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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples
The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their
commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were
warning that the faking of objects ranging from catlinite pipes to
Chumash sculpture was rampant. Through a series of historical and
contemporary case studies, Janet Catherine Berlo engages with
troubling and sometimes confusing categories of inauthenticity.
Based on decades of research as well as interviews with curators,
collectors, restorers, replica makers, reenactors, and Native
artists and cultural specialists, Not Native American Art examines
the historical and social contexts within which people make
replicas and fakes or even invent new objects that then become
"traditional." Berlo follows the unexpected trajectories of such
objects, including Northwest Coast carvings, "Navajo" rugs made in
Mexico, Zuni mask replicas, Lakota-style quillwork, and Mimbres
bowl forgeries. With engaging anecdotes, the book offers a rich and
nuanced understanding of a surprisingly wide range of practices
that makers have used to produce objects that are "not Native
American art."
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