Word: tribals
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...They reach into realms that have to do with magic and the objects that presume to have it, with power and the gaudy ways it announces itself, with the degradation of native art into gift-shop kitsch and the elevation of celebrity sports gear into sacred bling. By conflating tribal fetish and consumer trophy, Jungen has managed to tie any number of cultural assumptions and anxieties into a wickedly clever knot...
...Jordans also offered themselves as the perfect base material for mock tribal masks because their blacks, whites and reds, borrowed from the uniform of the NBA's Chicago Bulls, are also the colors that recur in carvings of coastal native peoples, especially the Haida. In the flash of an eye, tribal palette becomes team colors and vice versa. Native tribes and sports tribes flicker back and forth in the same slightly comic, slightly menacing face...
...does the great Air Jordan himself. His representatives contacted Jungen to acquire one last year after reading an article in Sports Illustrated about the New York City show. Once the Prototypes started selling briskly, Jungen may have been tempted to start churning them out like, well, like tribal art for the tourist trade. Instead, and wisely, he brought the product line to a different conclusion. He made just 23. That's the number Jordan made famous...
...Some U.S. counter-terrorism officials reportedly believed they had Zawahiri in their sights two weeks ago as he supposedly attended a dinner in a village in Pakistan's tribal region of Bajaur north of Peshawar. Zawahiri's tape provides no useful clues as to whether he had actually been in the vicinity that day or not. But the attack showed how badly the U.S. wants to bring down the taunting terrorist...
Angry, competitive, saddened, self-righteous and more than a little jealous that this guy was stealing some of my autobiographical thunder, I approached Nasdijj's publishers and told them his book not only was borderline plagiarism but also failed to mention specific tribal members, clans, ceremonies and locations, all of which are vital to the concept of Indian identity. They took me seriously, but they didn't believe...