Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town - Couverture souple

Robertson, Leslie A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774810939 ISBN 13 : 9780774810937

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2005

Synopsis

Imagining Difference is an ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC - a coal-mining town transforming into an international ski resort. Focusing on diverse experiences of people from the European diaspora, Robertson analyzes expressions of difference from the multiple locations of age, ethnicity, gender, class, and religion. Her starting point is a popular local legend about an indigenous curse cast on the valley and its residents in the nineteenth century. Successive interpretations of the story reveal a complicated landscape of memory and silence, mapping out official and contested histories, social and scientific theories as well as the edicts of political discourse. Cursing becomes a metaphor for discursive power resonating in political, popular, and cultural contexts, transmitting ideas of difference across generations and geographies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Leslie A. Robertson teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774810939
• ISBN 13: 9780774810937
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
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