Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0774810939
ISBN 13
9780774810937
Category
380-399 Commerce, Customs & Folklore
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
348
Subject
Ethnology -- British Columbia -- Fernie. Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Fernie -- Folklore. Legends -- British Columbia -- Fernie.
Abstract
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.
Description
Genre/Form: Folklore
Electronic books
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Computer File, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Leslie Robertson
ISBN: 0774810920 9780774810920 9780774810937 0774810939
OCLC Number: 56921334
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xlv, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface : knowing who your neighbors are --
Introduction : ideas make acts possible --
1. Conversations among Europeans and other acts of possession --
2. Latkep, Ansicht, View, [VID] : constructing the "foreign" --
3. "The story as I know it" --
4. A movement of silence --
5. Getting rid of the story --
6. Development, discovery, and disguise --
7. One step beyond --
Epilogue : waiting.
Series Title: Canadian electronic library., Books collection.
Responsibility: Leslie A. Robertson.
Electronic books
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Computer File, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Leslie Robertson
ISBN: 0774810920 9780774810920 9780774810937 0774810939
OCLC Number: 56921334
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xlv, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface : knowing who your neighbors are --
Introduction : ideas make acts possible --
1. Conversations among Europeans and other acts of possession --
2. Latkep, Ansicht, View, [VID] : constructing the "foreign" --
3. "The story as I know it" --
4. A movement of silence --
5. Getting rid of the story --
6. Development, discovery, and disguise --
7. One step beyond --
Epilogue : waiting.
Series Title: Canadian electronic library., Books collection.
Responsibility: Leslie A. Robertson.
Number of Copies
1
