Eternal sovereigns : Indigenous artists, activists, and travelers reframing Rome / Gloria Jane Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Gloria Jane, 1986- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Missions--North America.

Catholic Church.

Esposizione missionaria vaticana (1924-1927 : Vatican City).

Esposizione missionaria vaticana.

Indians of North America--Material culture.

Indians of North America.

Indian art--North America.

Indian art.

Museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects.

Museums.

Museums and Indigenous peoples.

Ethnological museums and collections--Vatican City.

Ethnological museums and collections.

Colonization--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Eternal Sovereigns explores transnational art histories of Indigeneity that engaged with Rome and the Vatican from 1833 to the present day. Analyzing archives, artists, and visual evidence across Italy and the Indigenous North America known as Turtle Island, Gloria Jane Bell aims to unsettle the colonial assumptions and discourse put forth by Vatican missionary institutions through archives that falsely emphasized protection and valued exoticism. In doing so, Bell illuminates an untold chapter of the church's history and reveals the global circulation of Indigenous arts in the early twentieth century at the Vatican. Bell argues for the agency of Indigenous materials as cultural belongings and travelers that were sent to Rome but never returned home. Thinking self-reflexively as an Indigenous scholar of Métis heritage, Bell also incorporates her own narrative and art as a method of destabilizing the power of archives and expanding the realm of what counts as art history. In doing so, she explores the range of Indigenous experience, highlights the audacious perseverance of Indigenous artists under colonial duress, and reclaims and restores the sovereignty retained over Indigenous visual and material culture."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A nomad in the Roman archives : writing from the margins

Unsettling the Indian Museum in Rome : Ferdinand Pettrich and Edmonia Wildfire Lewis

"The most exhaustive record of the world's progress ever displayed" : Pope Pius XI's culture of conquest and visitors' experiences at the Vatican Missionary Exposition

"A window on the world" of colonial unknowing : dioramas, children's games, and missionary perspectives on the Vatican Missionary Exposition

Eternal sovereigns and ancestral art : ancient archives, relatives, and travelers at the Vatican Missionary Exposition

Deus ex machina.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Bell, Gloria Jane, 1986- Eternal sovereigns.

ISBN:

9781478059844

1478059842

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.