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"[A] comprehensive resource on Tlingit history in the Northwest."

* Real Change *

"Smetzer meticulously documents how bead workers living in painful colonialized situations supported their communities. Smetzer aims to prioritize the idea that multivocal art...effectively challenges the continuing effect of historical trauma through creating beauty that restores balance."

* Choice *

"[A] superb and compelling study."

* American Indian Culture & Research Journal *

"Past, present, and future are carefully woven together in Megan Smetzer’s Painful Beauty, a thoughtful and accessible analysis of Tlingit women’s adaptations of beadwork into new forms of cultural production…[The book] sheds new light on previously undervalued forms of cultural practice, making a significant contribution to existing scholarship."

* Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art *

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 27/07/2021
      ISBN13: 9780295748948, 978-0295748948
      ISBN10: 029574894X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      "[A] comprehensive resource on Tlingit history in the Northwest."

      * Real Change *

      "Smetzer meticulously documents how bead workers living in painful colonialized situations supported their communities. Smetzer aims to prioritize the idea that multivocal art...effectively challenges the continuing effect of historical trauma through creating beauty that restores balance."

      * Choice *

      "[A] superb and compelling study."

      * American Indian Culture & Research Journal *

      "Past, present, and future are carefully woven together in Megan Smetzer’s Painful Beauty, a thoughtful and accessible analysis of Tlingit women’s adaptations of beadwork into new forms of cultural production…[The book] sheds new light on previously undervalued forms of cultural practice, making a significant contribution to existing scholarship."

      * Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art *

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