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Crafting the Indian knowledge, desire and play in Indianist reenactment

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Berghahn Books 2012Description: xii,287pISBN:
  • 9780857453440
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 970.00497 22 KA-C
Contents:
Setting the stage : Indianism and what it is not -- Indian hobbies, European contexts : history, historiography, ethnography -- "Is this play?" : reframing metaphoric action on Indianist playgrounds. Buffalo Days Camp 2003 : journal -- Amateurs at work : modes of knowledge making and remaking -- Shifting selves around authentic replicas : crafting the past into the present -- Matter, metaphor, miniature : marvels of the model -- Appendix. Missouri River story : a tale of playing for high stakes.
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Expanded version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--McGill University, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-274) and index.

Setting the stage : Indianism and what it is not -- Indian hobbies, European contexts : history, historiography, ethnography -- "Is this play?" : reframing metaphoric action on Indianist playgrounds. Buffalo Days Camp 2003 : journal -- Amateurs at work : modes of knowledge making and remaking -- Shifting selves around authentic replicas : crafting the past into the present -- Matter, metaphor, miniature : marvels of the model -- Appendix. Missouri River story : a tale of playing for high stakes.

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