Staging Indigeneity
Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History
By Katrina Phillips
262 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 22 halftones, 4 maps, 1 table, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-6231-2
Published: March 2021 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-6230-5
Published: March 2021 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-6232-9
Published: January 2021
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Across time, Phillips argues, tourism, nostalgia, and authenticity converge in the creation of salvage tourism, which blends tourism and history, contestations over citizenship, identity, belonging, and the continued use of Indians and Indianness as a means of escape, entertainment, and economic development.
About the Author
Katrina Phillips (Red Cliff Ojibwe) is assistant professor of American Indian history at Macalester College.
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“This is an important study about “playing Indian” and the complexities of American Indian identity.” – CHOICE
“Thoroughly researched and well-written . . . Phillips rejects simple narratives and, instead . . . brings a nuanced understanding of these varied motivations as well as the shifting meanings that the pageants hold for American Indians over time.” --The North Carolina Historical Review
"Phillips has a keen eye for observation and possesses a deep knowledge of these contemporary performances. Her writing is beautiful, her analysis of the productions is stunning, and her central theoretical apparatus of 'salvage tourism' is enticing."—Boyd Cothran, York University
"Phillips's model of salvage tourism will prove influential and highly adaptable, and I expect to find echoes of her core concept in my own environment for some time to come."—Andrew Denson, Western Carolina University