How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for two centuries. This affinity stems directly from German polycentrism, notions of tribalism, a devotion to resistance, a longing for freedom, and a melancholy sense of shared fate.
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H. Glenn Penny is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa and author of Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 392 ● ISBN 9781469607658 ● File size 5.8 MB ● Publisher The University of North Carolina Press ● City Chapel Hill ● Country US ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5509443 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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