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Pauline Turner Strong

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Description:"American Indians and the American Imaginary" considers the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book 's wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narratives to modern film, from the camp fire to the sports arena, from legal and scholarly texts to tribally-controlled museums and cultural centers.The author 's ethnographic approach to what she calls representational practices focus on the emergence, use, and transformation of representations in the course of social life. Central themes include identity and otherness, indigenous cultural politics, and cultural memory, property, performance, citizenship, and transformation. "American Indians and the American Imaginary" will interest general readers as well as scholars and students in anthropology, history, literature, education, cultural studies, gender studies, American Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. It is essential reading for those interested in the processes through which national, tribal, and indigenous identities have been imagined, contested, and refigured.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries. To get started finding American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "American Indians and the American Imaginary" considers the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book 's wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narratives to modern film, from the camp fire to the sports arena, from legal and scholarly texts to tribally-controlled museums and cultural centers.The author 's ethnographic approach to what she calls representational practices focus on the emergence, use, and transformation of representations in the course of social life. Central themes include identity and otherness, indigenous cultural politics, and cultural memory, property, performance, citizenship, and transformation. "American Indians and the American Imaginary" will interest general readers as well as scholars and students in anthropology, history, literature, education, cultural studies, gender studies, American Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. It is essential reading for those interested in the processes through which national, tribal, and indigenous identities have been imagined, contested, and refigured.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries. To get started finding American Indians and the American Imaginary: Cultural Representation Across the Centuries, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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