| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Culture in the Marketplace: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest. By Molly H. Mullin. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 232 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-8223-2610-8. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8223-2618-3.)

The abstractions in the title of this book signal its substance. It details how certain "Anglo" women—as individuals and in interlocking sets, some but not all of them lesbian, most of them "eccentric" in one way or another—used either their inherited material capital or their acquired cultural capital to create a market for Southwestern Indian (and, to a lesser extent, Hispanic) art. The creation of this market also helped to construct other categories such as the "authenticity" (the "Indianness") and indigeneity (the "Americanness") of Indian art and to valorize its quality as "art" (rather than as utilitarian pots or blankets) in ways that contributed to discourses of national and regional identity. Earlier works by Dorothy Dunn, J. J. Brody, and others have treated the production of relevant art. Molly H. Mullin's book joins other recent scholarship, notably Leah Dilworth's distinguished Imagining Indians in the Southwest (1996), in deploying current theoretical perspectives alongside empirical archive work to deepen our knowledge of the complexities of representation and cultural exchange. . . .

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