essay
Marketing traditions: Cherokee basketry and tourist economies
Selling the Indian : commercializing & appropriating American Indian cultures • Tucson • Published In 2001 • Pages: 212-235
By: Hill, Sarah H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of traditional Cherokee basketry and the commercializing of this product during the twentieth century. Hill compares North Carolina and Oklahoma basketry, and indicates various factors affecting the marketing of these wares . The author provides additional information on the significant role of tourism in the sale of baskets, and on goverment initiatives to stimulate the production and sale of the baskets to the public.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Artifact and archive collections
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- Cultural participation
- Mats and basketry
- Income and demand
- External trade
- Division of labor by gender
- Foreign exchange
- Public welfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1990
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Carolina and Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Sarah H. Hill
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-235)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians