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Switchbacks: Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity
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Switchbacks: Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity Hardback - 2006

by Jennifer Kramer

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Switchbacks explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling and buying Nuxalk art fit into attempts to regain control of heritage?

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Switchback explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling and buying Nuxalk art fit into attempts to regain control of heritage?

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  • Title Switchbacks: Art, Ownership, and Nuxalk National Identity
  • Author Jennifer Kramer
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of British Columbia Press
  • Publication date March 2006
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780774812276 / 0774812273
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 5.91 x 0.71 in (23.01 x 15.01 x 1.80 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Aboriginal/Native Studies
  • Category Ethnic Issues
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006445100
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971.110

About the author

Jennifer Kramer holds a joint position at the University of British Columbia as Curator of Northwest Coast Ethnology at the Museum of Anthropology and as Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

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