Imagining Difference | Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town

Leslie A. Robertson

ISBN 10: 0774810939 ISBN 13: 9780774810937

Published by University of British Columbia Press, 2005

Language: English

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Imagining Difference | Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town

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University of British Columbia Press

Publication Date

2005

Language

English

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0774810939

ISBN 13

9780774810937

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476 grams

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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.

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

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