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Playing Indian by Philip Joseph Deloria (1999, Paperback) 
Playing Indian by Philip Joseph Deloria (1999, Paperback)

 
Playing Indian by Philip Joseph Deloria (1999, Paperback)

Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1999-11-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0300080670
ISBN-13: 9780300080674
Product ID: EPID1047112
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Publication Date:1999-11-01

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Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
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Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Moving from the Boston Tea Party to the present, this provocative book explores the ways non-Indian Americans have acted out their fantasies about Indians in order to experience national, modern, and personal identities. In this complicated tug-of-war between imaginings and actions, Indian people have been embraced and rejected, frequently humiliated and occasionally empowered. The historical anxieties revealed by Playing Indian continue to haunt Americans -- both Indian and non-Indian -- to this day.

The Boston Tea Party, the Order of Red Men, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Grateful Dead concerts are just a few examples of the American tendency to appropriate Indian dress and act out Indian roles. This provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Indians to shape national identity in different eras--and how Indian people have reacted to these imitations of their native dress, language, and ritual.

Industry Reviews
"'Playing Indian' will help the reader understand why, from the revellers at Merrymount to the Berkeley tribes of the 1960s, every oppositional current in America has found its way to the people called 'Indians,' and why, though (as D.H. Lawrence said) the Red Indians will never again possess the broad lands of America, their spirit will."
Publisher's Catalog - Noel Ignatiev

"A valuable contribution to Native American studies, and worthy of attention by readers in many fields."
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