I would like to find people with research interests in current popular
media, but also in other types of pop culture - eg. material culture,
artefacts etc., or in oral/folk culture -- eg. legends, jokes etc. (Not
Native American legends as such, but urban legends ABOUT Native
Americans.) I don't really want overview types essays (eg. "The image of
the Indian in Film,"), but rather studies of particular cultural phenomena.
I would also like to find people who are working on historical popular
culture -- travel writing, 19th century popular plays, news accounts
etc. -- in fact anything in popular culture in the broadest sense.
My overall theme will be how the image of "the Indian" has been
constructed in American popular culture over time. I would be very
interested in hearing from Native American scholars, particularly those
working to show how Native Americans might be constructing new images for
themselves and for the culture at large.
If you have a complete paper, or if you are working on something and would
like to talk about it, please contact me by e-mail, or at:
Elizabeth Bird
Department of Interdisciplinary Programs
208 Cina, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN 55812.
Phone: 218 726 8575
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Thanks,
Liz Bird