Beau Dick: Devoured by Consumerism

by John Cussans, LaTiesha Fazakas, Candice Hopkins

"Devoured by Consumerism" is Beau Dick's aesthetic response to Western capitalist values and an overt critique of the unchecked commercialism of capitalist society. The intention with this hardcover publication is to contrast the Kwakwaka'wakw's economic and legal system of potlatching, which also functions as a way of maintaining and preserving oral history, against Western society's system of capitalism. The book references the Hamatsa (cannibal)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1773270869
• ISBN13: 9781773270869
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 9.2"