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This guide is intended to be a look at the magic behind the magic
of Disneyland Park in Anaheim, and will give the reader a greater
appreciation for the incredible efforts and innovations that create
the Disneyland experience. If seeing how a magic trick works spoils
the fun for you, then you might want to try another guide. However,
if you find yourself asking "How do they do that?" when you see an
oncoming boulder in Indiana Jones or translucent ghosts in the
Haunted Mansion, this guide is here to satisfy your curiosity. This
guidebook includes: Behind-the-scenes information for every
attraction in the park. Tips on where to spot the special touches
and inside jokes. A comprehensive list of the most notable Hidden
Mickeys in Disneyland. Puzzles and games to be played while waiting
in line for specific rides.
In August of 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition set sail
from Norfolk Navy Yard with six ships and more than seven hundred
crewmen, including technicians and scientists. Over the course of
four years the expedition made stops on the east and west coasts of
South America; visited Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, and Tahiti;
discovered the Antarctic land mass; and explored the Fiji Islands,
Tonga, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Pacific Coast of North
America. In "The Shaping of American Ethnography" Barry Alan Joyce
illuminates the process by which the Americans on the expedition
filtered their observations of the indigenous peoples they
encountered through the lens of their peculiar constructions of
"savagery" as shaped by the American experience. The native peoples
were classified according to the prevailing American perceptions of
Native Americans as "wild" and African American slaves as "docile."
The use of physical characteristics such as skin color as a
classificatory tool was subordinated to the perceived image of the
prototypical savage. Joyce argues that the nineteenth-century
explorers shared the attributes that characterize the discipline of
anthropology in any age--a reliance on synthetic systems that are
period- and culture-dependent. By applying American images of
savagery to world cultures, American scientists and explorers of
this period helped construct the foundation for an American racial
weltanschauung that contributed to the implementation of manifest
destiny and laid the ideological foundations for American expansion
and imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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