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Journal Article
Dancing Gods: Erna Fergusson's Travels toward Exoticism
1992
Overview
Erna Ferguson's 1931 book 'Dancing Gods' exemplifies both the virtues and the deficiencies of 20th-century travel literature focusing on the Indians of the US Southwest. The book relates Ferguson's observations of ceremonial dancing among New Mexico's Indians and gives a particularly detailed account of the Hopi's Shalako dances. Like earlier travel writers, Ferguson extolled the alleged exoticism of Indian customs as a means of finding values lacking in her own society. However, Ferguson's book also reveals an unconsciously patronizing attitude toward the Indians.
Publisher
Native American Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley,University of Nebraska Press,University of California, Native American Studies Program
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