03386nam 2200697 a 450 991077919240332120220425192043.01-280-49666-597866135918900-85745-345-910.1515/9780857453457(CKB)2550000000099654(EBL)915504(OCoLC)793996552(SSID)ssj0000655121(PQKBManifestationID)12247029(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000655121(PQKBWorkID)10593651(PQKB)11058918(MiAaPQ)EBC915504(Au-PeEL)EBL915504(CaPaEBR)ebr10559463(CaONFJC)MIL359189(DE-B1597)636463(DE-B1597)9780857453457(EXLCZ)99255000000009965420110919d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCrafting "the Indian"[electronic resource] knowledge, desire, and play in Indianist reenactment /Petra Tjitske KalshovenNew York Berghahn Books20121 online resource (299 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-344-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIn 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 hobbyists in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic, this ethnography analyzes this contemporary practice oIndians of North AmericaHistoryIndians of North AmericaPublic opinionIndians of North AmericaSocial life and customsIndians in popular cultureHistorical reenactmentsIndianistsIndians of North AmericaHistory.Indians of North AmericaPublic opinion.Indians of North AmericaSocial life and customs.Indians in popular culture.Historical reenactments.Indianists.970.004/97Kalshoven Petra Tjitske1540869MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779192403321Crafting "the Indian"3792751UNINA