Indigenizing California mission art and architecture / Yve Chavez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chavez, Yve, author.

Contributor:

Kina, Laura.

Series:

Critical ethnic studies and visual culture.

Critical ethnic studies and visual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franciscans--Influence.

Franciscans.

Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)--History.

Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.).

Santa Barbara Mission--History.

Santa Barbara Mission.

Gabrielino Indians--Foreign influences.

Gabrielino Indians.

Gabrielino Indians--Missions.

Gabrielino Indians--Cultural assimilation.

Chumash Indians--Foreign influences.

Chumash Indians.

Chumash Indians--Missions.

Chumash Indians--Cultural assimilation.

Indian art--California, Southern--Foreign influences.

Indian art.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 220 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Between 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestral territories of many Native communities between present-day Sonoma and San Diego. In Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture, Gabrieleno Tongva scholar Yve Chavez highlights how these communities preserved their cultural practices amid colonial oppression. Rooted in Chavez's ancestral homeland and the neighboring Chumash region in coastal Southern California, her book focuses on Mission San Gabriel, Mission San Buenaventura, and Mission Santa Barbara. Recasting these sites as spaces of Native cultural heritage, Yve Chavez examines how Indigenous artists resisted assimilation while accommodating foreign ideas into their established practices. Drawing on Indigenous knowledge and art historical research of performance and regalia, basketry, sculpture, and architecture, Chavez demonstrates how Native artists navigated colonial power structures, ensuring the survival of their customs during the mission era and beyond. Rather than replacing Indigenous identity, the missions became spaces through which Native people asserted their connection to the landscape and its resources. This analysis not only recasts mission art and architecture within an Indigenizing framework but also serves as a resource for understanding the ongoing significance of these sites for the descendants of mission survivors"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Indigenous California and the Missions

Accommodation and Connection to Place

Chumash Weaving and Survivance

Chumash Materiality and Sculpture

Gabrieleño Architecture and Reclamation

Gabrieleño Practices and Identity after the Mission Era

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0295753595

9780295753591

OCLC:

1502070466