Not Just a Pretty Face Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures 1st Edition by Molly Lee ISBN 978-1889963853 1889963853

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ISBN 10:  1889963853

ISBN 13: 978-1889963853

Author: Molly Lee

Now in a full-color second edition, Not Just a Pretty Face is an engaging exploration of the role of dolls and doll making in Alaska Native cultures. From ancient ivory carvings to the thriving tourist market, dolls and human figurines have played integral parts in the ritual, economic, and social lives of Native Alaskans. Dolls served as children’s playthings, represented absent community members at ceremonies, and predicted the movements of game animals for shamans. Not Just a Pretty Face surveys these and other uses of dolls and figurines, illustrating in beautiful color photographs the diversity of the doll-making tradition in Eskimo, Athabaskan, and Northwest Coast Native communities.
Authors explore the ethnographic literature, twentieth-century oral histories, and photographic documentation of dolls and the doll-making process. Contemporary doll makers explain, in their own words, how they learned to make dolls and what doll making means to them. The second edition features a photo essay on Rosalie Paniyak of Chevak, one of the most influential doll makers in Alaska today.
Not Just a Pretty Face provides a panoramic view of an ancient tradition and situates the art of doll making within a contemporary context. Scholarly, yet accessible, Not Just a Pretty Face is a lively contribution to the literature on dolls, anthropology, and Native studies.

Table of contents: 

1 Intimates and Effigies

Dolls and Human Figurines in Alaska Native Cultures

Angela J. Linn and Molly Lee

2 Playing for Real

Scholarly Perspectives on Alaska Native Play and Ritual

Angela J. Linn

3 Everything Old Is New Again

Interviewing Alaska Native Doll Makers

Chase Hensel

4 Rosalie Paniyak

A Portrait

Angela J. Linn and James H. Barker

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