{"product_id":"native-acts-indian-performance-1603-1832-paperback-1","title":"Native Acts: Indian Performance, 1603-1832 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua David Bellin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLaura L. Mielke\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePhilip J. Deloria\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before the Boston Tea Party, where colonists staged a revolutionary act by masquerading as Indians, people looked to Native Americans for the symbols, imagery, and acts that showed what it meant to be \"American.\" And for just as long, observers have largely overlooked the role that Native peoples themselves played in creating and enacting the Indian performances appropriated by European Americans. It is precisely this neglected notion of Native Americans \"playing Indian\" that \u003ci\u003eNative Acts\u003c\/i\u003e explores. These essays--by historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and folklorists--provide the first broadly based chronicle of the performance of \"Indianness\" by Natives in North America from the seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. \u003cbr\u003eThe authors' careful and imaginative analysis of historical documents and performative traditions reveals an intricate history of intercultural exchange. In sum, \u003ci\u003eNative Acts\u003c\/i\u003e challenges any simple understanding of cultural \"authenticity\" even as it celebrates the dynamic role of performance in the American Indian pursuit of self-determination. In this collection, Indian peoples emerge as active, vocal, embodied participants in cultural encounters whose performance powerfully shaped the course of early American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua David Bellin is a professor of English at La Roche College. He is the author of several books, most recently, \u003ci\u003eMedicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932\u003c\/i\u003e. Laura L. Mielke is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas and the author of \u003ci\u003eMoving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801551102259,"sku":"9780803226326","price":63.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/6E7vVx8Fj89780803226326_3574ad45-c98d-4808-aad6-ba50a17883c7.webp?v=1785968984","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/native-acts-indian-performance-1603-1832-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}