Casino and museum; representing Mashantucket Pequot identity.9780816525454 Casino and museum; representing Mashantucket Pequot identity. Bodinger de Uriarte, John J. U. of Arizona Press 2007 241 pages $50.00 Hardcover E99 Foxwoods Resort Casino Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel-casino in Ledyard, Connecticut. It is the largest casino in the world, as measured by floor space for gaming, with 340,000 sq ft (31,587 m²) [1]. The entire resort comprises 4,700,000 sq ft (440,000 m²) of space. and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center are both operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and are both places that put forth public representations of Native American and Mashantucket Pequot identities, primarily for a non-Native American audience. Uriarte (sociology and anthropology anthropology, classification and analysis of humans and their society, descriptively, culturally, historically, and physically. Its unique contribution to studying the bonds of human social relations has been the distinctive concept of culture. , Susquehanna U.) offers a comparative, hermeneutic her·me·neu·tic also her·me·neu·ti·cal adj. Interpretive; explanatory. [Greek herm examination of these two spaces. He focuses on relationships between referential, named identity and identity as sensory experience at the casino and the museum. He also examines the self-construction of identity in opposition of hegemonic he·gem·o·ny n. pl. he·gem·o·nies The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others. [Greek h discourses of Indian-ness. A further area of exploration is on the relationship between public representational rep·re·sen·ta·tion·al adj. Of or relating to representation, especially to realistic graphic representation. rep Pequot identity and the construction of community as simultaneously inclusive and exclusive. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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