Object lives and global histories in northern North America : material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980 / edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lemire, Beverly, 1950- editor.

Peers, Laura L. (Laura Lynn), editor.

Whitelaw, Anne, 1966- editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Material culture--Canada--History--Case studies.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous art--Canada--Case studies.

Indigenous art.

Cultural relations--History--Case studies.

Cultural relations.

Indigenous peoples--Material culture.

History.

Canada.

Genre:

Case studies.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 10, 450 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories. Red River coats, prints of colonial places and peoples, Indigenous-made dolls, and an Englishwoman's collection provide case studies of art and material culture that correct and give nuance to global and imperial histories. The result of a collaborative research process involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors, this book looks closely at the circumstances of making, use, and circulation of these objects: things that supported and defined both Indigenous resistance and colonial and imperial purposes. Contributors re-envision the histories of northern North America by focusing on the lives of things flowing to and from this vast region between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, showing how material culture is a critical link that tied this diverse landscape to the wider world. An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America provides a key analytical and methodological lens that exposes the complexity of cultural encounters and connections between local and global communities."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Object Lives: Innovating Methodology / Anne Whitelaw

Sidebar 1 Management and Methodology / Anne Whitelaw

2. Crossing Worlds: Hide Coats, Relationships, and Identity in Rupert's Land and Britain / Laura Peers

3. "A Typical Canadian Outfit": The Red River Coat / Cynthia Cooper

Sidebar 2 The Huron-Wendat Capot / Cynthia Cooper

Sidebar 3 The Red River Coat and Its Commercial Promotion / Cynthia Cooper

4. Colonizing Winter: Tobogganing, Toboggan Suits, and Imperial Agendas in the Northlands, c. 1800-1900 / Beverly Lemire

Sidebar 4 Gifts of Empire / Beverly Lemire

5. Peter Rindisbacher and the Imagined North: Circulations, Realities, and Representations / Julie-Ann Mercer

6. The Wampum and the Print: Objects Tied to Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi's London Visit, 1824-1825 / Anne Whitelaw

Sidebar 5 Active Imperial Networks / Anne Whitelaw

7. A Brief History of a Complicated Sweater: Appropriation, Arctic Sovereignty, and Postwar Winter Fashion / Laurie K. Bertram

8. Clare Sheridan: British Writer, Sculptor, and Collector in Blackfoot Country, 1937 / Sarah Carter

9. Dolls, Women's Art, and Indigenous Networks in the Borderlands of Northern North America, 1885-1945 / Katie Pollock

10. Dew Claw Bags, Indigenous Women, and Material Culture in History and Practice / Judy Half

11. Inscribing the North West: Hide Jackets and Colonial Surveyors / Susan Berry

Sidebar 6 Jackets in Circulation / Susan Berry

12. From the Sanatorium to the Museum and Beyond: The Circulation of Art and Craft Made by Indigenous Patients at Tuberculosis Hospitals / Sara Komarnisky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0228003997

9780228003991

0228003989

9780228003984

OCLC:

1143617046