ARTH 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Consumerism
16 Apr 2016
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Chapter 1: interpreing cultural symbols of the people from the shore, daisy sewid-smith. Totem poles: chronological storytelling; ancestral interactions; the become part of the status of the family and stories of who they are. T-shape in front of chest: raised bar (spine) of copper shield; symbol of high status individual. Copper: make a reference of salmon, symbolizing centre of creature, body; symbol of. Coast salish gathering in victoria (originally their land) Not the same criteria for analyzing western art; representation of ancestral figure; its meaning is not in its representation, but its being. Masks in museums: cannot be touched or handled, but defeats its cultural purpose; wherever they are, they should be wrapped up in histories and traditions. It is who we are, i am my father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather; all of those people are who i am ;
