Research Catalog

Title

Storied landscapes : ethno-religious identity and the Canadian Prairies / Frances Swyripa.

Author

Swyripa, Frances, 1951-

Publication

Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2010.

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Description

xi, 296 p. : ill., maps, ports.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in immigration and culture series, 1914-1459 ; 5

Uniform Title

Studies in immigration and culture ; 5.

Subject

• Ethnicity > Prairie Provinces > Religious aspects
• Ethnicity > Prairie Provinces
• Ethnicité > Provinces des Prairies > Aspect religieux
• Ethnicité > Provinces des Prairies
• Immigrants > Prairie Provinces > History
• Immigrants > Provinces des Prairies > Histoire
• Minorities > Prairie Provinces > History
• Minorités > Provinces des prairies > Histoire
• Prairie Provinces > Emigration and immigration
• Prairie Provinces > Social conditions
• Provinces des Prairies > Conditions sociales
• Provinces des Prairies > Émigration et immigration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ethno-religious settlement : the Canadian prairies in context -- Possessing the land : the secular, the sacred, and the dead -- Founding stories and founding fathers : beginnings, place, and belonging -- Region and nation : situating the prairie experience within national narratives -- Outside connections : homelands, diasporas, and the forty-ninth parallel -- Wheat, dragon ships, and Baba : symbols of prairie ethnicity -- Returning to the land : commemoration and preservation of the past -- Pilgrimage : the land as "sacred ground" and gathering point.

ISBN

• 9780887557200 (pbk.)
• 0887557201 (pbk.)
• 9780887551918 (bound)
• 0887551912 (bound)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library