Cory Willmott
Biographic Data
| ID | 95649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cory Willmott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cory |
| FAMILY NAME | Willmott |
| SIGNATURE | WILLMOTT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8166-9296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress
Toward Language in Action
Under the direction of Ruth Phillips, GRASAC (Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture) is a worldwide collaborative research consortium composed of indigenous community members, museum professionals, and academic researchers. This article discusses a project that explored the potential of GRASAC's database to support language revitalization. The authors video recorded interviews with two beadworkers in the Anish…
Radical Entrepreneurs
Over the past 15 years, contemporary Native Canadian fashion designers have been gaining increasing visibility and economic viability. Yet, their roles and purposes remain poorly understood. This article identifies a problem with conventional approaches to the question of Community Economic Development and Aboriginal participants in the garment industry in the New Economy. It proposes an alternative model based on the concept of the "radical entr…
Beavers and Sheep
Differences between Great Lakes Algonquians and their colonizers in the meanings and values of dress were not simply a matter of different symbolic meanings for the coded elements. Rather, for Algonquians, the whole realm of the visual played a lesser role in the construction, maintenance and negotiation of identities than it did for the colonizers. Whereas nineteenth-century British and Americans "read" dress to ascertain identities, including m…
The Paradox of Gender among West China Missionary Collectors, 1920-1950
During the turbulent years between the Chinese nationalist revolution of 1911 and the communist victory of 1949, a group of missionaries lived and worked in West China whose social gospel theologies led to unusual identification with Chinese. Among the regular social actors in their lives were itinerant “curio men” who, amidst the chaos of feuding warlords, gathered up the heirlooms of the deposed Manchurian aristocracy and offered these wares fo…
Visual Genders, Visual Histories
From Stroud to Strouds
Museum records indiscriminately use the term 'strouds' for all kinds of woollen trade cloth used in Native American artefacts. The term is frequently encountered in fur trade journals and literature of all kinds. Yet, in histories of the British woollen industry there seems to be little knowledge that this type of cloth was produced in England and specifically designed for Native American markets. This article outlines the importance and roles of…
The Lens of Science
Nineteenth-century anthropologists struggled to establish themselves as scientists in a cultural milieu of enthusiasm for "curiosities." Because commercial photographers appropriated the "authenticity" of photographic realism, the need increased for ethnographic photographers to distinguish between such realism and the "scientific authority" of their own visual productions. Through a case study of anthropometric photography of the Chippewa, this …
Canadian Craft and Museum Practice, 1900-1950
Toward Language in Action
Under the direction of Ruth Phillips, GRASAC (Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture) is a worldwide collaborative research consortium composed of indigenous community members, museum professionals, and academic researchers. This article discusses a project that explored the potential of GRASAC's database to support language revitalization. The authors video recorded interviews with two beadworkers in the Anish…
From Stroud to Strouds
Museum records indiscriminately use the term 'strouds' for all kinds of woollen trade cloth used in Native American artefacts. The term is frequently encountered in fur trade journals and literature of all kinds. Yet, in histories of the British woollen industry there seems to be little knowledge that this type of cloth was produced in England and specifically designed for Native American markets. This article outlines the importance and roles of…
Radical Entrepreneurs
Over the past 15 years, contemporary Native Canadian fashion designers have been gaining increasing visibility and economic viability. Yet, their roles and purposes remain poorly understood. This article identifies a problem with conventional approaches to the question of Community Economic Development and Aboriginal participants in the garment industry in the New Economy. It proposes an alternative model based on the concept of the "radical entr…
The Lens of Science
Nineteenth-century anthropologists struggled to establish themselves as scientists in a cultural milieu of enthusiasm for "curiosities." Because commercial photographers appropriated the "authenticity" of photographic realism, the need increased for ethnographic photographers to distinguish between such realism and the "scientific authority" of their own visual productions. Through a case study of anthropometric photography of the Chippewa, this …
Beavers and Sheep
Differences between Great Lakes Algonquians and their colonizers in the meanings and values of dress were not simply a matter of different symbolic meanings for the coded elements. Rather, for Algonquians, the whole realm of the visual played a lesser role in the construction, maintenance and negotiation of identities than it did for the colonizers. Whereas nineteenth-century British and Americans "read" dress to ascertain identities, including m…
Canadian Craft and Museum Practice, 1900-1950
From Stroud to Strouds
Museum records indiscriminately use the term 'strouds' for all kinds of woollen trade cloth used in Native American artefacts. The term is frequently encountered in fur trade journals and literature of all kinds. Yet, in histories of the British woollen industry there seems to be little knowledge that this type of cloth was produced in England and specifically designed for Native American markets. This article outlines the importance and roles of…
The Lens of Science
Nineteenth-century anthropologists struggled to establish themselves as scientists in a cultural milieu of enthusiasm for "curiosities." Because commercial photographers appropriated the "authenticity" of photographic realism, the need increased for ethnographic photographers to distinguish between such realism and the "scientific authority" of their own visual productions. Through a case study of anthropometric photography of the Chippewa, this …
Visual Genders, Visual Histories
The Paradox of Gender among West China Missionary Collectors, 1920-1950
During the turbulent years between the Chinese nationalist revolution of 1911 and the communist victory of 1949, a group of missionaries lived and worked in West China whose social gospel theologies led to unusual identification with Chinese. Among the regular social actors in their lives were itinerant “curio men” who, amidst the chaos of feuding warlords, gathered up the heirlooms of the deposed Manchurian aristocracy and offered these wares fo…
Radical Entrepreneurs
Over the past 15 years, contemporary Native Canadian fashion designers have been gaining increasing visibility and economic viability. Yet, their roles and purposes remain poorly understood. This article identifies a problem with conventional approaches to the question of Community Economic Development and Aboriginal participants in the garment industry in the New Economy. It proposes an alternative model based on the concept of the "radical entr…
Beavers and Sheep
Differences between Great Lakes Algonquians and their colonizers in the meanings and values of dress were not simply a matter of different symbolic meanings for the coded elements. Rather, for Algonquians, the whole realm of the visual played a lesser role in the construction, maintenance and negotiation of identities than it did for the colonizers. Whereas nineteenth-century British and Americans "read" dress to ascertain identities, including m…
Toward Language in Action
Under the direction of Ruth Phillips, GRASAC (Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Culture) is a worldwide collaborative research consortium composed of indigenous community members, museum professionals, and academic researchers. This article discusses a project that explored the potential of GRASAC's database to support language revitalization. The authors video recorded interviews with two beadworkers in the Anish…
Decolonizing the Museum to Reclaim and Revitalize the Anishinaabe Strap Dress
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works)