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'Reversing the Gaze' with Early Native American Visual Imagery
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Bergseth, Amy Dianne
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Year and Degree
2008, Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, College of Arts and Sciences - History.
Abstract
In her article 'Reversing the Gaze: Early Native American Images of Europeans and Euro-Americans,' A. Ruoff focused on literary images. This thesis, however, analyzes visual images produced by Native Americans of Europeans from the seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century. Although less prolific than the well-known representations produced by their Euro-American counterparts, Native visual images similarly express perceptions of the 'other.' Using skills acquired to 'read the visual record,' this paper argues that Native produced images of Europeans are a rich and under-utilized source for understanding early interactions between the two groups and are early expressions of indigenous self-identification. Native images leave out racial difference, and instead use cultural markers-dress, weapons-as the distinguishing feature of Europeans.
Committee
Carla Pestana, PhD (Advisor)
Stephen Norris, PhD (Committee Member)
Daniel Cobb, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
98 p.
Subject Headings
American History
;
Native Americans
Keywords
visual imagery
;
Native American
;
Indian
;
depictions
;
representation
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Bergseth, A. D. (2008).
'Reversing the Gaze' with Early Native American Visual Imagery
[Undergraduate thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1208967647
APA Style (7th edition)
Bergseth, Amy.
'Reversing the Gaze' with Early Native American Visual Imagery.
2008. Miami University, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1208967647.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Bergseth, Amy. "'Reversing the Gaze' with Early Native American Visual Imagery." Undergraduate thesis, Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1208967647
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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