Switchbacks
Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2011
- Category
- Native American, Native American Studies
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774841306
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $30.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812283
- Publish Date
- Jan 2007
- List Price
- $30.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812276
- Publish Date
- Mar 2006
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
Switchbacks explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling and buying Nuxalk art fit into attempts to regain control of heritage?
About the author
Jennifer Kramer holds a joint position as assistant professor in the department of anthropology and as curator of the Pacific Northwest at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She has worked with the Nuxalk Nation of Bella Coola, BC, since 1994 on cultural renewal, Nuxalk-controlled education, art production, representation, and repatriation, and the art market. Kramer has worked with the Kwakwaka'wakw since 2004 to collaborate on the care and curation of their cultural heritage in collections at the Museum of Anthropology. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.