| The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau Contributor(s): Turkel, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774813776 ISBN-13: 9780774813778 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: Weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbias Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past -- and different types of evidence -- to justify their actions. Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Historical Geography - History | Canada - General |
| Dewey: 971.175 |
| Series: Nature History Society |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.92" W x 8.53" (1.17 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Geographic Orientation - British Columbia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Archive of Place weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in a particular location - British Columbia's Chilcotin Plateau. In the mid-1990s, the Chilcotin was at the centre of three territorial conflicts. Opposing groups, in their struggle to control the fate of the region and its resources, invoked different understandings of its past - and different types of evidence - to justify their actions. These controversies serve as case studies, as William Turkel examines how people interpret material traces to reconstruct past events, the conditions under which such interpretation takes place, and the role that this interpretation plays in historical consciousness and social memory. It is a wide-ranging and original study that extends the span of conventional historical research. |
