Complete Guide to Traditional Native American Beadwork: A Definitive Study of Authentic Tools,Materials,Techniques,and Styles Book

I'm not really very interested in performance art as such, which this book spends a good deal of time discussing--I am interested in identity performance, but I don't think I got much more on that subject from this book than I already had from Judith Butler and Homi Bhabha. I accept that the task is nearly impossible, but I'm not sure how well this critical introduction actually covered performance as such. I think it did a better job providing an intro than I got out of it.

One of the things I found particularly problematic about Carlson's style is that ideas flow into one another, so he will introduce a certain thought and midway through the paragraph that is developing that thought he'll begin working to a new thought. I suppose this reflects the fluidity and movement of much performance, but I found it difficult to follow the movement of some of Carlson's logic because it seems like he rarely wraps up a thought in what I would call a comprehensive manner.