Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how a version of Indians, one that existed only in the western imagination, was commodified and sold to a global audience.
Norman Denzin shows how artistic representations of Little Big Horn demonstrate the changing perceptions—often racist—of Native America by the majority culture in this multilayered performance ethnography
Part autoethnography, part historical narrative, part art criticism, part cultural theory, Denzin creates a postmodern bricolage of images, staged dramas, quotations, reminiscences and stories that strike to the essence of the postmodern vision of the American West.
Brings together leading scholars from cultural studies, education, gender studies, and sociology to reposition critical cultural studies... Læs mere
Emotions--fleeting, insubstantial, changeable, and ambiguous--seem to defy study and analysis
A comprehensive collection of contemporary and classical readings on sociological method, this book provides students with systematic analyses of each of the major strategies employed in sociological research