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Book SynopsisAuthors, Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley collaborate with members of the Osage Nation to discuss how gift exchange, motivated by the values of generosity and hospitality, serves as a critical component in the preservation and perpetuation of Osage society.
Trade ReviewReaders whom the title might lead to expect a visually attractive presentation of a traditional form of Osage textile art will not be disappointed. But they will encounter much more: an extremely effective account, based on insiders' perceptions for the most part, of central and recurrent expressions of ethos, which anyone interested in Osage people must read.
-- Williams M. Clements - Arkansas State University * Journal of Folklore Research *
Daniel C. Swan and Jim Cooley richly craft together history, practice, and the nuances of kinship making by using the materiality of wedding clothes as the entry point. Wedding Clothes and the Osage Community speaks to multiple audiences from those interested in material culture (beyond wedding clothes to understand gifts of blankets, broadcloth, food, and animals), religion, and complex social relations within Indigenous communities living under the pressures of American colonialism.
-- Fiona P. McDonald - University of British Columbia, Okanagan * Museum Anthropology Review *
Table of ContentsForeword / Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, Osage Nation
Acknowledgements
A Note on Orthography
Introduction
1. Mízhin Wedding Ceremonies
2. The Material Culture of Osage Weddings
3. The Osage Ilonshka
4. The Modern Ilonshka and Transfer of the Drum
5. Enduring Values in Osage Society
Appendix: Gift Exchange and the Reproduction of Osage Society
Glossary
References Cited
Index
