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Autore |
Denzin Norman K. |
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Titolo |
Indians on display : global commodification of native America in performance, art, and museums / / Norman K. Denzin |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-42680-3 |
1-315-42681-1 |
1-61132-090-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indians of North America - Public opinion |
Indians in popular culture |
Indians in art |
Museum exhibits - United States |
Indians of North America |
Folklore - Performance - United States |
Public opinion - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2013 by Left Coast Press, Inc. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; Introduction; Chapter One - Selling Indians: Traveling Wild West Shows, Painters, Minstrels, and Museums; Chapter Two - Charles Bird King's Studio Indians; Chapter Three - The Traveling Indian Medicine Show; Chapter Four - George Catlin's Traveling Indian Gallery; Chapter Five - Catlin's Traveling Indian Gallery Goes to London; Chapter Six - Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill; Chapter Seven - Ghost Dancers in Germany; Chapter Eight - German Indians R Us; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported |
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it around the world. Exhibitions by George Catlin, paintings by Charles King, and Wild West shows by Buffalo Bill Cody were viewed by millions worldwide. Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how this version of Indians |
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