Paradox Regained: The Trickster in Native North American Art and Culture

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dc.contributor.advisorRushing, W. Jackson
dc.contributor.authorHanawalt, Tammi
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBailey, Robert
dc.contributor.committeeMemberFields, Alison
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHaltman, Kenneth
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKlein, Misha
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPrice, Byron
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWrobel, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-12T15:45:42Z
dc.date.available2017-05-12T15:45:42Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.manuscript2017
dc.description.abstractRaven, Nanobozho, Wakdjunkaga, Ishtinke, and Coyote were a part of Native North American cultures long before anthropologists began to record their stories in the nineteenth century. Perplexed and captivated by these beings of diverse mythic origin, which they clustered together and identified as “tricksters,” anthropologists set out to impose meaning, variously drawing on ethnographic, structuralist, and psychoanalytic approaches. With the rise of identity politics in the last half of the twentieth century, indigenous artists, authors, and playwrights seized tricksters’ essence as a means of connecting to their cultural history without being locked into colonialist stereotypes about Native Americans. In this dissertation I examine the complexity and illusiveness of tricksters as a visual presence, approaching “trickster discourse” on a level that intertwines the disciplines of American art history, Native American studies, and cultural anthropology. Crossing previously unexplored territory between these disciplinary boundaries, I problematize current discourse that has adopted the term “trickster” as an identifier in Native American art theories, and, with consideration for North American tricksters in their historic and cultural contexts, I offer alternative interpretations that center on a more paradoxical reading of their contemporary functions in art.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/50828
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.subjectNative Americanen_US
dc.subjectArten_US
dc.subjectTricksteren_US
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.titleParadox Regained: The Trickster in Native North American Art and Cultureen_US
ou.groupWeitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts::School of Art and Art Historyen_US
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