The Force of Family: Repatriation, Kinship, and Memory on Haida Gwaii - Couverture souple

Krmpotich, Cara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1442614501 ISBN 13 : 9781442614505

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2014

Synopsis

Over the course of more than a decade, the Haida Nation triumphantly returned home all known Haida ancestral remains from North American museums. In the summer of 2010, they achieved what many thought was impossible: the repatriation of ancestral remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford. The Force of Family is an ethnography of those efforts to repatriate ancestral remains from museums around the world.

Focusing on objects made to honour the ancestors, Cara Krmpotich explores how memory, objects, and kinship connect and form a cultural archive. Since the mid-1990s, Haidas have been making button blankets and bentwood boxes with clan crest designs, hosting feasts for hundreds of people, and composing and choreographing new songs and dances in the service of repatriation. The book comes to understand how shared experiences of sewing, weaving, dancing, cooking and feasting lead to the Haida notion of "respect," the creation of kinship and collective memory, and the production of a cultural archive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cara Krmpotich is an assistant professor in the Museum Studies program, Faculty of Information, at the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442614501
• ISBN 13: 9781442614505
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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