Basketry made by Cherokee artists in North Carolina has changed significantly over the last two hundred years. With the shifting availability of important plants and a growing tourist market, this practice reflects the tribe’s changing social and ecological environment while providing a way for this community to adapt to new realities. Highlighting baskets on display in the Mathers Museum exhibit, Cherokee Craft, 1973, this talk by Emily Buhrow Rogers, a Ph.D. student in the departments of Anthropology and Folklore at IU, and co-curator of the exhibit, addresses these items’ diversity and explores how they mediated new meanings. The lecture, sponsored by Fall 2015 Themester @Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet, is free and open to the public.
Cost: Free
For more information contact:
Judith Kirk
(812) 855-6873
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