Marjorie M Halpin
Biographic Data
| ID | 112339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie M Halpin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie M |
| FAMILY NAME | Halpin |
| SIGNATURE | HALPIN M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Critique of the Boasian Paradigm for Northwest Coast Art
Halpin challenges Franz Boas’s representationist reading of Northwest Coast art, and the hegemonic discourse that he initiated. In contrast to the Boasian rule-based paradigm, and with specific reference to Tsimshian-speaking peoples, she argues that Northwest Coast Native art is ambiguous, imaginative, unstable, poetic, endlessly variable, changing, and productive of the new, the unexpected. Of paramount importance in her analysis is the relatio…
Julia D. Harrison, Co-ordinating Curator, The Spirit Sings
Julia D. HARRISON, Co-ordinating Curator, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada ’s First Peoples, The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, January 15 - May 1; Ottawa, under the auspices of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, July 1 - November 6, 1988. Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 8, numéro 1, 1988, p. 3-111) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image
A Wealth of Thought
Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major historical value because they embody a profound change in art history. Nineteenth-century scholars assumed that all art lay on a continuum from pri…
The Tlingit Indians. George Thornton Emmons , Frederica de Laguna
Museums and the Appropriation of Culture
Part 1: Please don't touch the ceiling - the culture of appropriation museum theatre in the 1990s - trailblazer or camp-follower? childhood's pattern - appropriation by generation presenting a divisive culture - two exhibitions at the Ulster folk and transport museum appropriating the visitor by addressing the second person mobile museum in India labour history in museums Briton, Boer and black savage South Africa an archaeology of the DeWitt Wal…
Reading Material Culture
Shamanic Odyssey
Museums, markets, and modern anthropology
Stocking, George W., Jr., ed. Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture. History of Anthropology Volume III. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. viii + 258 pp. including chapter references and index. $25.00 cloth. Hatcher, Evelyn Payne. Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. With an Introduction by E. Adamson Hoebel. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985. xviii + 286 pp., in…
Interpretive Contexts for Traditional and Current Coast Tsimshian Feasts
Faces, Voices and Dreams
Spirit and Ancestor
The Eyes of Chief Seattle
Cultural Transformations
Recent Scholarship on Northwest Coast Indian Art
The Power of Symbols
The Power of Symbols
Power of Symbols
Manlike Monsters on Trial
Papers occasioned by a conference on Sasquatch and Similar Phenomena convened in May, 1978, by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Manlike Monsters on Trial. Early Records and Modern Evidence
Manlike Monsters on Trial
A Wealth of Thought
Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major historical value because they embody a profound change in art history. Nineteenth-century scholars assumed that all art lay on a continuum from pri…
Shamanic Odyssey
Reading Material Culture
Museums, markets, and modern anthropology
Stocking, George W., Jr., ed. Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture. History of Anthropology Volume III. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. viii + 258 pp. including chapter references and index. $25.00 cloth. Hatcher, Evelyn Payne. Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. With an Introduction by E. Adamson Hoebel. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985. xviii + 286 pp., in…
Spirit and Ancestor
The Power of Symbols
Manlike Monsters on Trial
Manlike Monsters on Trial. Early Records and Modern Evidence
Manlike Monsters on Trial
Papers occasioned by a conference on Sasquatch and Similar Phenomena convened in May, 1978, by the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Power of Symbols
The Power of Symbols
Cultural Transformations
Recent Scholarship on Northwest Coast Indian Art
The Power of Symbols
The Eyes of Chief Seattle
Spirit and Ancestor
Faces, Voices and Dreams
Museums, markets, and modern anthropology
Stocking, George W., Jr., ed. Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture. History of Anthropology Volume III. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. viii + 258 pp. including chapter references and index. $25.00 cloth. Hatcher, Evelyn Payne. Art as Culture: An Introduction to the Anthropology of Art. With an Introduction by E. Adamson Hoebel. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985. xviii + 286 pp., in…
Interpretive Contexts for Traditional and Current Coast Tsimshian Feasts
Reading Material Culture
Shamanic Odyssey
The Tlingit Indians. George Thornton Emmons , Frederica de Laguna
Museums and the Appropriation of Culture
Part 1: Please don't touch the ceiling - the culture of appropriation museum theatre in the 1990s - trailblazer or camp-follower? childhood's pattern - appropriation by generation presenting a divisive culture - two exhibitions at the Ulster folk and transport museum appropriating the visitor by addressing the second person mobile museum in India labour history in museums Briton, Boer and black savage South Africa an archaeology of the DeWitt Wal…
A Wealth of Thought
Although Franz Boas--one of the most influential anthropologists of the twentieth century--is best known for his voluminous writings on cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology, he is also recognized for breaking new ground in the study of so-called primitive art. His writings on art have major historical value because they embody a profound change in art history. Nineteenth-century scholars assumed that all art lay on a continuum from pri…
Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image
A Critique of the Boasian Paradigm for Northwest Coast Art
Halpin challenges Franz Boas’s representationist reading of Northwest Coast art, and the hegemonic discourse that he initiated. In contrast to the Boasian rule-based paradigm, and with specific reference to Tsimshian-speaking peoples, she argues that Northwest Coast Native art is ambiguous, imaginative, unstable, poetic, endlessly variable, changing, and productive of the new, the unexpected. Of paramount importance in her analysis is the relatio…
Julia D. Harrison, Co-ordinating Curator, The Spirit Sings
Julia D. HARRISON, Co-ordinating Curator, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada ’s First Peoples, The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, January 15 - May 1; Ottawa, under the auspices of the Canadian Museum of Civilization, July 1 - November 6, 1988. Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 8, numéro 1, 1988, p. 3-111) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
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