Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America

by Kenneth Lincoln

Drawing upon history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interethnic literature, Lincoln covers the traditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies, Euroamericans "playing Indian," feminist Indian humor at home, contemporary painters and playwrights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195068874
• ISBN13: 9780195068870
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"