Ruth Philips and Christopher Steiner, eds.
Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
1998.
424 pp.
Paper
(0520207971)
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February 11, 2000
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Jonathan Batkin’s article on the early dealers in pueblo pottery, one of the most eye-opening in this valuable volume, also has one of the best stories: in a curio store in Santa Fe in the late nineteenth century, among the pottery rain gods (shipped in barrels of 100 at $6.50 the barrel), the beadwork and tambourines, the Jicarilla Apache baskets and Navajo silver, the owner claimed to be able to show you Ben Hur’s trunk...