War Bonnets and Calumets in the Heart of Europe: Native American Exhibition in Rosenheim, Germany

Indianer – Ureinwohner Nordamerikas. Lokschuppen. Rosenheim, Germany, April 8, 2011 – November 6, 2011

Authors

  • Martin Heřmanský

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3559

Keywords:

Native Americans, representations, museum, stereotypes

Abstract

This review essay focuses on representational practices of Native Americans in the exhibition Indianer – Ureinwohner Nordamerikas (Indians – Indigenous Peoples of North America) in Germany. Through an analysis of the exhibition contents, it aims to assess used representational practices and discuss how this exhibition deals with common stereotypes of Native Americans. It argues that, while the exhibition contests many common stereotypes, it also consciously or unconsciously reproduces a few others. In the conclusion it tries to find the reasons why this is so, despite the fact that the exhibition curator is one of the first anthropologists focusing on the issue of representations of Native Americans.

Author Biography

Martin Heřmanský

is a socio-cultural anthropologist working as a teaching fellow at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. His research interests include Native Americans, youth subcultures and body modifications. Alongside these he is also conducting team ethnographic research of the post-rural community in Slovakia. In his PhD dissertation he addresses the issue of body piercing as a transgressive practice in youth culture and its commoditization in contemporary Czech society.

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Published

2011-07-01

How to Cite

Heřmanský, M. (2011). War Bonnets and Calumets in the Heart of Europe: Native American Exhibition in Rosenheim, Germany: Indianer – Ureinwohner Nordamerikas. Lokschuppen. Rosenheim, Germany, April 8, 2011 – November 6, 2011. Lidé města, 13(2), 277-301. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3559

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2011)

Section

Review Article

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