Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference
- ISBN-10
- 0367314770
- ISBN-13
- 9780367314774
- Category
- Art and society
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-08-28
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Deborah Root
Description
In Arizona, a white family buys a Navajo-style blanket to be used on the guest-room bed. Across the country in New York, opera patrons weep to the death scene of Madam Butterfly. These seemingly unrelated events intertwine in Cannibal Culture as Deborah Root examines the ways Western art and Western commerce co-opt, pigeonhole, and commodify so-cal
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