"Like a patchwork quilt": The visual rhetoric of authenticity at Indiana powwows
by Cselenyi, Zsuzsanna, Ph.D., INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 2011, 141 pages; 3466328

Abstract:

Through personal narratives of powwow involvement and motivation, this dissertation examines the particular ways in which regional and personal identities are being formed, adjusted, negotiated and expressed through powwow regalia. Powwow dancers in Indiana use dance clothes as an explicit marker of Indianness and powwows as a justifying context for ideologies of authenticity as realized through clothing. Powwow involvement is also used to consolidate, reclaim, craft, revive and create an identity that authenticates one's place in the powwow community in which internal and external roles and rules reinforce each other. Giving voice to all the different constituencies of Midwestern powwows, from Native Americans to hobbyists and historic re-enactors, the study explores the factors that influence the bases and strategies of such authentication, as well as the rhetorics by which these ideologies are expressed.

 
AdviserHenry Glassie
SchoolINDIANA UNIVERSITY
SourceDAI/A 72-10, p. , Aug 2011
Source TypeDissertation
SubjectsFolklore; Native American studies
Publication Number3466328
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