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- Title
A DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL RESISTANCE: INDIGENOUS CONSTRUCTIONS OF BLACKFOOT SUPERIORITY.
- Authors
Deutschlander, Siegrid; Miller, Leslie J.
- Abstract
Tourism is undervalued as a domain that may support marginalized groups in their political struggle for equality in mainstream society. This article uses a discourse analytic approach to examine counterhegemonic claims regarding the buffalo-hunting Plains Indian Culture Complex of the First Nations of Treaty-7 in southern Alberta, Canada. Ethnographic fieldwork and interviews were conducted at various tourist sites in this geographic area where the interpreters and displays strategically contest dominant representations of indigenous cultures as primitive and inferior. In particular, the claim of technological competence asserts the superiority of the Blackfoot culture of the North American Plains for various practices including tipi construction, powwow dancing, and buffalo hunting. We argue that this claim challenges the dominant view regarding the technological inferiority of indigenous cultures, which has been perpetuated in the colonial binary of Western/non-Western societies. This research draws on the insights of Cultural Studies to explore the political potential in the production of cultural performances.
- Subjects
ALBERTA; CANADA; TOURISM; CULTURE; ECOTOURISM; AMERICAN bison hunting; AMERICAN bison hunters
- Publication
Tourism Culture & Communication, 2004, Vol 5, Issue 1, p59
- ISSN
1098-304X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3727/1098304042781463