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Heritage and Its Missions: Contested Meanings and Constructive Appropriations

Heritage and Its Missions: Contested Meanings and Constructive Appropriations

Gnecco, Cristóbal
Dias, Adriana Schmidt
Dartt, Deana

Paperback

Series: Catholic Practice in the Americas

AnthropologyGeneral ChristianityGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 1531509339
ISBN13: 9781531509330
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Explores how heritage discourses and local publics interact at Catholic mission sites in the southwestern United States, northern Mexico, and the Southern Cone

Interdisciplinary in scope and classed under the name critical heritage studies, Heritage and Its Missions makes extensive use of ethnographic perspectives to examine heritage not as a collection of inert things upon which a general historical interest is centered, but as a series of active meanings that have consequences in the social, political, and economic arenas. This approach considers the places of interaction between heritage discourses and local publics as constructed spaces where the very materiality of the social and the political unfolds.

Heritage and Its Missions brings together researchers from several countries interested in the pre-republican Catholic missions in the Americas as heritage. Each essay discusses the past and current heritage meanings applied to a specific mission by national and multicultural states, local Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, international heritage institutions, and scholars. They then address how heritage actors produce knowledge from their positioned perspectives; how dif-ferent actors, collectives, communities, and publics relate to them; how heritage representations are deployed and contested as social facts; and how different conceptions of heritage collide, collaborate, and intersperse to produce the meanings around which heritage struggles unfold.

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