Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Place, Memory, and Historic Sites in Prairie Canada
Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
ISBN: 978-0-88755-932-7
Verlag: University of Manitoba Press
Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research from predominantly government records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national messages that commonly reflect colonial perceptions of the past. Yet many of the places that commemorate Indigenous, fur trade, and settler histories are contested spaces, places such as Batoche, Seven Oaks, and Upper Fort Garry being the most obvious. At these heritage sites, Indigenous views of history confront the conventions of settler colonial pasts and represent the fluid cultural perspectives that should define the shifting ground of heritage space.
Robert Coutts brings his many years of experience as a public historian to this detailed examination of heritage sites across the prairies. He shows how the process of commemoration often reflects social and cultural perspectives that privilege a conventional and conservative national narrative. He also examines how class, gender, and sexuality often remain apart from the heritage discourse. Most notably, Authorized Heritage examines how governments became the mediators of what is heritage and, just as significantly, what is not.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Denkmäler, Mahnmale
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
- Chapter 1 Landscapes of Memory in Prairie Canada
- Chapter 2 Memory Hooks: Commemorating Indigenous Cultural Landscapes
- Chapter 3 National Dreams: Commemorating the Fur Trade in Manitoba
- Chapter 4 “We came. We toiled. God blessed”: Settler Colonialism and Constructing Authenticity
- Chapter 5 Contested Space: Heritage and Indigenous Places of Resistance
- Chapter 6 Heritage Place: The Function of Modernity, Gender, and Sexuality
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: History, Memory and the Heritage Discourse
