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June 22, 1999
Ruth B. Phillips Trading Identities: The Souvenir in Native North American Art from the Northeast, 1700–1900 Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. 352 pp.; 38 color ills.; 171 b/w ills. Paper $40.00 (0295976489)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.1999.50

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Ruth Phillips’s study of souvenir art made in the Northeast describes a number of histories of longstanding, transcultural negotiation among the native and nonnative people in this region. Although the dynamic forces at work in the contact zone have been described as reciprocal before—Arjun Appadurai (1996) has aptly described the negotiation of imagined lives as “self-fabricated” and James Clifford (1997) has characterized the roles of native movers and shakers (formerly called informants) as active ones,...