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.... Commentaries Cultural Displays and Tourism in Africa and the Americas Kathleen M. Adams, Loyola University Chicago 6933 ETHNOHISTORY / 50:3 / sheet 157 of 178 In reflecting on the articles...

...Jean M. O'Brien; Lisa Blee This article explores questions surrounding the memory work of monuments and place by taking up a puzzling instance of public display of history: the presence of an enormous monument to the important seventeenth-century Pokanoket leader Massasoit in Kansas City, Missouri...

...Gerhard Schutte During the apartheid years in South Africa, traditional African cultures were mostly hidden from the public, except for museum displays and governmentally supervised presentations. Since the abolition of apartheid, the“cultural village” as a display of “authentic” tribal life has...

... of the Indianized other as mascot becomes the contested site for these cultural appropriations. The manipulated body of the Indian mascot is presented for the public gaze in stark contrast to the reality of Native American lives and realities. The consumptive aspects of these public displays reinforce stereotypes...

...John J. Bodinger de Uriarte This article examines representational strategies used by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to define and display cultural authenticity—in tribal, regional, and pan-Indian terms—in public, tourist spaces. It focuses upon the articulation of cultural identity...

... York: American Museum of Natural History. Clifford, James 1991 Four Northwest Coast Museums:Travel Reflections. In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display . Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, eds. Pp. 212 -54. Washington, dc: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1997 Routes...

... The Predicament of Culture . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1992 Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections.In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display . Ivan Karp and Steven Lavine, eds. Pp. 212 -54. Washington, dc: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1997 Routes: Travel...

... officials focused heavily on anthropological displays, while San Francisco officials did not, so scholars have generally ignored the PPIE’s Indian exhibits in favor of discussion of its smaller, southern neighbor. Yet the PPIE was a significant cultural event, and thus its depiction of Indians is worthy...

... for storage, display, and even- tual retrieval. On the Andean side, these tasks were achieved by the use of the khipu (Quechua: “knot a three-dimensional tactile device of colorful knotted cords made of cotton or camelid fibers. On the Spanish side, infor- mation storage took the form of writing...

... that miners climbed to move from one level to the next. One of the most impressive displays explained how people processed their own clumps of ore, using a round grinding stone called la rastra. The mannequin in this display bore an incongruous smile, I thought, since his unprotected hands would have...

.... They later created remarkable glistening copies of the objects in the show, which they displayed at the entrance of their school. Now their “magic” had intruded into a key bastion of rationalism in civil society: a state-controlled public school. The vitalized things provoked a deep fear in some...

... by—the majority of its own participants, so that this nationalistic display appears to be an unself-conscious rendering of a defunct colonial presence. From a localized perspective it is viewed in essence as the singular way in which...

..., minerals, precious woods, and other materials indigenous to the region—from the Americas to Spain for study, observation, and display in natural history museums, menageries, and botanical gardens. 3 Shipments of New World animals to European imperial capitals began soon after contact, in 1493, when...

... As Marketplace:Commodification of the Exotic at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago,1893. In Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display . Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, eds. Pp. 344 -65. Washington, dc: Smithsonian Institution Press. Hoover, Dwight W. 1990 Jamestown 1907: Jamestown...

..., Indian-style football afforded Indian men an opportunity to display their physical abilities. Football clearly presented myriad physical challenges. ‘‘Their goals William Wood explained, ‘‘be a mile long, placed on the sands, which are as even as a board. Their ball is no bigger than a handball, which...

... Eastern Algonquian or Northern Iroquoian peoples and Europeans, and subsequently Americans, were announced, facilitated, and recorded using articles made from shell beads, or wampum. The display or exchange of wampum strings and patterned belts marked both routine and critical moments in the negotiating...

...- tions. Fairgoers from Guatemala, the United States, and Europe entered the fairgrounds near the racetrack and where sporting events were played. But the sporting events, as well as the Ferris wheels, arcades, commercial displays, livestock shows, and industrial exhibits, did not draw the throngs...

... tors have constructed a context for their interpretation consistent with the main theme of this volume. Even when contributors document survival of tradition (rather than the creation of new identity), they display particular...

.... Repetition underlay the daily schedule in the colegios and was consistently applied to religious teachings, public ceremonial displays, and catechization. The apparently rigid schedule in the schools ensured that students remained busy and focused on religious and other schooling practices throughout the day...