The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia /

Argues that the popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false. This title shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. It exami...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McKay, Ian, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1994.
Colección:Carleton library series.
Temas:
Tourism > Social aspects > Nova Scotia.
Folklorists > Nova Scotia.
Tourisme > Aspect social > Nouvelle-Écosse.
Folkloristes > Nouvelle-Écosse.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Folklore > Social aspects
Folklorists
Manners and customs
Tourism > Social aspects
Folklorismus
Culturele identiteit.
Volkscultuur.
Mythevorming.
Nova Scotia > Folklore > Social aspects.
Nova Scotia > Social life and customs.
Nova Scotia
Nouvelle-Écosse > Folklore > Aspect social.
Nouvelle-Écosse > Moeurs et coutumes.
Culture
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: A Postcard from the "Shore of Songs"
  • The Idea of the Folk
  • Helen Creighton and the Rise of Folklore
  • Mary Black and the Invention of Handicrafts
  • "O, So True & Real Like the Sea & the Rocks": The Folk and the Pursuit of the Simple Life
  • The Folk under Conditions of Postmodernity.

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