Bodmer_Publication

TAB. 18 «BISONTANZ DER MANDAN INDIANER,
vor der Medizinhütte IN MIH-TUTTA HANGKUSCH»
“BISON DANCE OF THE MANDAN INDIANS,
in front of their Medicin Lodge IN MIH-TUTTA HANKUSH”
Here, then, political judgment becomes complicated. This historicization of
Bodmer has attempted to comprehend the achievement of his representations
of the Indians of the Great Plains within their historical context, without denying
those ideological / political entanglements that ultimately led to their use in the
creation of nineteenth and twentieth century stereotypes of Indians. 30 Generally
speaking, this attempt to read Bodmer through Humboldt (both Humboldts
respectively) also shows what is, for example, several times addressed in Edward
W. Said’s Orientalism, but what remains quite abstract in that work on the Near
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