Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions by George Catlin, paintings by Charles King, and Wild West shows by Buffalo Bill Cody were viewed by millions worldwide. Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how this version of Indians, one that existed only in the western imagination, was commodified and sold to a global audience. He then calls for a rewriting of the history of the American west, one devoid of minstrelsy and racist pageantry, and honoring the contemporary cultural and artistic visions of people whose ancestors were shattered by American expansionism.
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Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how a version of Indians, one that existed only in the western imagination, was commodified and sold to a global audience.
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Introduction; chapterOne Selling Indians: Traveling wild West Shows, Painters, Minstrels, and Museums; chapterTwo Charles Bird King’s Studio Indians; chapterThree The Traveling Indian Medicine Show; chapterFour; chapterFive; chapterSix Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill; chapterSeven Ghost Dancers in Germany; chapterEight;
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ISBN
9781611320886
Publisert
2013-05-15
Utgiver
Left Coast Press Inc
Vekt
498 gr
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229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
236

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Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world's foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, Denzin is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Voyeur's Gaze; and The Alcoholic Self . He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly , co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln) of four editions of the landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research , coeditor (with Michael D. Giardina) of a series of plenary volumes from the annual Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, co-editor (with Lincoln) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry , founding editor of Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research , editor of three book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.