University of Washington Press, Date: 1999-10-01. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 93x6x132. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, in a mylar cover. 4to. 201pp. 1999. University of Washington Press ISBN 0295978147 9780295978147 [US]

University of Washington Press, Date: 1999. Hardcover. As New. 8vo, hardcover, black cloth. As new condition, including dj. Covers and contents crisp, clean, unworn, binding square and tight,- appears never read. 199 pp., illus. 1999. University of Washington Press ISBN 0295978147 9780295978147 [US]

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, Date: 1999. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 201. 4to. Colour plates, black and white photographs. 1999. University of Washington Press ISBN 0295978147 9780295978147 [CA]

Seattle, WA, and Vancouver, BC: University of Washington Press; UBC Press, Date: 1999. Cloth, xiii, 201 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "What makes Northwest Coast Native American art authentic? And why, when most of art history is a history of the avant-garde, is tradition so deeply valued by contemporary Native American artists and their patrons? In Privileging the Past, Judith Ostrowitz approaches these questions through a careful consideration of replicas, reproductions, and creative translations of past forms of Northwest Coast dances, ceremonies, masks, painted screens, and houses. Ostrowitz examines several different art forms - two very different architectural constructions, a dance performance, and modern sculptures and dance paraphernalia-considering their relations to arts of the past. Chief Shakes' Community House has endured, in various forms, at the same site in Wrangell, Alaska, for close to 170 years as an 'old style' Tlingit tribal house. The Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization at Hull, Quebec, is constructed as a Native village with an assemblage of replicated houses made by contemporary Native artists, both old and new totem poles, and references to the Northwest Coast landscape. The opening ceremonies of the exhibition Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch at the American Museum of Natural History in New York in October 1991 ...

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. ISBN 0295978147 9780295978147 [US]

Seattle: University of Washington Press/Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999. hbk small 4to xiii 201pp illustr in color and b/w no dj otherwise excellent as new Seattle: University of Washington Press/Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999 ISBN 0295978147 9780295978147 [US]

Seattle University of Washington Press 1999 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 264 p. Contains: Illustrations.

University of Washington Press, Date: 1999-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1999. University of Washington Press ISBN 0295978147 9780295978147 [US]