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category: Art
published: Jan 2007
ISBN:9780774812283
publisher: UBC Press

Switchbacks

Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity

by Jennifer Kramer

tagged: native american studies, native american
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.
Contributor Notes

Jennifer Kramer holds a joint position at the University of British Columbia as Curator of Northwest Coast Ethnology at the Museum of Anthropology and as Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

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