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Petra Tjitske Kalshoven - Crafting
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Crafting "the Indian"

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Description for Crafting "the Indian" Hardcover. 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.. Num Pages: 300 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; GM; HBJK; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.

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 tepees and reenact aspects of North American Indian lifeworlds, 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 of serious leisure with respect to the general human desire for play, metaphor, and allusion. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857453440
SKU
V9780857453440
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Petra Tjitske Kalshoven
Petra Tjitske Kalshovenis a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She has taught in McGill University’s interdisciplinary Arts Legacy program and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen from 2007–2009.

Reviews for Crafting "the Indian"
“With her exploration of Indianism Kalshoven combines research areas such as Cultural Anthropology with History and Performance Studies in an impressive manner. In the face of growing scholarly interest in popular use of historical practices like ‘Reenactmen’t, resp.’ Living History’, her readable und successful analysis offers not only interesting but also numerous complementary findings concerning performative practices in historical culture. ... Read more

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