S. Elizabeth Bird

Dressing In Feathers (eBook, PDF)

The Construction Of The Indian In American Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about the fabrication of the Indian by White culture and demonstrates the complacency of white culture in its representation of its troubled relationship with American Indians. It offers careful case studies to describe the dominant cultural fabrication of the Indian.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429969454
• Artikelnr.: 54097896

Autorenporträt

S. Elizabeth Bird is professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Constructing the Indian, 1830s
1990s
2 The First but Not the Last of the "Vanishing Indians": Edwin Forrest and Mythic Re
creations of the Native Population
3 The Narratives of Sitting Bull's Surrender: Bailey, Dix & Mead's Photographic Western
4 Reduced to Images: American Indians in Nineteenth
Century Advertising
5 "Hudson's Bay Company Indians": Images of Native People and the Red River Pageant, 1920
6 Science and Spectacle: Native American Representation in Early Cinema
7 "There Is Madness in the Air": The 1926 Haskell Homecoming and Popular Representations of Sports in Federal Indian Boarding Schools
8 Indigenous Versus Colonial Discourse: Alcohol and American Indian Identity
9 "My Grandmother Was a Cherokee Princess": Representations of Indians in Southern History
10 Florida Seminoles and the Marketing of the Last Frontier
11 Segregated Stories: The Colonial Contours of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
12 A War of Words: How News Frames Define Legitimacy in a Native Conflict
13 Going Indian: Discovery, Adoption, and Renaming Toward a "True American," from Deerslayer to Dances with Wolves
14 "Her Beautiful Savage": The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male
15 Cultural Heritage in Northern Exposure
16 Not My Fantasy: The Persistence of Indian Imagery in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
17 Moo Mesa: Some Thoughts on Stereotypes and Image Appropriation
18 What Does One Look Like?