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Author: Elizabeth Kryder-Reid
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.998kg
ISBN: 9780816628391
ISBN 10: 0816628394
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 30 November 2016
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
California's Spanish-Mexican missions are among the least known of America's significant historic sites. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid's pioneering study of the missions gardens uncovers their roles as sites of forced labor, romantic nationalism, racial formation, indigenous experience, and religious devotion. Her eye-opening account illuminates the tangled origins and meanings of these gardens, respecting the complexity that makes them so fascinating.-Dell Upton, author of Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic This book must be read to understand the cultural memory presented in the landscape of the California missions. Rather than true to the missions actual look and to the history of land use, the gardens create an imagined past and an aestheticized space. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid examines the creation of the celebratory narrative the missions acquired through their landscapes. Her exemplary study makes it possible to also envision them as de-colonial sites. -Lisbeth Haas, author of Saints and Citizens: Indigenous History of Colonial Missions and Mexican California
California s Spanish-Mexican missions are among the least known of America s significant historic sites. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid s pioneering study of the missions gardens uncovers their roles as sites of forced labor, romantic nationalism, racial formation, indigenous experience, and religious devotion. Her eye-opening account illuminates the tangled origins and meanings of these gardens, respecting the complexity that makes them so fascinating. Dell Upton, author of <i>Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic</i></p> This book must be read to understand the cultural memory presented in the landscape of the California missions. Rather than true to the missions actual look and to the history of land use, the gardens create an imagined past and an aestheticized space. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid examines the creation of the celebratory narrative the missions acquired through their landscapes. Her exemplary study makes it possible to also envision them as de-colonial sites. Lisbeth Haas, author of <i>Saints and Citizens: Indigenous History of Colonial Missions and Mexican California</i></p>
Author Information
Elizabeth Kryder-Reid is professor of anthropology and museum studies and director of the Cultural Heritage Research Center in the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts (IUPUI) and former director of the IUPUI Museum Studies Program.
