Performing the Pilgrims: A Study of Ethnohistorical Role-Playing at Plimoth Plan

Description: Performing the Pilgrims by Stephen Eddy Snow, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett An inquiry into how portrayals of the Pilgrims evolved from glorification to more accurate interpretations of history through performance FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A scholarly inquiry into how portrayals of the Pilgrims evolved from glorification to more accurate reconstruction of history through performance The various ways in which the Pilgrims have been represented over the past three hundred years reflect important changes in American culture. This study of a phenomenon at "Plimoth Plantation" reveals a pattern created by progressive cultural forces in the United States to establish historical accuracy. It traces the transformation in the styles of portraying the cultural history of one of Americas earliest immigrant groups, the Pilgrims of Plymouth, Massachusetts. In the nineteenth century the Pilgrim story was romanticized in poetry and paintings. The purpose of such portrayals was glorification, not historical accuracy. After the fourth Thursday of every November was designated by President Lincoln as Thanksgiving Day, the Pilgrim image became ubiquitous in American popular culture. Those simple, hardworking settlers of one of Americas first towns began to assume mythic proportions.This study of how the Pilgrims have been represented in American cultural life mainly focuses on the development of the performances in the Living Museum of Seventeenth Century Plymouth at Plimoth Plantation.After World War II a plan was devised to replicated the "First Street" of Plymouth. By the late 1950s Pilgrim houses were reconstructed, and mannequins depicted scenes of Pilgrim life. Docents, dressed in somewhat inauthentic period garb, described the historical significance of the tableaux. The cultural revolution of the 1960s brought also a revolution in the style of representing the Pilgrims. In an attempt to define the real Pilgrims, the idea of "sainted ancestors" was eradicated. James Deetz, an anthropologist from Harvard, established a new approach to ethnohistorical research. In portraying the Pilgrims in this era, reenactors made no attempt to glorify but instead to give earnest assessment of all ethnographic data available and to re-create an authentic Pilgrim. Deetz and his colleagues established a "living museum" in which history was no longer described and discussed, but, rather, reenacted.This book documents and analyzes the momentous shift in the style of representing the history at Plimoth Plantation. It closely examines the emergence of the first-person, role-playing re-creation that is based upon performing ethnography.An important work in the field of performance studies, it explores postmodern cultural forces at work in the late twentieth century. Stephen Snow, Ph.D., RDT-BCT, is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Creative Arts Therapies at Concordia University in Montreal. Most recently, he completed a three-year project (2005-2008) in Performance Ethnography with adults with developmental disabilities at Concordias Centre for the Arts in Human Development, of which he is a Co-Founder. Flap An inquiry into how portrayals of the Pilgrims evolved from glorification to more accurate interpretations of history through performance Long Description Traces how the representation of pilgrim settlers to North America has evolved over the past hundred years at the Living Museum of Seventeenth-Century Plymouth, in the town of Plimoth Plantation. Beginning with simple glorification of their ancestors, people acting out the parts began more realistic portrayals, particularly after the cultural revolution of the 1960s. Promotional "Headline" An inquiry into how portrayals of the Pilgrims evolved from glorification to more accurate interpretations of history through performance Details ISBN1604731818 Short Title PERFORMING THE PILGRIMS Publisher University Press of Mississippi Series Peformance Studies Language English ISBN-10 1604731818 ISBN-13 9781604731811 Media Book Format Paperback Pages 241 Subtitle A Study of Ethnohistorical Role-Playing at Plimoth Plantation Illustrations black & white illustrations DEWEY 974.482 Imprint University Press of Mississippi Place of Publication Jackson Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 1993-07-01 NZ Release Date 1993-07-01 UK Release Date 2008-07-31 Author Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Year 2008 Publication Date 2008-07-31 Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2008-07-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:101675754;

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