TY - BOOK ID - 100054367 TI - Crafting "the Indian" : knowledge, desire, and play in Indianist reenactment PY - 2012 SN - 9780857453440 0857453440 9780857453457 0857453459 1280496665 9786613591890 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Indians of North America KW - Indians in popular culture KW - Historical reenactments KW - Indianists KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - Indiens d'Amérique dans la culture populaire KW - Reconstitution historique KW - Amérindianistes KW - History. KW - Public opinion. KW - Social life and customs. KW - Histoire KW - Opinion publique KW - Moeurs et coutumes KW - Indians in popular culture. KW - Historical reenactments. KW - Indianists. KW - Anthropologists KW - Indians KW - Historic reenactments KW - Historical re-enactments KW - Historical reenactment KW - History KW - Re-enactments, Historical KW - Reenactment of historical events KW - Reenactments, Historical KW - Popular culture KW - Historiography KW - Reenactments KW - Customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100054367 AB - In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong 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 teepees and re-enact aspects of the North American Indian lifestyle, 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 ethnography analyzes this contemporary practice o ER -