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Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Table of Contents

Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema

Contents:
U'mista Cultural Society: Statement of Participation, William T. Cranmer
Foreword. Bill Holm
Preface. Brad Evans and Aaron Glass

Introduction. Edward Curtis Meets the Kwakwaka'wakw: Cultural Encounter and Indigenous Agency In the Land of The Head Hunters, Aaron Glass and Brad Evans

Part One: Mediating Indians/Complicating Curtis

1. Edward S. Curtis and In the Land of the Head Hunters: Four Contexts, Mick Gidley

2. Images of Time: Portraiture in The North American Indian, Shamoon Zamir

3. Indian Landscapes: Pauline Johnson and Edward Curtis, Kate Flint

4. A Chamber of Echoing Songs: Edward Curtis as a Musical Ethnographer, Ira Jacknis

Photo Essay 1: "At the Kitchen Table with Edward S. Curtis," Jeff Thomas

Part Two: Head Hunters across Two Centuries

5. Consuming the Head Hunters: A Century of Film Reception, Aaron Glass and Brad Evans

6. Unmasking the Documentary: Notes on the Anxiety of Edward Curtis, Colin Browne

7. Indian Movies and the Vernacular of Modernism, Brad Evans

8. Musical Intertextuality in Indigenous Film: Making and Remaking In the Land of the Head Hunters, Klisala Harrison

9. Reflections on Working with Edward Curtis, Barbara Cranmer (T'lakwagilogwa)

Photo Essay 2: "Old Images/New Views: Indigenous Perspectives on Edward Curtis"

Part Three: Reimagining Curtis Today

10. In the Land of the Head Hunters: Reconstruction, not Restoration, Jere Guldin

11. In the Land of the Head Hunters and the History of Silent Film Music, David Gilbert

12. Performing Braham, Interpreting Curtis: A Conversation on Conducting, Neal Stulberg, Owen Underhill, Timothy Long, and Laura Ortman

13. "What the Creator Gave to Us": An Interview with William Wasden Jr. (Waxawidi)

14. Cultural Interpretation, Dave Hunsaker

15. The Kwakwaka'wakw Business of Showing: Tradition Meets Modernity on the Silver Screen and the World's Stage, Aaron Glass

Afterword: Twentieth Century Fox, Paul Chaat Smith

Appendix 1: Promotional Images for In the Land of the Head Hunters
Appendix 2: The Kwakwaka'wakw Cast and Crew of In the Land of the Head Hunters
Appendix 3: Curtis Film Props in the Collection of the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Appendix 4: Title Cards from the 2008 Reconstruction of In the Land of the Head Hunters

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U’mista Cultural Centre 
The Getty Research Institute
UCLA Film & Television Archive
The Field Museum
Milestone film & video
University of Washington Press
Autry National Center 
The Moore Theatre (Seattle Theatre Group)
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Seattle International Film Festival
The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia - First Nations and Indigenous Studies
UBC Centenary 2008
National Gallery of Art
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
American Museum of Natural History
New York University
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