Petra Tjitske Kalshoven

Crafting 'The Indian' (eBook, ePUB)

Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Indian hobbyists" dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects of North American Indian lifeworlds, using ethnographies, travel diaries, and museum collections as resources. Grounded in fieldwork set among networks of Indian hobbyists in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic, this ethnography analyzes this contemporary practice of serious leisure with respect to the general human desire for play, metaphor, and allusion. It provides insights into the increasing popularity of reenactment practices as they relate to a deeper understanding of human perception, imagination, and creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781836957799
• Artikelnr.: 76129231

Autorenporträt

Petra Tjitske Kalshovenis a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She has taught in McGill University's interdisciplinary Arts Legacy program and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Aberdeen from 2007-2009.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Indianism and What It Is Not
Chapter 2. Indian Hobbies, European Contexts: History, Historiography,
Ethnography
Chapter 3. "Is This Play?" Reframing Metaphoric Action on Indianist
Playgrounds Buffalo Days Camp 2003: Journal
Chapter 4. Amateurs in Action: the Makings of Knowledge through
Improvisation
Chapter 5. Shifting Selves around Authentic Replicas: Crafting the Past
into the Present
Chapter 6. Matter, Metaphor, Miniature: Marvels of the Model
Appendix: Missouri River Story: A Tale of Playing for High Stakes