Art, Object, Religion, & Relationality / Religion, Art, Objects (of Study)

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Notes

1 Morgan, “Thing,” 142.

2 Wallach, Exhibiting Contradictions, 6.

3 See Wallach, Exhibiting Contradictions, especially 1-21 and 38-56.

4 Haskins, “Kant and the Autonomy of Art,” 43.

5 Berlo and Phillips, Native North American Art, 11.

6 Maurer, “Presenting the American Indian,” 19-20; Hill, “The Indian in the Cabinet of Curiosity,” 103-8.

7 See Lonetree, Decolonizing Museums for important efforts on the part of Native nations to respond to earlier practices.

8 Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, “Objects of Ethnography,” 387.

9 For a discussion of the complexities and contradictions in exhibiting “other” cultures in European and Euro-American museums, see Karp, “Other Cultures in Museum Perspective.”.

10 See Burris, Exhibiting Religion for European and American examples.

11 On aesthetic subjectivity regarding objects and art made by Indigenous artists, see Price, Primitive Art in Civilized Places, 7-22.

12 For an analysis and critique of the idea that religion is sui generis, see McCutcheon, Manufacturing Religion.

13 Sources I drew on to outline these parallels included Berlo and Phillips, Native North American Art; Price, Primitive Art in Civilized Places; and my own published and forthcoming work on the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of American Ethnology.

14 One recent example is Tone-Pah-Hote, Crafting an Indigenous Nation.