ASE Address 2011: An Ethnohistory of Things: Or, How to Treat California's Canastromania.
Canastromania was a word coined by Smithsonian curator Otis Tufton Mason to capture the early twentieth-century fascination with American Indian basketry. Presented as the American Society for Ethnohistory presidential address at the epicenter of this collecting craze—Pasadena, California—this essay...
| Publicado en: | Ethnohistory Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 441 - 464 |
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Duke University Press
Summer2012
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