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Author Denzin, Norman K., author

Title Indians on display : global commodification of native America in performance, art, and museums / Norman K. Denzin
Published Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, Inc., [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (226 pages, 8 unnumbered colored pages of plates :) illustrations
Contents Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; Introduction; Chapter One -- Selling Indians: Traveling Wild West Shows, Painters, Minstrels, and Museums; Chapter Two -- Charles Bird King's Studio Indians; Chapter Three -- The Traveling Indian Medicine Show; Chapter Four -- George Catlin's Traveling Indian Gallery; Chapter Five -- Catlin's Traveling Indian Gallery Goes to London; Chapter Six -- Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill; Chapter Seven -- Ghost Dancers in Germany; Chapter Eight -- German Indians R Us; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; About the Author
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Indians of North America -- Public opinion.
Indians in popular culture.
Indians in art.
Museum exhibits -- United States
Indians of North America -- Exhibitions
Folklore -- Performance -- United States
Public opinion -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
Folklore -- Performance
Indians in art
Indians in popular culture
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Public opinion
Museum exhibits
Public opinion
United States
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013004764
ISBN 9781611320909
1611320909
9781611327090
1611327091
9781315426815
1315426811