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Linda Now available for advance order: "Native Performers in Wild West shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney" published by University of Oklahoma Press!!
Linda Going through the PDF proofs of my upcoming book is very exciting!
Ph.D. Anthropology
Thesis Title: Spectacular Native Performances: From the Wild West to the Tourist Site, 19th c. to the present
About
My current research examines Native - non-Native encounters, recently in the context of tourism and other performance spaces, where representations of culture, identity and history are negotiated. In this research, I address questions of agency and representation, focusing on Native experiences and perspectives. I am also interested in questions of indigeneity in a globalized world, in particular how indigeneity intersects with expressive culture and political agendas.
IN PRESS (Fall 2012). Native Performers in Wild West Shows: From Buffalo Bill to Euro Disney, University of Oklahoma Press.
- An examination of Wild West shows - past and present - focusing on Native North American experiences and perspectives. (See also book chapter posted).
Scarangella McNenly (IN PRESS, Fall 2012). “Performance in Tourism: Transforming the Gaze and the Tourist Encounter at Híwus feasthouse.” In Dancing Cultures: Globalisation, Tourism and Identity in the Anthropology of Dance, Helen Neveu Kringelbach and Jonathan Skinner, eds. Oxford: Berghahn.
Research interests and experience:
- Indigeneity and globalization; mobility; (post)colonialism; First Nations of Canada; visual and performative culture; museums and tourism; politics of representation; narrative, oral history, and ethnohistory; material culture
