Imagining Indians in the Southwest Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past

Name: Imagining Indians in the Southwest Persistent Visions of a Primitive Past
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ISBN: 9781560988342

ISBN-10: 1560988347

ISBN-13: 9781560988342

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Authors: Leah Dilworth

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In Imagining Indians in the Southwest, Leah Dilworth examines the creation and enduring potency of the early twentieth-century myth of the primitive Indian. She demonstrates how visions of Indians -- created by tour companies, anthropologists, collectors of Indian crafts, and modernist writers -- have reflected white anxieties about complex racial and cultural issues. Contending that Native Americans of the Southwest still are seen primarily as living relics, Dilworth describes the ways in which they have resisted cultural colonialism.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 12/17/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Representing the Hopi Snake Dance


Textualizing the Snake Dance


The Snake Dance in Ethnographic Exhibits


The Snake Dance as a Tourist Attraction


Cultural Incorporation of the Snake Dance


The Snake Dance as a Spectacle



Discovering Indians in Fred Harvey's Southwest


The Rise of the Fred Harvey Company


The Spectale of Fred Harvey's Southwest


Appearing and Disappearing in Fred Harvey's Southwest


The Machinery of the Tourist Spectacle


The Touristic Exchange


Re-presenting the Touristic Encounter



The Spectacle of Indian Artisanal Labor


The Development of Markets for Indian Crafts


The Collector-Connoisseur


The Indian Artisan


Imagining Primitive Labor


Artisanal Craft as a Tool of Reform


Limitations of the Artisan Stereotype



Modernism, Primitivism, and the American Rhythm


Modernist Primitivism


Cultural Nationalism and Regionalism


Primitivism as a Cultural Cure


The Indian and Aesthetic Authenticity


The Semiotics of Playing Indian


Epilogue


Notes


References


Index