Crafting 'The Indian' : : Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment / / Petra Tjitske Kalshoven.
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 o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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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