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Playing Indian / Philip J. Deloria.

By: Series: Yale historical publications (Unnumbered)Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998.Description: 249 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0300071116 (cloth: alk. paper)
  • 9780300071115 (cloth: alk. paper)
  • 9780300080674 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0300080670 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E98.P99 D45 1998
Contents:
American Indians, American identities -- Patriotic Indians and identities of revolution -- Fraternal Indians and republican identities -- Literary Indians and ethnographic objects -- Natural Indians and identities of modernity -- Hobby Indians, authenticity, and race in Cold War America -- Counterculture Indians and the New Age -- The Grateful Dead Indians.
Summary: The author explores America's fascination with North American Indian culture from the Boston Tea Party to fraternal societies and literary representations.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks E98.P99 D45 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33039001494649

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-241) and index.

American Indians, American identities -- Patriotic Indians and identities of revolution -- Fraternal Indians and republican identities -- Literary Indians and ethnographic objects -- Natural Indians and identities of modernity -- Hobby Indians, authenticity, and race in Cold War America -- Counterculture Indians and the New Age -- The Grateful Dead Indians.

The author explores America's fascination with North American Indian culture from the Boston Tea Party to fraternal societies and literary representations.

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