Arctic/Amazon
Networks of Global Indigeneity
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2023
- Category
- Native American, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Art & Politics
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773103068
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $20.99
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781773102993
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $60.00
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Description
Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award
Honourable Mention, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Prose Illustrated)
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity offers a conversation between Indigenous Peoples of two regions in this time of political and environmental upheaval. Both regions are environmentally sensitive areas that have become hot spots in the debates circling around climate change and have long been contact zones between Indigenous Peoples and outsiders — zones of meeting and clashing, of contradictions and entanglement.
Opening with an Epistolary Exchange between the editors, Arctic/Amazon then widens to include essays by 12 Indigenous artists, curators, and knowledge-keepers about the integration of spirituality, ancestral respect, traditional knowledges, and political critique in artistic practice and more than 100 image reproductions and installation shots. The result is an extraordinary conversation about life, artistic practise, and geopolitical realities faced by Indigenous peoples in regions at risk.
About the authors
Gerald McMaster, PhD, is the Fredrik S. Eaton Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. During his tenure as Curator of Contemporary Indian Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1981-2000), he established the first Indian and Inuit gallery at the CMC. In 1992, he curated Indigena for the Canadian Museum of Man and co-authored the book Indigena: Contemporary Native Perspectives in Canadian Art. His publications include Reservation X (1998), Native Universe (2004) and Remix: New Modernities in a Post-Indian World (2007). In 1995, he served as Canadian Commissioner and curated Edward Poitras's exhibition at the Venice Biennale. From 2000 to 2004, he was Deputy Assistant Director for Cultural Resources at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. At NMAI, he curated First American Art (2004) and New Tribe / New York (2005). He was awarded the Order of Canada (2007) and the National Aboriginal Achievement Award in 2005.
Gerald McMaster's profile page
Nina Vincent is a Brazilian anthropologist, researcher, professor, and independent curator. She works for the Brazilian National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN).
Awards
- Honorable Mention, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Prose Illustrated)
- Honourable Mention, Alcuin Society Book Design Awards (Prose Illustrated)
- Long-listed, First Nation Communities READ Award
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