Imagining difference : legend, curse and spectacle in a Canadian mining town / Leslie A. Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Leslie, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--British Columbia--Fernie.

Ethnology.

Indians of North America--British Columbia--Fernie--Folklore.

Indians of North America.

Legends--British Columbia--Fernie.

Legends.

Blessing and cursing.

Group identity.

Differentiation (Sociology).

Fernie (B.C.)--Social conditions.

Fernie (B.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface: Knowing Who Your Neighbours Are; Introduction: Ideas Make Acts Possible; Part One Politics of Cursing; 1 Conversations among Europeans and Other Acts of Possession; 2 Látkép - Ansicht - View - ВИД : Constructing the "Foreign"; 3 " The Story As I Know It"; Part Two Imagining Difference; 4 A Moment of Silence; 5 Getting Rid of the Story; 6 Development, Discovery, and Disguise; 7 One Step Beyond; Epilogue: Waiting; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-292) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7748-5128-7

OCLC:

923441486