TY - BOOK ID - 77868861 TI - Public Native America PY - 2006 SN - 1280947063 9786610947065 0813539978 9780813539973 0813538645 9780813538648 0813538653 9780813538655 PB - New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press DB - UniCat KW - Indians of North America KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Self-perception KW - Indians in popular culture KW - Powwows KW - Museum exhibits KW - Gambling on Indian reservations KW - Public opinion KW - Indian gaming KW - Indian reservations KW - Display techniques KW - Displays, Museum KW - Museum displays KW - Museums KW - Exhibitions KW - Museum techniques KW - Pow wows KW - Festivals KW - Popular culture KW - Self-concept KW - Self image KW - Self-understanding KW - Perception KW - Self-discrepancy theory KW - Self-evaluation KW - Cross-cultural psychology KW - Ethnic groups KW - Ethnic psychology KW - Folk-psychology KW - Indigenous peoples KW - National psychology KW - Psychological anthropology KW - Psychology, Cross-cultural KW - Psychology, Ethnic KW - Psychology, National KW - Psychology, Racial KW - Race psychology KW - Psychology KW - National characteristics KW - Public opinion. KW - Psychology. KW - Ethnic identity. KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Race identity UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77868861 AB - The Native American casino and gaming industry has attracted unprecedented American public attention to life on reservations. Other tribal public venues, such as museums and powwows, have also gained in popularity among non-Native audiences and become sites of education and performance. In Public Native America, Mary Lawlor explores the process of tribal self-definition that the communities in her study make available to off-reservation audiences. Focusing on architectural and interior designs as well as performance styles, she reveals how a complex and often surprising cultural dynamic is cre ER -