Awards
- Commended for Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award, Council for Museum Anthropology 2020 (United States)
- Short-listed for Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize, UBC Library 2019 (Canada)
- Short-listed for Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize, Society for Economic Anthropology 2020 (Canada)
- Winner of K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press 2019 (Canada)
Overview
Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local artistic and cultural practice. But what happens when local communities become more involved in this cultural marketplace? Incorporating Culture examines how Indigenous artists and entrepreneurs are cultivating more equitable relationships with the companies that reproduce their designs on everyday objects. Moving beyond the assumption that cultural commodification is necessarily exploitative, Solen Roth illustrates the processes by which Indigenous people have been asserting control over the Northwest Coast art industry, reshaping it to reflect Indigenous models of property, relationships, and economics.
Full Product Details
Author: Solen Roth
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Imprint: University of British Columbia Press
Weight: 0.480kg
ISBN: 9780774837385
ISBN 10: 0774837381
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[Incorporating Culture] will resonate with those interested in the confluence of Indigenous artware and tourist souvenir markets throughout the world. [...] All readers will benefit from time spent with this well-told story of cultural adaptation and change, particularly because it refutes notions of Indigenous erasure and, instead, emphasises Indigenous resiliency. -- Thomas McIlwraith * Anthropologica * Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People are Reshapingthe Northwest Coast Art Industry takes a fresh look at Northwest Coast art through the exploration of economic, legal, and social issues. (published Fall 2020) -- Carolyn Butler-Palmer * RACAR *
Author Information
Solen Roth is a cultural anthropologist currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Université de Montréal School of Design. She has published in the Journal of Material Culture and Collaborative Anthropologies, and contributed to Jennifer Kramer’s Ḱesu’: The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer. From 2010 to 2016, she co-chaired the Commodification of Cultural Heritage working group for the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage research project at Simon Fraser University.
