The totem pole: an intercultural history

Abstract

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue 1. Excursions: Toward an Intercultural Biography of the Totem Pole PART ONE: Totem Poles in the Colonial Imagination2. On Commerce and Cultures: Explorers and Merchants Encounter Carved Columns3. The Dynamics of Settler Colonialism, the Rise and Fall of Totem Poles, and the Emergence of Anthropology4. Places of Totemic Delight: Significant Sights / Sites on the Northwest Coast5. Totems for Tourists: On Salvage and Salvation6. The Expansion of Totem Pole Form: Minis, Maxis, and Multiples (or, the Small, the Tall, and the Kitschy) PART TWO: The Global Circulation of Totem Poles7. Transforming Emblems at Museums and Expositions: Poles in the Global Village8. Monuments in Multichrome: Totem Poles and the Promotion of Place9. Beyond Restoration: The Work of Wilson Duff10. High Art from Rainy Places: The Renaissance of Totem Carving PART THREE: Current Cultures of the Totem Pole11. Beyond Fairs: Contemporary Cultural Tourism and Ethnokitsch12. Family Trees and Tribal Treaties: On the Politics of Poles13. Totem Poles and the Mediation of Colonial Encounter Appendix A. A Selected and Annotated List of Books on Totem PolesAppendix B. Primary Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Reports of Monumental Carvings on the Northwest Coast (1778-1900) Appendix C. A Selection of Early Illustrations of Totem Poles and Major Photographic Expeditions (1778-1900)Appendix D. A Selective List of Poles Collected or Commissioned for Destinations Abroad (1880-1970)Appendix E. A Selection of Totem Poles at Regional, National and International Expositions (1876-1994)Appendix F. A Selection of Totem Poles at British Columbian and Canadian CelebrationsAppendix G. A Selection of Poles Raised in or for Native Communities (1957-1988) ReferencesIndex