ANTH 360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Haida Gwaii, Swan Maiden, Emily Carr
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Haida experienced three times as many deaths as were in europe during the black. Death, it is after this and when they think they"ll go extinct that bringhurst is there. So much of the interactive element of performance is also language (link to other worlds through theirs) Culture is the bubble of reality, their universe, which people exist in, oral literature is a way to access that. Swanton, wasn"t going through a translator which boas objected to as it wasn"t preserving what he thought was disappearing for others. Swanton wanted ethnographic perfection encompassing all the unique perspectives of each oral teller. Bringhurst was prepared for the devastation, was not prepared for the literature that he had to take down. Emily carr was an artist who lived in canada and came to haida to paint and such a bit before swanton, wrote a book that became popular about the haida, no recognition for paintings later in life.
