Description: Staging Indigeneity : Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, Paperback by Phillips, Katrina M., ISBN 1469662310, ISBN-13 9781469662312, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like 'Tecumseh!' in Chillicothe, Ohio, and 'Unto These Hills' in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged performances that claimed to honor an Indigenous past while depicting that past on white settlers' terms. Linking the origins of these performances to their present-day incarnations, this incisiv reveals how they constituted what Katrina Phillips calls 'salvage tourism' - a set of practices paralleling so-called salvage ethnography, which documented the histories, languages, and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing"--
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Book Title: Staging Indigeneity : Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Nati
Number of Pages: 262 Pages
Publication Name: Staging Indigeneity : Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Theater / History & Criticism, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / General, Native American
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Katrina Phillips
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
