Cultural Performance as Strategic Essentialism: Negotiating Indianness in a Western Canadian Rodeo Festival

9 Elizabeth Furniss, In the Spirit of the Pioneers, pp. 174-85, 216-28. ' And in keeping with my theoretical argument, these outcomes cannot be determined by an observer's 'reading' of a ritual-they must be ethnographically demonstrated through tracing the application and consequences of cultural representations in a social context.