The archive of place : unearthing the pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau / William J. Turkel ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turkel, William J. (William Joseph), 1967-

Series:

Nature, history, society.

Nature, history, society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--British Columbia--Chilcotin Plateau--History.

Indians of North America.

Human ecology--British Columbia--Chilcotin Plateau--History.

Human ecology.

Material culture--British Columbia--Chilcotin Plateau.

Material culture.

Human ecology--British Columbia--History--Case studies.

Ethnohistory--British Columbia--Case studies.

Ethnohistory.

Chilcotin Indians--Wars--British Columbia.

Chilcotin Indians.

Chilcotin Plateau (B.C.)--Race relations--History.

Chilcotin Plateau (B.C.).

Chilcotin Plateau (B.C.)--Historiography.

Chilcotin Plateau (B.C.)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Foreword: Putting Things in Their Place; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART 1: DEEP TIME IN THE PRESENT; 1 Fish Lake; 2 Prosperity Gold; PART 2: THE HORIZON OF EXPERIENCE; 3 Mackenzie; 4 Grease Trails; PART 3: SHADOWED GROUND; 5 Converging towards "Banshee"; 6 Chilcotin War; Afterword; APPENDICES; A: Glacial Time; B: Geological Time; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; X; Notes; Bibliography; Toponymic Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Limited edition of 400 copies.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-309) and index.

ISBN:

1-322-66838-8

1-282-59367-6

9786612593673

0-7748-5596-7

OCLC:

923445296