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Writing the Hamat'sa
- Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance
Engelsk Paperback

Writing the Hamat'sa

- Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance
Engelsk Paperback

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Long known as the Cannibal Dance, the Hamat?sa is among the most important hereditary prerogatives of the Kwakwa_ka_?wakw of British Columbia. In the late nineteenth century, as anthropologists arrived to document the practice, colonial agents were pursuing its eradication and Kwakwa_ka_?wakw were adapting it to endure. In the process, the dance – with dramatic choreography, magnificent bird masks, and an aura of cannibalism – entered a vast library of ethnographic texts. Writing the Hamat?sa offers a critical survey of attempts to record, describe, and interpret the dance over four centuries. Going beyond postcolonial critiques of representation that often ignore Indigenous agency in the ethnographic encounter, Writing the Hamat?sa focuses on forms of textual mediation and Indigenous response that helped transofrm the ceremony from a set of specific performances into a generalized cultural icon. This meticulous work illuminates how Indigenous people contribute to, contest, and repurpose texts in the process of fashioning modern identities under settler colonialism.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
512
ISBN-13:
9780774863780
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0774863781
Udg. Dato:
15 mar 2022
Længde:
37mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
University of British Columbia Press
Oplagsdato:
15 mar 2022
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