Crafting 'The Indian' : : Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment / / Petra Tjitske Kalshoven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kalshoven, Petra Tjitske,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

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. It provides insights into the increasing popularity of reenactment practices as they relate to a deeper understanding of human perception, imagination, and creativity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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?” Reframing Metaphoric Action on Indianist Playgrounds -- Buffalo Days Camp 2003: Journal -- 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 -- Index