The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting (A McLellan Book)

This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline rather than with particular art works or artists. It focuses on the early anthropologists, museum curators, dealers, and collectors, and on the multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding, appropriation and reappropriation, that characterized their transactions. Includes 39 b&w illustrations. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.