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Root, Deborah. Fat-Eaters and Aesthetes: The Politics of Display
1996, in Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference. USA: Westview Press.
Topics: Culture; Ethics and Socio-Politics of Aesthetics; Individual Arts and Crafts
Keywords: art; colonialism; consumption; culture; power
Traditions: Comparative/Intercultural; Critical; Cultural; North American
Languages: English

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Added by: Erich Hatala Matthes

Summary: Root employs Méxica mythology as a lens for revealing the consumptive, and even cannibalistic, character of power. In particular, she points to the way colonial power sets up Westerners as "experts" and arbiters of art and culture, presenting appreciation of culture as a pretext for violence and control.
Comment : This chapter serves as an introduction to Root's booklength study of these themes, so the presentation only gestures at these relationships and provides a brief selection of examples that illustrate them. However, if can be useful for raising initial questions about the relationships among power, art, and culture. It provides a counterpoint to a more sanguine perspective on cross-cultural appreciation expressed by Thomas Heyd in "Rock Art Aesthetics and Cultural Appropriation."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Recommended use: Further

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