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California mission landscapes : race, memory, and the politics of heritage / Elizabeth Kryder-Reid.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Architecture, landscape, and American culture seriesPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]Description: xv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0816628394
  • 9780816628391
  • 9780816637973
  • 0816637970
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: California mission landscapes.LOC classification:
  • F862 .K79 2016
Contents:
Introduction: missions, memory, and heritage -- Colonial mission landscapes -- Inventing heritage: time binding in the mission landscape -- Cultivating heritage: race, identity, and the politics of the mission landscape -- Consuming heritage: the embodied experience of the California missions -- Conclusion: third spaces and the future of mission memory practices.
Summary: "A history of California mission landscapes from their origins as colonial outposts to their reinvention as heritage sites though the late nineteenth and twentieth century. ... Elizabeth Kryder-Reid argues that landscape design has long recast the mission from sites of colonial oppression to aestheticized and nostalgia-drenched monasteries."--Back cover.
List(s) this item appears in: Garden of Cultural Diversity
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Pacific Northwest Connections Collection SB468.34.C2 K79 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800173460
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-338) and index.

Introduction: missions, memory, and heritage -- Colonial mission landscapes -- Inventing heritage: time binding in the mission landscape -- Cultivating heritage: race, identity, and the politics of the mission landscape -- Consuming heritage: the embodied experience of the California missions -- Conclusion: third spaces and the future of mission memory practices.

"A history of California mission landscapes from their origins as colonial outposts to their reinvention as heritage sites though the late nineteenth and twentieth century. ... Elizabeth Kryder-Reid argues that landscape design has long recast the mission from sites of colonial oppression to aestheticized and nostalgia-drenched monasteries."--Back cover.

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