Authentic Indians : Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast /
Analyzes cultural adaptation among aboriginal people in the Pacific Northwest, tracing the colonial origins and political implications of ideas about native "authenticity."
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: authenticity and colonial cosmology
- Local politics and colonial relations : the Kwakwaka'wakw at home on the Northwest coast
- "The march of the aborigine to civilization" : live exhibits and the world's Columbian exposition, 1893
- Theaters of contact : the Kwakwaka'wakw at the fair
- Picking, posing, and performing : the hop fields and income for aboriginal workers
- Harvest gatherings : aboriginal agendas, economy, and culture
- Indian watchers : colonial imagination and colonial reality
- The inside passage to authenticity : Sitka tourism and the Tlingit
- "The trend is upward" : mission and cottage life
- Civilization on trial : the Davis case
- Conclusion: authenticity's call.