This chapter examines a key component of the tourist experience, that of experiencing cultural difference and observing as an outsider. Lantz questions where Indigenous and First Nation people fit in the experiences that Disney creates for its visitors. She identifies four distinct ways in which the Native Body appears in Walt Disney World, each of which expresses a physical narrative of First Nation peoples in the larger Disney narrative of constructed cultural tourism/consumerism: the Distant Body, the Animated Body, the Absent Body, and the Live Body. This taxonomy of the Indigenous American Body in the parks revolves around absence and proximity, in that all four categories entail an inherent lack of closeness that falls on a spectrum. The Motionless Body is the most distant from visitor interaction, and the Live Body is the closest. Through the level of distance and temporality (the length of time guests spend with representations of the Native Body), Disney crafts a staged indexical absence of Indigenous and First Nation peoples.

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Some of Our Closest, Unnamed Friends: First Nation Culture and Indexical Absence at Walt Disney World

  • Victoria Pettersen Lantz

摘要

This chapter examines a key component of the tourist experience, that of experiencing cultural difference and observing as an outsider. Lantz questions where Indigenous and First Nation people fit in the experiences that Disney creates for its visitors. She identifies four distinct ways in which the Native Body appears in Walt Disney World, each of which expresses a physical narrative of First Nation peoples in the larger Disney narrative of constructed cultural tourism/consumerism: the Distant Body, the Animated Body, the Absent Body, and the Live Body. This taxonomy of the Indigenous American Body in the parks revolves around absence and proximity, in that all four categories entail an inherent lack of closeness that falls on a spectrum. The Motionless Body is the most distant from visitor interaction, and the Live Body is the closest. Through the level of distance and temporality (the length of time guests spend with representations of the Native Body), Disney crafts a staged indexical absence of Indigenous and First Nation peoples.