Blood Brothers and Peace Pipes - Performing the Wild West in German Festivals (Hardcover)

Nineteenth-century writer Karl May wrote novels about a fictionalized American Wild West that count among the most popular books of German literature to this day. His stories left an imprint on German culture, resulting in a variety of Wild West festivals featuring Native Americans and frontier settlers. These Karl May festivals are hosted widely throughout German-speaking countries today. This book, based on years of fieldwork observing and studying the festivals, plays, events, and groups that comprise this subculture, addresses a larger, timely issue: cultural transfer and appropriations. Are Germans dressing up in American Indian costumes paying tribute or offending the cultures they are representing? Avoiding simplistic answers, A. Dana Weber considers the complexity of cultural enactments as they relate both to the distinctly German phenomenon as well as to larger questions of cultural representations in American and European live performance traditions.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	A. Dana Weber
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	424
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-32350-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Myths & mythology Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore Books > History > European history > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Myths & mythology
LSN:	0-299-32350-1
Barcode:	9780299323509

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