A wealth of thought : Franz Boas on Native American art

Book 1995

In the nineteenth century, scholars who wrote about art of native peoples assumed that all art lay on a continuum from primitive to advanced: artworks of all nonliterate peoples were therefore examples of early stages of development. Boas was familiar with evolutionary theory in both the European and American art literature, and he set about to dispute much of what his contemporaries held as truths. Case studies from his own fieldwork on the Nort...

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ISBN:

9780295973845
9780295973258
1550541803
0295973846
0295973250

Description:

xiv, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-355) and index

Contents:

Introduction ; The development of Franz's Boas's theories on primitive art / Aldona Jonaitis
1. Tattooing of the Haida (Transactions, New York Academy of Sciences, 1889)
2. Use of masks and head ornaments on the northwest coast of America (Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, 1890)
3. Decorative art of the Indians of the north Pacific coast (Science, 1896)
4. Decorative art of the Indians of the north Pacific coast (Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1897)
5. Facial paintings of the Indians of northern British Columbia (American Museum of Natural History Memoirs, 1898)
6. Art of the Thompson Indians (in "The Thompson Indians of British Columbia", by James Teit, American Museum of Natural History Memoirs, 1900)
Decorative art of the North American Indians (Popular Science monthly, 1903)
8. Primitive art (American Museum Journal, 1904)
9. Notes on the blanket designs (in "The Chilkat blanket," by George T. Emmons, American Museum of Natural History Memoirs, 1907)
10. Decorative designs of Alaskan needlecases : a study in the history of conventional designs, based on materials in the U.S. National Museum (Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, 1908)
11. Clubs made of bone of whale (in "Archaeology of the Gulf of Georgia and Puget Sound," by Harlan Smith, American Museum of Natural History Memoirs, 1908)
12. Representative art of primitive peoples (Holmes Anniversary Volume, Washington, D.C., 1916)
13. Introduction to Primitive art (reprint of 1927 edition; New York : Dover)
14. Conclusion to Primitive art (reprint of 1927 edition; New York : Dover)
The Boasian legacy in Northwest coast art studies / Aldona Jonaitis

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94015180

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54844

Other Authors:

Jonaitis, Aldona, 1948-

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