Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art under-25 Bird Studies Canada

Bird Studies Canada

Readers will come away with an appreciation of the salmon as well as their interaction with their environment

and others

I visited the Yukon last winter and discovered a warm and friendly people who are crazy about good cooking

This book informs the curious lay person who wants to gain a basic understanding of the salmon

Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art under-25 Bird Studies CanadaBy Judith Ostrowitz UBC Press What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why,when most of art history is a history of the avant garde, is tradition so deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and their patrons? In Privileging the Past Judith Ostrowitz approaches these questions through a careful consideration of replicas,reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks,