Authorized heritage : place, memory, and historic sites in prairie Canada /

"Authorized Heritage analyses the history of commemoration at heritage sites across western Canada. Using extensive research in Parks Canada records, it argues that heritage narratives are almost always based on national and conventional messages that commonly reflect colonialist visions of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coutts, Robert, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Historic sites > Social aspects > Manitoba.
Historic sites > Social aspects > Saskatchewan.
Memorials > Social aspects > Manitoba.
Memorials > Social aspects > Saskatchewan.
Collective memory > Canada.
Indigenous peoples > Canada > Social conditions.
Lieux historiques > Aspect social > Manitoba.
Lieux historiques > Aspect social > Saskatchewan.
Mémoire collective > Canada.
Peuples autochtones > Canada > Conditions sociales.
Collective memory
Historic sites > Social aspects
Indigenous peoples > Social conditions
Memorials > Social aspects
Race relations
Canada > Race relations.
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
History
Historic sites > Social aspects
Historiography
Indigenous peoples > Social conditions
Memorials > Social aspects
Post-Confederation (1867-)
Social history
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Landscapes of Memory in Prairie Canada
  • Memory Hooks: Commemorating Indigenous Cultural Landscapes
  • National Dreams: Commemorating the Fur Trade in Manitoba
  • "We Came. We Toiled. God Blessed": Settler Colonialism and Constructing Authenticity
  • Contested Space: Commemorating Indigenous Places of Resistance
  • Heritage Place: The Function of Modernity, Gender, and Sexuality
  • History, Memory, and the Heritage Discourse.

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