North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native ... more North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native events. Research has rarely considered the processes by which powwows become places or the role of territorialization in that process. This article examines the socio-spatial practices powwow organizing committees employ to construct powwows and their arts and crafts markets as places from undifferentiated space and the responses to these practices. I suggest that powwow committees construct powwow space as a form of sovereign political space from which they can manage relations with multiple constituencies and in which contemporary conceptions of Nativeness are negotiated.
This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts m... more This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts market. Over the past century, the field of Indian art developed a system of valuation that employs the “negative relationship” to create a hierarchy of people, objects, and markets. Central to this system are regimes of value associated with art and commodity. I argue that the presence of the mass-produced makes it possible for artisan-vendors to employ the negative relationship to define, value, and make sustainable the artistic in the powwow market context. Ultimately, this marks artisan-vendors and mass-produced vendors as position-takers within the Indian art field.
In a world where technology is constantly changing and cultural institutions such as universities... more In a world where technology is constantly changing and cultural institutions such as universities and museums are being asked to do more with less, the question becomes how to improve efficiencies but also expand access. University based museums and collections, have, perhaps, an even greater challenge because their faculty and staff may focus on teaching, service, and publication in ways that do not directly support or integrate their collections or their collection/object related projects are turned primarily inward, through such projects as student papers. On the other hand, they have the opportunity to engage students in object-based research that can not only build student and faculty skills, but also create a sustainable public engagement opportunity. This paper presents the development of an online wiki repository of undergraduate, graduate and faculty research, publication, and creative endeavors related to the University of Rhode Island’s Historic Textile and Costume Collection (HTCC) housed in the Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design. The HTCC contains over 20,000 textiles, apparel, and related objects. The wiki project began in a sophomore-level Honors course TMD 224: Culture, Dress and Appearance during the spring 2013 semester as a private course tool, but with the expectation to migrate the student work to a public wiki that can be added to by future classes and faculty, and accessed by outside constituencies. Students designed the original wiki format, conducted object-based and donor history research, and created wiki pages instead of traditional research papers. This paper presents the challenges and opportunities of the wiki platform for teaching, historic object analysis, and public engagement.
North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native ... more North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native events. Research has rarely considered the processes by which powwows become places or the role of territorialization in that process. This article examines the socio-spatial practices powwow organizing committees employ to construct powwows and their arts and crafts markets as places from undifferentiated space and the responses to these practices. I suggest that powwow committees construct powwow space as a form of sovereign political space from which they can manage relations with multiple constituencies and in which contemporary conceptions of Nativeness are negotiated.
This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts m... more This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts market. Over the past century, the field of Indian art developed a system of valuation that employs the "negative relationship" to create a hierarchy of people, objects, and markets. Central to this system are regimes of value associated with art and commodity. I argue that the presence of the mass-produced makes it possible for artisan-vendors to employ the negative relationship to define, value, and make sustainable the artistic in the powwow market context. Ultimately, this marks artisan-vendors and mass-produced vendors as position-takers within the Indian art field.
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of diss... more UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Powwow arts and crafts markets and the engendering of social relationships. by Gagnon ...
North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native ... more North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native events. Research has rarely considered the processes by which powwows become places or the role of territorialization in that process. This article examines the socio-spatial practices powwow organizing committees employ to construct powwows and their arts and crafts markets as places from undifferentiated space and the responses to these practices. I suggest that powwow committees construct powwow space as a form of sovereign political space from which they can manage relations with multiple constituencies and in which contemporary conceptions of Nativeness are negotiated.
This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts m... more This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts market. Over the past century, the field of Indian art developed a system of valuation that employs the “negative relationship” to create a hierarchy of people, objects, and markets. Central to this system are regimes of value associated with art and commodity. I argue that the presence of the mass-produced makes it possible for artisan-vendors to employ the negative relationship to define, value, and make sustainable the artistic in the powwow market context. Ultimately, this marks artisan-vendors and mass-produced vendors as position-takers within the Indian art field.
In a world where technology is constantly changing and cultural institutions such as universities... more In a world where technology is constantly changing and cultural institutions such as universities and museums are being asked to do more with less, the question becomes how to improve efficiencies but also expand access. University based museums and collections, have, perhaps, an even greater challenge because their faculty and staff may focus on teaching, service, and publication in ways that do not directly support or integrate their collections or their collection/object related projects are turned primarily inward, through such projects as student papers. On the other hand, they have the opportunity to engage students in object-based research that can not only build student and faculty skills, but also create a sustainable public engagement opportunity. This paper presents the development of an online wiki repository of undergraduate, graduate and faculty research, publication, and creative endeavors related to the University of Rhode Island’s Historic Textile and Costume Collection (HTCC) housed in the Department of Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design. The HTCC contains over 20,000 textiles, apparel, and related objects. The wiki project began in a sophomore-level Honors course TMD 224: Culture, Dress and Appearance during the spring 2013 semester as a private course tool, but with the expectation to migrate the student work to a public wiki that can be added to by future classes and faculty, and accessed by outside constituencies. Students designed the original wiki format, conducted object-based and donor history research, and created wiki pages instead of traditional research papers. This paper presents the challenges and opportunities of the wiki platform for teaching, historic object analysis, and public engagement.
North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native ... more North American powwows are presented by organizers and presumed by society at large to be Native events. Research has rarely considered the processes by which powwows become places or the role of territorialization in that process. This article examines the socio-spatial practices powwow organizing committees employ to construct powwows and their arts and crafts markets as places from undifferentiated space and the responses to these practices. I suggest that powwow committees construct powwow space as a form of sovereign political space from which they can manage relations with multiple constituencies and in which contemporary conceptions of Nativeness are negotiated.
This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts m... more This article examines the relationship between people and objects in the powwow arts and crafts market. Over the past century, the field of Indian art developed a system of valuation that employs the "negative relationship" to create a hierarchy of people, objects, and markets. Central to this system are regimes of value associated with art and commodity. I argue that the presence of the mass-produced makes it possible for artisan-vendors to employ the negative relationship to define, value, and make sustainable the artistic in the powwow market context. Ultimately, this marks artisan-vendors and mass-produced vendors as position-takers within the Indian art field.
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of diss... more UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, Powwow arts and crafts markets and the engendering of social relationships. by Gagnon ...
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