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Visual essay

Outside things inside: relative status on the Northwest coast

Pages 13-24 | Received 23 Oct 2011, Accepted 14 Dec 2011, Published online: 25 Jul 2012
 

Abstract

Indigenous people in Canada often bring attention to the continuities between their pasts and their presents. Such continuity is evident in the perpetual play of status concerns and their adaptation to relations between Native and non-Native. Status display remains active for new reasons and takes new forms in contemporary art. It is suggested that the relative status of the First Nations peoples in British Columbia, outsiders within the state which formed around them and defined them, plays out in paradoxical ways that deserve more attention. Pragmatically observable social facts are transformed into affective fields through culturally specific materials and ‘things’. In the attempt to evade race-based representations attention to culturally specific materials offers a way to pick up on continuities in the affective relationship between artist and audience.

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