Dr Max Carocci discusses Warriors of the Plains
Dr Max Carocci, World Arts and Artefacts Programme Director and lecturer in Arts of the Americas, tells Birkbeck Magazine about his British Museum exhibition on the lives, objects and symbols of the Native American Indians.
Dr Max Carocci, World Arts and Artefacts Programme Director and lecturer in Arts of the Americas, tells Birkbeck Magazine about his British Museum exhibition on the lives, objects and symbols of the Native American Indians.
Max Carocci, who has studied Native American culture for over thirty years has curated an exhibition for the British Museum called Warriors of the Plains which explores the ongoing legacy of the warrior figure among contemporary Native North Americans.
The exhibition narrates the evolution of past ritual and military objects and regalia from ceremonial accoutrements and objects of social status to symbols of ethnicity and national pride for the people of today.
Dr Carocci explained his approach in the interview: “I did not just want to offer a snapshot in time, and for precisely this reason we included contemporary objects in the exhibition, so people could see that Native American cultures are still very much alive and part of contemporary life.”
Max Carocci has recently had his essay 'Native Americans and the European Gay Imagination' published by Palgrave in a collection of essays called Tribal Fantasies.
Related links
- Birkbeck Magazine feature: Warriors of the Plain
- British Museum exhibition pages
- Certificate of Higher Education in World Arts and Artefacts