Crafting "the Indian" : knowledge, desire and play in Indianist reenactment /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalshoven, Petra Tjitske
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > History.
Indians of North America > Public opinion.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.
Indians in popular culture.
Historical reenactments.
Indianists.
Online Access:http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=44397
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the stage : Indianism and what it is not
  • Indian hobbies, European contexts : history, historiography, ethnography
  • "Is this play?" : reframing metaphoric action on Indianist playgrounds. Buffalo Days Camp 2003 : journal
  • Amateurs at work : modes of knowledge making and remaking
  • Shifting selves around authentic replicas : crafting the past into the present
  • Matter, metaphor, miniature : marvels of the model
  • Appendix. Missouri River story : a tale of playing for high stakes.

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