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Selling the Indian : commercializing & appropriating American Indian cultures / edited by Carter Jones Meyer, Diana Royer

Catalog Data

Author:
Meyer, Carter Jones 1957-  Search this
Royer, Diana 1959-  Search this
Physical description:
xix, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
United States
Date:
2001
©2001
Notes:
ANTH copy 39088010458438 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Purchased from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature.
AAPG copy 39088014382907 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Bequest from the library of William C. Sturtevant.
NMAI copy 39088019861954 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema.
Contents:
The "shy" Cocopa go to the fair / Nancy J. Parezo and John W. Troutman -- Command performances : staging Native Americans at Tillicum Village / Katie N. Johnson and Tamara Underiner -- Savage desires : the gendered construction of the American Indian in popular media / S. Elizabeth Bird -- "Beyond feathers and beads" : interlocking narratives in the music and dance of Tokeya Inajin (Kevin Locke) / Pauline Tuttle -- "The idea of help" : White women reformers and the commercialization of Native American women's arts / Erik Trump -- Saving the Pueblos : commercialism and Indian reform in the 1920s / Carter Jones Meyer -- Marketing traditions : Cherokee basketry and tourist economies / Sarah H. Hill -- Crafts, tourism, and traditional life in Chiapas, Mexico : a tale related by a pillowcase / Chris Goertzen
Summary:
A collection of essays consider the selling of American Indian culture and how it affects the Native community, showing how appropriation of American Indian cultures have been persistent practices of American society over the last century, constituting a form of cultural imperialism that could contribute to the destruction of American Indian culture and identity.
Topic:
Public opinion  Search this
Indians in popular culture  Search this
Indians in literature  Search this
Stereotypes (Social psychology)  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Indian influences  Search this
Cultural policy  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_674937