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Indians on Display: Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums

by Norman K Denzin
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781611320886
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
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  • Pages: 236
  • Original Price: GBP 155.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Native American Studies, Indigenous / General, and Museum Studies

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.

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. 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, three journals, and several book series on these topics. This is the third volume of a trilogy of books by Denzin--also including Searching for Yellowstone (2008) and Custer on Canvas (2011)--that reconceptualizes the postmodern American west through a critical, racially-sensitive, performative lens. He is also founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

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