Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest

by Molly H. Mullins and Molly H. Mullin

Book Overview

In the early twentieth century, a group of elite East coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. In Culture in the Marketplace Molly H. Mullin provides a detailed narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market-as well as the influence these activities had on them-in order to investigate the social construction of value...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822326183
• ISBN13: 9780822326182
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"