Selling the Indian: Commercializing & Appropriating American Indian Cultures

by Diana Royer and Carter Jones Meyer

Book Overview

For more than a hundred years, outsiders enamored of the perceived strengths of American Indian cultures have appropriated and distorted elements of them for their own purposes--more often than not ignoring the impact of the process on the Indians themselves. This book contains eight original contributions that consider the selling of American Indian culture and how it affects the Native community. It goes beyond studies of "white shamanism"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816521484
• ISBN13: 9780816521487
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"