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Showcases the vibrant practices of Tlingit women’s beadwork

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Megan A. Smetzer is lecturer of art history at Capilano University.

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"A superb and compelling study." (American Indian Culture & Research Journal) "Smetzer brings consistent and thoroughly researched attention to the role of women's work, expanding our understanding of Tlingit and Northern Northwest Coast aesthetics . . . This book will be useful and enlightening to many." (American Historical Review) "Past, present, and future are carefully woven together in Megan Smetzer's Painful Beauty, a thoughtful and accessible analysis of Tlingit women's adaptations of beadwork into new forms of cultural production . . . [The book] sheds new light on previously undervalued forms of cultural practice, making a significant contribution to existing scholarship." (Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art) "A comprehensive resource on Tlingit history in the Northwest." (Real Change) "Smetzer meticulously documents how bead workers living in painful colonialized situations supported their communities. Smetzer aims to prioritize the idea that multivocal art...effectively challenges the continuing effect of historical trauma through creating beauty that restores balance." (Choice) "A necessary read for scholars of Native American art, Painful Beauty also includes broader lessons about the limitations of the archive and the work of history. Within Painful Beauty, filling a lacuna caused by the systemic erasure of Tlingit women's beadwork reads as an act of repair." (H-Net Reviews)

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