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Staging "the drama": The continuing importance of cultural tourism in the gaming era.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Staging "the drama": The continuing importance of cultural tourism in the gaming era.
Author:	Thompson, Matthew D.
Description:	357 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0232.
Notes:	Adviser: Valerie Lambert.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-01A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3387778
ISBN:	9781109541083

Staging "the drama": The continuing importance of cultural tourism in the gaming era.
Thompson, Matthew D.

Staging "the drama": The continuing importance of cultural tourism in the gaming era. - 357 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0232.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.

Issues of indigenous self-representation are of major concern for U.S. tribal nations. For the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) self-representation has meant refashioning the way they are portrayed in a major theatrical production on their reservation. My dissertation investigates the reinvention of the outdoor drama Unto These Hills, produced 1950-2004 in Cherokee, North Carolina, by the White dominated Cherokee Historical Association (CHA) and the role of the EBCI in exerting tribal sovereignty over the formerly non-Indian controlled institutions which produce representations of their history and culture for tourists. In 2006, under Cherokee management, the fifty-seven year old drama was transformed into Unto These Hills...a Retelling. My research explores the social conflicts, negotiations, creative processes and performances surrounding this change as the tribe steered its most public representation of the past from a narrative of accommodation to one of Cherokee nationalism.

ISBN: 9781109541083Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

Staging "the drama": The continuing importance of cultural tourism in the gaming era.
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