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Drawing on sociology, social history, ethnic studies, performance studies, geography and history, this text provides a discussion of the ways in which landscape, heritage and the search for authenticity create an identity in a unique ethnic American community.

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A remarkable achievement. By focusing on New Glarus, Steven Hoelscher gives us not only one Wisconsin town in all its self-inventing, self-dramatizing power but also suggests how aspiring towns and cities all over the world may now have to theatricalize their past to reach the twin goals of group pride and prosperity. --Yi-Fu Tuan, J. K. Wright and Vilas Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison Hoelscher's work brings together rich and diverse data that permit us to see the changing actors, motivations, and representations in New Glarus' complex history of fashioning its ethnic heritage. Heritage on Stage is at once a case study and a far more broadly applicable reading of the confluence of place, politics, and the market in ethnic histories. --Regina Bendix, Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania and author of In Search of Authenticity: The Formation of Folklore Studies In this ambitious and interdisciplinary study, Steven Hoelscher shows how place and memory come together for the performance of ethnic identity. The book explores issues about irony and authenticity through participant observation and critical reflection. This is a tour de force which will excite the fields of ethnic studies and the new cultural geography alike. --Gerry Kearns, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

In this ambitious and interdisciplinary study, Steven Hoelscher shows how place and memory come together for the performance of ethnic identity. The book explores issues about irony and authenticity through participant observation and critical reflection. This is a tour de force which will excite the fields of ethnic studies and the new cultural geography alike. --Gerry Kearns, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge<br>

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Steven D. Hoelscher is assistant professor of American studies and geography at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an author of the ""Cultural Map of Wisconsin"" and a contributor to ""Wisconsin Land and Life,"" both published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

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