Talk about the forbidden tradition of Potlatch for the indigenous people, focus on the humanities education and art history aspect. The theme of this paper is about the forbidden tradition.
don’t forget to cite the sources
the only sources you can use:
films:
Potlatch: A Strict Law Bids Us Dance (Links to an external site.), Chuck Olin and Dennis Wheeler.
Blunden Harbor (Links to an external site.), Robert Gardner.
Box of Treasures (Links to an external site.), Chuck Olin and Dennis Wheeler.
articles:
- Bunn-Marcuse, “Kwakwaka’wakw Culture on Film,” in Walking a Tight Rope: Representations of Aboriginal People by Themselves and Others. 2005, pp. 305-333
- Umista Cultural Center Living Tradition: The Kwakwaka’wakw Potlatch on the on the Northwest Coast. Browse linked website, read articles, view short films.
- Morris, Rosalind “Through a Glass Darkly: Terms and Problems for Analysis” excerpts p.11-19, 32-38; and “The Center Will Not Hold: New Visions in Visual Anthropology” (on Gardner film), pp. 101-109 in New Worlds from Fragments: Film, Ethnography and the Representation of Northwest Coast Culture, 1994.
- Ruby, Jay, excerpts of “Robert Gardner and Anthropological Cinema ” pp.96-98, 110-113, in Picturing Culture, 2000.
- Review: Dowell, Kristin. “Pushing Boundaries, Defying Categories” (Find short 2-page excerpt in week 1 reading) pp. 834-835 on Barbara Cranmer.
show skills essential in your humanities education and art history include:
- critical reading and analysis of sources (both written and visual),
- “reading” a work of art or film
- describing a visual experience in words
- developing a thesis statement (and argument)
- utilizing evidence to support your argument
- using primary and secondary sources appropriately
- citing sources correctly
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