Selling the Indian : commercializing & appropriating American Indian cultures

Meyer, Carter Jones, 1957- (Added Author). Royer, Diana, 1959- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0816521484 (paper : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0816521476 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780816521487 (paper : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 97808165214710 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: xix, 279 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2001.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Pt. I. Staging the Indian. 1. The "Shy" Cocopa Go to the Fair / Nancy J. Parezo and John W. Troutman. 2. Command Performances: Staging Native Americans at Tillicum Village / Katie N. Johnson and Tamara Underiner. 3. Savage Desires: The Gendered Construction of the American Indian in Popular Media / S. Elizabeth Bird. 4. "Beyond Feathers and Beads": Interlocking Narratives in the Music and Dance of Tokeya Inajin (Kevin Locke) / Pauline Tuttle -- Pt. II. Marketing the Indian. 5. "The Idea of Help": White Women Reformers and the Commercialization of Native American Women's Arts / Erik Trump. 6. Saving the Pueblos: Commercialism and Indian Reform in the 1920s / Carter Jones Meyer. 7. Marketing Traditions: Cherokee Basketry and Tourist Economies / Sarah H. Hill. 8. Crafts, Tourism, and Traditional Life in Chiapas, Mexico: A Tale Related by a Pillowcase / Chris Goertzen.