Zena Pearlstone

Biographic Data

ID3622069
NAMEZena Pearlstone
GIVEN NAMESZena
FAMILY NAMEPearlstone
SIGNATUREPEARLSTONE Z
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • Brian Honyouti: Send in the Clowns

    Open AccessZena PearlstoneARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2012

    Hopi Brian Honyouti's "clown" sculptures stem from his personal and political views and comment on commercialism, big business, greed, over indulgence, and irresponsible and sexual behavior. This essay explores the meaning of these carvings to Honyouti, to Hopiit, and to the buying public, as well as their relationship to tithu the carved representations of Katsinam. Working in the contact zone and in the realm of transculturation, Honyouti's car…

  • Hopi Doll Look-Alikes: An Extended Definition of Inauthenticity

    Zena Pearlstone, Zena Pearlstone Zena PearlstoneARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly2011Cited by: 1References: 9

    Hopi Doll Look-Alikes:An Extended Definition of Inauthenticity Zena Pearlstone (bio) This essay is a short history of imitation tithu, dolls representing katsinam, the Hopi supernaturals. It is a study of "authenticity" in the marketplace and its perceived relation to "magic," "spirituality," and "antiquity," as the article follows early changes at Hopi through the contemporary fabrications perpetuated through eBay. As it takes up issues of the c…

  • Dressing in Feathers: 95 The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture

    Open AccessZena PearlstoneARTICLEMuseum Anthropology1997Cited by: 12References: 1

    Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture. Edited by S. ELIZABETH BIRD. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1996. xii +321 pp. 56 b/w photographs, bibliography, index. $73.00 (cloth); $19.50 (paper). Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883‐1933. L.G. MOSES. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. xvii. 364 pp. 70 b/w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 (cloth

  • Art as Technology: The Arts of Africa, Oceania, Native America and Southern California

    Diana Fane, Arnold Rubin et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1991Cited by: 1

  • The False Faces of the Iroquois

    Zena Pearlstone, William N FentonARTICLEAfrican Arts1988

  • Captured Heritage: The Scramble for Northwest Coast Artifacts

    Zena Pearlstone, Douglas Cole et al.ARTICLEAfrican Arts1986Cited by: 5

  • Sujang: A Stirrup Spout Vessel from Nigeria

    Open AccessZena PearlstoneARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1973

    Several years ago it was generally thought that the stirrup spout form was unique to the New World and that diffusion could account for all of its occurrences. When 2 African stirrup spouts from the Congo were documented, the question of independent invention was raised, even though the Congo vessels were similar to American types. Recently, various stirrup spout vessels have been found in Nigeria. A Mwona stirrup spout, like those of their neigh…

  • Availability versus accessibility of information in memory for words

    Open AccessEndel Tulving, Zena PearlstoneARTICLEJournal of Verbal Learning and…1966