{"product_id":"writing-the-hamatsa-aaron-glass-9780774863780","title":"Writing the Hamat'sa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of the Hamatsa, a ritual dance of the Kwakwaka'wakw people of British Columbia.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Despite settler attempts to eradicate the Hamat'sa, the \"cannibal dance\" remains an important prerogative of the Kwakwaka'wakw people. While generations of anthropologists sought to document the ceremony's past, the Kwakwaka'wakw adapted and preserved its dramatic choreography and magnificent bird masks for the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting the Hamat'sa\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical survey of efforts to record and interpret the ritual over the past four centuries. Drawing on close, contextualized reading of published texts, extensive archival research, and fieldwork, Aaron Glass goes beyond postcolonial critiques that often ignore Indigenous agency to show how the Kwakwaka'wakw have responded to an ethnographic legacy that helped transform specific performances into a broad cultural icon. The result is a fascinating study of how Indigenous peoples both contribute to and repurpose texts to shape modern identities under settler colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aaron Glass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774863781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774863780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.98w x 1.26d","brand":"Aaron Glass","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057188204799,"sku":"9780774863780","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5630c47c-4d28-417f-947d-cd1a8600c7e2.jpg?v=1685045538","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-the-hamatsa-aaron-glass-9780774863780","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}