A wilder West : rodeo in Western Canada /
"A controversial sport, rodeo is often seen as emblematic of the West's reputation as a "white man's country." A Wilder West complicates this view, showing how rodeo has been an important contact zone - a chaotic and unpredictable place of encounter that challenged expected...
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
©2011.
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Innehållsförteckning:
- An old-timers' town: western communities, performance, and contact zones
- Truly western in its character: identities, affinities, and intimacies at Western Canadian Rodeo
- A sport, not a carnival act: transforming rodeo from performance to sport
- Heavens no? Let's keep it rodeo? Pro rodeo and the making of the modern cowboy
- Going pro: community rodeo in the era of professionalization
- Where the cowboys are Indians: Indian and reserve rodeo in the Canadian west.