Canadians and their pasts / by the Pasts Collective (Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen, Jocelyn Létourneau, Delphin Muise, David Northrup, and Peter Seixas)

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pasts Collective (Project), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Canada.

Memory--Social aspects--Canada.

History--Social aspects--Canada.

Public history--Canada.

Interviews--Canada.

Interviews.

Public history.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Collective memory.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xii, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.

Summary:

Throughout our lives the past is with us, from the most trivial of experiences to the most profound. Its legacies include our DNA and the scars on our bodies, the cultural traditions that bind our families and communities, and the laws that govern the public sphere. We are reminded of the past in street names and license plates; we see images from the past in museum halls and movie theatres; and we hear voices of tire past in today's arguments over rights reclaimed and wrongs to be redressed. In recognizing the presence of the past in our daily lives, William Faulkner said it well: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Book jacket.

Contents:

1 History in Public 11

2 Everybody's Doing It 29

3 The Problem of Trust 48

4 Family History in a Globalizing World 67

5 Collective Remembering in Three Canadian Communities 84

6 Places and Pasts 105

7 Immigration and Historical Memory 120

8 The Presence of the Past in International Perspective 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781442647268

1442647264

9781442615397

1442615397

OCLC:

862544736