The Archive of Place
Subtitle: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau (Nature, History, Society)
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Published: June 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780774813761
Subjects: American history; Management of land & natural resources; North American archaeology; History; History - General History; History: World; Canada - General; Historical Geography; General; North American; British Columbia; Chilcotin Plateau; Human ecology; Indians of North America; Material culture
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.