1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797984703321

Autore

Mandelartz Pascal

Titolo

Thanatourism : case studies in travel to the dark side / / Pascal Mandelartz and Tony Johnston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-910158-35-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

338.4791

Soggetti

Dark tourism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Thanatourism is an important new overview of the growing field. It introduces more rigorous scholarship, new philosophical perspectives and a wealth of empirical material on the contemporary and historical consumption of death with case studies designed to stretch and challenge current discourse.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798729503321

Autore

Marak Andrae M (Andrae Micheal)

Titolo

At the border of empires : the Tohono O'odham, gender, and assimilation, 1880--1934 / / Andrae M. Marak and Laura Tuennerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, ©2013

ISBN

0816535957

9780816535958

0816521158

9780816521159

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

TuennermanLaura <1966->

Disciplina

979.1004/974552

Soggetti

Tohono O'odham Indians - History

Tohono O'odham Indians - Cultural assimilation

Tohono O'odham women - Social conditions

Tohono O'odham Indians - Social life and customs

Papago (Indiens) - Histoire

Papago (Indiens) - Acculturation

Papago (Indiens) - Mœurs et coutumes

HISTORY - United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)

Tohono O'odham Indians

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The story of the Tohono O'odham peoples offers an important account of assimilation. Bifurcated by a border demarcating Mexico and the United States that was imposed on them after the Gadsden Purchase in 1853, the Tohono O'odham lived at the edge of two empires.<br /><br />Although they were often invisible to the majority cultures of the region, they attracted the attention of reformers and government officials in the United States, who were determined to "assimilate" native peoples into "American society." By focusing on gender norms and ideals in the assimilation of the Tohono O'odham, At the Border of



Empires provides a lens for looking at both Native American history and broader societal ideas about femininity, masculinity, and empire around the turn of the twentieth century. <br /><br /> Beginning in the 1880s, the US government implemented programs to eliminate "vice" among the Tohono O'odham and to encourage the morals of the majority culture as the basis of a process of "Americanization." During the next fifty years, tribal norms interacted with--sometimes conflicting with and sometimes reinforcing--those of the larger society in ways that significantly shaped both government policy and tribal experience. This book examines the mediation between cultures, the officials who sometimes developed policies based on personal beliefs and gender biases, and the native people whose lives were impacted as a result. These issues are brought into useful relief by comparing the experiences of the Tohono O'odham on two sides of a border that was, from a native perspective, totally arbitrary. <br />