4. authors, authorship, & power
• author figure key to understanding
power imbalance
• privileged
• ‘subjects’ ignored/erased/treated as
objects
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6. Edward Curtis collection
• 40,000+ photographs of Native peoples
• 10,000+ recordings of Native speech and
music
• Produced the ‘Curtis Indian Picture Opera’
throughout the U.S.
• Directed In the Land of the Headhunters, an
inventive, seminal film documentary (1914)
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8. “The opposite of
a free culture is a
‘permission
culture’—a culture
in which creators
get to create only
with the
permission of the
powerful, or of
creators from the
past.”
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23. blog post 4
• discuss issues of access, authorship,
ownership, privacy etc from the past two
weeks
• choose an image from link
• follow its travels: find info
• discuss its travels, creation, use etc in
relation to class topics from this Unit
• site class materials
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