Crafting 'The Indian': Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven
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.
年:
2012
出版社:
Berghahn Books
语言:
english
页:
300
ISBN 10:
0857453440
ISBN 13:
9780857453440
文件:
PDF, 2.34 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2012