CANS 310- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 43 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANS 310
• Professor: Shelly Butler

Document Summary

Toda(cid:455)"s reading the inconvenient indian chapter 4, 5. Canadians see indians in terms of lack. Primitivist nostalgic view of native americans (as the noble savage) Artists tell us about the state of mind in europe desire to criticize urbanization in artist"s own so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) Sometimes take a step back to look at how artists/writers appropriate things to say what they want to say. Stamps like the war of 1812 bicentennial ones appropriate symbols to symbolize the nation, commoditizes indians. Things like stamps and coins literally circulate. The stereotype has multiple meanings for multiple people. Not a unanimous sense of what this person/character is. King tries to create nuanced view of canada in which it is like the us in some ways, and not in others. Summer camps and appropriation of native american culture (seton and boy scouts) Inukt products in museum of contemporary art in montreal. Appropriation because products used indian imagery but were not made by them.