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Autore |
Kalshoven Petra Tjitske |
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Titolo |
Crafting "the Indian" [[electronic resource] ] : knowledge, desire, and play in Indianist reenactment / / Petra Tjitske Kalshoven |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-49666-5 |
9786613591890 |
0-85745-345-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (299 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Setting the Stage: Indianism and What It Is Not; Chapter 2 - Indian Hobbies, European Contexts: History, Historiography, Ethnography; Chapter 3 - ""Is This Play?"": Reforming Metaphoric Action on Indianist Playgrounds; Chapter 4 - Amateurs at Work: Modes of Knowledge Making and Remaking; Chapter 5 - Shifting Selves around Authentic Replicas: Crafting the Past into the Present; Chapter 6 - Matter, Metaphor, Miniature: Marvels of the Model; Appendix - Missouri River Story: A Tale of Playing for HIgh Stakes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Indian hobbyists" dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with teepees and re-enact aspects of the North American Indian lifestyle, using ethnographies, travel diaries, and museum collections as resources. Grounded in fieldwork set among networks of Indian |
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hobbyists in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic, this ethnography analyzes this contemporary practice o |
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