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11%OFFLeslie A. Robertson - Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town - 9780774810937 - V9780774810937
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Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town

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Description for Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 20 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: RNU; TVF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.

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 ... Read more

Stories are powerful imaginative resources in the contexts of colonialism, war, immigration, labour strife, natural disaster, treaty-making, and globalization.This study suggests that while criteria may shift, ideas of “race” and “foreignness,” expressions of regionalism, and class and religious identity remain fixed in the social imagination.

The author draws from folklore, media imagery, historical records, and interviews; field notes and verbatim accounts provide readers with a sense of the ethnographic process. While situated historically and socially in Fernie, BC, this work will appeal to those in anthropology, women’s studies, Native studies, and history, as well as to regional readers and anyone interested in life in resource towns in North America.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774810937
SKU
V9780774810937
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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

Reviews for Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town
With its 25-page bibliograhy, most of Imagining Difference won’t pass for popular history, but this work has an intriguing premise and Robertson deserves credit for an original undertaking.
BC Bookworld, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 2005
Robertson is an ethnographer and a specialist in “urban anthropology” with a storytelling talent exceptional among the theory-riddled academics who tend to ... Read more

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