Authentic culture: the Inkameep plays as Canadian Indian folk drama

dc.contributor.authorKorpan, Cynthia Joanne
dc.contributor.supervisorWalsh, Andrea N.
dc.date.accessioned2009-09-16T21:21:31Z
dc.date.available2009-09-16T21:21:31Z
dc.date.copyright2009en
dc.date.issued2009-09-16T21:21:31Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en
dc.description.abstractDuring the early decades of the 20th century, a public and governmental concentration on authentic Canadian culture included the languages and cultural practices of Indigenous peoples. The position of Indigenous peoples as ‘original’ to the land was conflated as evidence that their cultures were authentic, and as such, uniquely ‘Canadian’. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, a small group of children from the Osoyoos Indian Band along with their Irish immigrant teacher produced a series of short dramatic plays based on traditional Okanagan stories. This thesis examines how the production, circulation, and consumption of these Okanagan-based plays by children came to be seen as a manifestation of early Canadian drama that was arguably a part of the foundation of an emerging national identity.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/1756
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben
dc.subjectFolk dramaen
dc.subjectIndians of North America Dramaen
dc.subjectauthenticityen
dc.subjectauthentic cultureen
dc.subjectCanadian cultureen
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Anthropologyen
dc.titleAuthentic culture: the Inkameep plays as Canadian Indian folk dramaen
dc.typeThesisen

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Authentic Culture The Inkameep Plays as Canadian Indian Folk Drama.pdf
Size:
6.44 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.83 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description: