High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty

Jessica Cattelino

Published by Duke University Press 2008

High Stakes

Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty

Jessica Cattelino

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391302

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About this book

Ethnography that looks at how the casinos run by the Florida Seminoles have affected the tribe's ideas about sovereignty and cultural distinctiveness.

Author / Editor information

Jessica R. Cattelino is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

“High Stakes is a work of great ethnographic and theoretical power, written in prose of great clarity. It is also a model of sensitive and thoughtful writing with respect to American Indians, who have long been rightly suspicious of the ethnographic gaze and ethnographic representation. High Stakes shows what ethnography can, indeed must, be and do in the twenty-first century.”—Sherry B. Ortner, author of Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

“High Stakes tracks to the core of contemporary North American settler society today—the economy of value that structures expectation and possibility for indigenous peoples and the state. Here Jessica R. Cattelino examines with great ethnographic care and rigor the expectation that Indians be poor even where they have wealth, that wealth portends a diminishment of culture, and that indigeneity then stand before this process in an unrelenting and unchanging way. With a nuanced, careful, and precise ethnographic eye to and with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, this very important book proves so much otherwise.”—Audra Simpson, Columbia University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Seminole Gaming in the Sunshine State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Casino Roots Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2. Cultural Currencies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
3. Fungibility: The Politics of Casino Money Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Interlude: Mateo Romero’s Indian Gaming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
4. Rebuilding Sovereignty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
5. Sovereign Interdependencies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Conclusion: Betting on the House Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 310
Illustrations
- Other: 36 b&w photos, 1 map

eBook

Published: August 4, 2008
ISBN: 9780822391302