Reimagining Indians : Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940
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Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and
discovered "exotics" in their midst. Drawn to Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about modern American culture, these writers produced a body of work that celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity.
Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers, their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture, they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural survival in a world
indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also encouraged notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history, and the history of the
American West.
Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940 ,Sherry L. Smith,Oxford University Press, USA,0195136357,19th century,20th Century American Literature,20th century,American - General,American literature,History,History and criticism,History: World,Indians in literature,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Native American,Special Subjects In Literature,English,Ethnography,History / Native American,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,History, American | Native American,Indigenous peoples,Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century,USA,c 1800 to c 1900
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