{"product_id":"reimagining-indians","title":"Reimagining Indians","description":"\u003cp\u003eReimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers  whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century.  Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled  to the American West and discovered \"exotics\" in their midst. Drawn to  Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about  modern American culture, these writers produced a\n\u003cbr\u003ebody of work that celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity. Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers,  their books represent popular versions of\n\u003cbr\u003eethnography. In revealing  their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture,  they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural  survival in a world indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also  encouraged notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history, and the history of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44157071982830,"sku":"9780195157277","price":124.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195157277_0b5d2cf3-4b46-4c5c-893e-346b78078d33.jpg?v=1706247759","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/reimagining-indians","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}