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For those among you interested in skilled manifestations of human curiosity, check out this new book by a Manchester Anthropology colleague:
Crafting 'the Indian': Knowledge, Desire and Play in Indianist Reenactment
by Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, Berghahn Books 2012
Available at half price until June 18 with this flyer:
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/extras/docs/flyer/KalshovenCrafting_9780857453440.html
Summary
In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries. "Indian hobbyists" dress in homemade replicas of clothing, craft museum-quality replicas of artifacts, meet in fields dotted with tepees and reenact aspects of North American Indian lifeworlds, using ethnographies, travel diaries, and museum collections as resources. Grounded in fieldwork set among networks of Indian hobbyists in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic, this monograph provides insights into the increasing popularity of reenactment practices as they relate to a deeper understanding of human perception, imagination, and creativity.
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Her work on replicas and imitation ties into a more general interest in the relations between people, their "things", and the landscapes with which they engage, identify, or take issue.
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