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The past twenty-five years have seen enormous changes in Native America. One of the most profound expressions of change has been within the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. The Nation | "A wonderfully provocative text. . . . This book could easily become an important part of courses in Native American studies, cultural studies, and museum studies." — Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
"De Uriarte clearly describes how one tribe performs its 'Indianness' to millions of visitors every year."— American Indian Culture and Research Journal |
has overcome significant hurdles to establish itself as a potent cultural and economic force highlighted by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and Foxwoods, the largest
casino in the Western Hemisphere. In Casino and Museum, John J. Bodinger de Uriarte sees these two main commercial structures of the reservation as mutually supporting industries
generating both material and symbolic capital. To some degree, both institutions offer Native representations yet create different strategies for attracting and engaging visitors. While
the casino is crucial as an economic generator, the museum has an important role as the space for authentic Mashantucket Pequot images and narratives. The book's focus is on how the
casino and the museum successfully deploy different strategies to take control of the tribe's identity, image, and cultural agency. Photographs in the book provide a view of
Mashantucket, allowing the reader to study the spaces of the book's central arguments. They are a key methodology of the project and offer a non-textual opportunity to navigate the
sites as well as one finely focused way to work through the representation and formation of the Native American photographic subject--the powerful popular imagining of Native Americans.
Casino and Museum presents a unique understanding of the prodigious role that representation plays in the contemporary poetics and politics of Native America. It is essential
reading for scholars of Native American studies, museum studies, cultural studies, and photography.
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May 29th - June 1st, 2013  The conference theme, "Towards a New Social Contract?," will explore inequality in Latin America. In the first decade of the 21st century, income inequality has gone down in a substantial number of Latin American countries. This is the first time that inequality has declined on such a broad scale since we have had reasonably reliable data on income distribution. Beginning in the 1990s educational reforms have expanded the percentage of the population with secondary and tertiary education. The governments of the left that came to power after 2000 implemented a number of other reforms to improve life chances for the underprivileged, such as increases in the minimum wage, social assistance programs, and health care coverage. Are these trends likely to continue, or are they conjunctural and easily subject to reversal once economic growth rates decline? Learn More
June 13th - June 15th, 2013 The NAISA Council invites scholars working in Native American and
Indigenous Studies to submit proposals for: Individual papers, panel sessions, roundtables, or film screenings. All persons working in Native American and Indigenous Studies are invited and encouraged to apply. Proposals are welcome from faculty and students in colleges, universities, and tribal colleges; from community-based scholars and elders; and from professionals working in the field. Learn More
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