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This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and
cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New
York-home of the Baseball Hall of Fame-and Dyersville, Iowa-site of
the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of
Dreams. .
By what magic is a simple geographical space such as a city or town
transformed into cultural significance, into a "place" people
travel to, enshrine, mythologize, and consume? What stardust falls
upon the ground and in the public's mind that moves us to worship a
piece of property that was once an unremarkable field or vacant
lot? This book, written with the passion of both baseball fan and
cultural anthropologist, unravels the mysteries of Cooperstown, New
York-home of the Baseball Hall of Fame-and Dyersville, Iowa-site of
the baseball field made enormous by the Hollywood movie Field of
Dreams. Charles Springwood provides insight into the postmodern
culture of the United States in which tourist sites and "American
heritages" are culturally produced and consumed, by studying the
people who visit them. The results of his interviews with visitors
to these sites speak to issues of youth, innocence, family,
domesticity, nation, and the hegemonic practices of the "leisure
class." The book provides a reading of America steeped in
narratives of pastoralism and nostalgia. Behind it all (the curtain
behind which the great wizard sits) is the corporate mind creating
an atmosphere of false histories and reconstructed pasts.
Springwood pulls the reader's heart in two directions, seeking to
honor the beautiful myth of baseball's pastoralism through two
sacred geographical sites while also seeking to expose the
underpinnings of myth-making to a gentle but constant light.
A growing controversy in recent years has arisen around the use and
abuse of Native American team mascots. The Cleveland Indians,
Atlanta Braves, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs, Florida
State Seminoles, and so forth—these are just a few of the images
and names popularly associated with Native Americans that are still
used as mascots by professional sports teams, dozens of
universities, and countless high schools. This practice, a
troubling legacy of Native–Euro-American relations in the United
States, has sparked heated debates and intense protests that
continue to escalate. Team Spirits is the first comprehensive
look at the Native American mascots controversy. In this work
activists and academics explore the origins of Native American
mascots, the messages they convey, and the reasons for their
persistence into the twenty-first century. The essays examine hotly
contested uses of mascots, including the Washington Redskins, the
Cleveland Indians, and the University of Illinois's Chief
Illiniwek, as well as equally problematic but more complicated
examples such as the Florida State Seminoles and the multitude of
Native mascots at Marquette University. Also showcased are examples
of successful opposition, including an end to Native American
mascots at Springfield College and in Los Angeles public schools.
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