Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest

Molly H. Mullin

Published by Duke University Press 2001

Culture in the Marketplace

Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest

Molly H. Mullin
Edited by: Nicholas Thomas

In the series Objects/Histories

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380603

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About this book

The creation of the Indian art market in the Southwest in the 20s and 30s.

Author / Editor information

Molly Mullin is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Albion College.

Reviews

“Mullin makes a real contribution by exploring the dynamics of identity and social relations on the one side and knowledge and consumption on the other in her case study of the affluent women who influenced the direction and caste of the Indian art market.”—Charles McGovern, National Museum of American History

“This excellent and interesting work contributes to the question of how discourses about ‘art’ and ‘art-making’ circulate broadly within society. With subtlety and care Mullin traces out how ‘Indian arts’ and the Southwest come to have distinctive meanings within the context of American culture and its historical situation. It is a model of what an anthropology that links political economy, gender, and interpretation can and should do.”—Fred Myers, coeditor of The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Art and Anthropology

“Reader-friendly. Anyone interested in Santa Fe history, Indian art, or women’s studies will find Culture in the Marketplace a fascinating book.”

-- Gretchen Garner Santa Fe New Mexican

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
ONE Culture and Cultures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
TWO Elizabeth Sergeant, Buying and Selling the Southwest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
THREE Shopping for a Better World in a ‘‘City of Ladies’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
FOUR The Patronage of Difference: Making Indian Art ‘‘Art, not Ethnology’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
FIVE Culture and Value at Indian Market Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Epilogue: In the Dog Cemetery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Other: 10 b&w photographs

eBook

Published: March 20, 2001
ISBN: 9780822380603