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1 online resource |
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Introduction. Traditions and Practices: From Colonial and Area to Cultural or Societal Studies -- I. Framing Research on Canada: Burdens and Achievements of the Past -- The Atlantic World: Creating Societies in Imperial Hinterlands -- Canada's Peoples: Inclusions & Exclusions -- Self-Constructions: From Regional Consciousnesses to National Billboards -- II. From Privileged Discourses to Research on Social Spaces. Privileged Discourses up to 1920: Scholarship in the Making -- Substantial Research: The Social Spaces of the Geological Survey of Canada -- Learning and Society: Social Responsibility, Educational Institutions, Elite Formation -- III. The Study of Canada: The Social Sciences, the Arts, New Media, 1920s-1950s. Data-Based Studies of Society: Political Economy, History, Sociology -- Discourse-Based Reflections about Society: Where Were the Humanities? -- IV. The Third Phase: Multiple Discourses about Interlinked Societies. Decolonization: The Changes of the 1960s -- Visions and Borderlines: Canadian Studies since the 1960s -- Views from the Outside: The Surge of International Canadian Studies -- Agency in a Multicultural Society: Interdisciplinary Research Achievements -- V. Perspectives. From Interest-Driven National Discourse to Transcultural Societal Studies -- Interviews with the Author |
| Summary |
"To Know Our Many Selves profiles the history of Canadian Studies, which began as early as the 1840s with the Study of Canada. Professor Dirk Hoerder discusses this comprehensive examination of culture by highlighting its unique interdisciplinary approach, which included both sociological and political angles. Years later, as the study of other ethnicities was added to the cultural story of Canada, a solid foundation was formed for the nation's master narrative. Against this background, To Know Our Many Selves focuses on why Canadian Studies may be used as a sound model for the study of other societies in a frame of Transcultural Societal Studies."--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
Originally published in: Beiträge zur Kanadistik, Vol. 13, by Wissner-Verlag, Augsburg, 2005 |
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Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Civilization -- Study and teaching
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Education
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Regions & Countries - Americas.
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Canada.
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History & Archaeology.
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Canada -- Civilization -- Study and teaching -- History
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Canada -- Study and teaching -- History
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781897425732 |
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1897425732 |
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