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Selling the Indian
Meyer, Carter Jones; Royer, Diana
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Description for Selling the Indian
Paperback. Num Pages: 279 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
For more than a hundred years, outsiders enamored of the perceived strengths of American Indian cultures have appropriated and distorted elements of them for their own purposes more often than not ignoring the impact of the process on the Indians themselves. This book contains eight original contributions that consider the selling of American Indian culture and how it affects the Native community. It goes beyond studies of white shamanism to focus on commercial ventures, challenging readers to reconsider how Indian cultures have been commercialized in the twentieth century. Some selections examine how Indians have been displayed to the public, beginning ... Read more
For more than a hundred years, outsiders enamored of the perceived strengths of American Indian cultures have appropriated and distorted elements of them for their own purposes more often than not ignoring the impact of the process on the Indians themselves. This book contains eight original contributions that consider the selling of American Indian culture and how it affects the Native community. It goes beyond studies of white shamanism to focus on commercial ventures, challenging readers to reconsider how Indian cultures have been commercialized in the twentieth century. Some selections examine how Indians have been displayed to the public, beginning ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
279
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
279
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816521487
SKU
V9780816521487
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99-1
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