aaron Glass goes beyond postcolonial critiques that often ignore Indigenous agency to show how the Kwakwaka'wakw have responded to an ethnographic legacy that helped transform specific performances into a broad cultural icon. The result is a fascinating study of how Indigenous peoples both contribute to and repurpose texts to shape modern identities under settler colonialism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Aaron Glass is an associate professor at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, coauthor of The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History, and director of the documentary In Search of the Hamatsa: A Tale of Headhunting.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774863781
• ISBN 13: 9780774863780
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible