Excavating Voices: Listening to Photographs of Native Americans

by Michael Katakis

Overview

Three authors from diverse backgrounds contribute essays to this volume of photographs of Native Americans from the archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Noted photographer and author Michael Katakis, Professor of Native American literature and American Book Award winner Gerald Vizenor, and Associate Curator of the American collection of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Robert Preucel have contributed very personal and sensitive essays inspired by the portraits in this volume. Listen closely as you look at these arresting images.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780924171574
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Museum
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Pages:	86
Product dimensions:	8.46(w) x 10.94(h) x 0.26(d)

Editorial Reviews

Introductory essays by Katakis (photographer and writer), Vizenor (Native American literature, U. of California) and Preucel (curator and professor of anthropology, U. of Pennsylvania) discuss how the attitude of the photographer affects the image produced, whether a photograph is worth a thousand words, and the multitude of voices represented by the 48 full-page b&w photographs. The loudest "voices" speak of Manifest Destiny, progress, and industrial capitalism, which have both defined and controlled the ongoing conversation between native peoples and whites. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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