Crafting the Past: Mission Models and the Curation of California Heritage

dc.contributor.authorKryder-Reid, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Anthropology, School of Liberal Artsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-31T14:40:40Z
dc.date.available2017-01-31T14:40:40Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractSmall-scale representations of the California missions in the form of mission models and miniatures have circulated in public and private display contexts for close to a century. Produced by students, hobbyists, preservationists, and artists, this material culture constructs, in specific and codified ways, an ideal mission materiality. For almost a century the mission models have been consumed through the distinct discursive practices of crafting, collecting, displaying, and buying. The models allow me, therefore, to trace the production of cultural memory in daily life through the materialization of heritage constituted through formal and informal practices, across personal and public spheres, and over multiple generations. In their representation of landscape, labor, and Native Americans, these discursive cultural artifacts contribute to the construction of a highly politicized past that reinforces a romanticized and valorized presentation of colonialism. A postcolonial critique of the models also raises questions regarding the roles of heritage professionals in mediating community-curated history.en_US
dc.eprint.versionAuthor's manuscripten_US
dc.identifier.citationKryder-Reid, E. (2015). Crafting the Past: Mission Models and the Curation of California Heritage. Heritage & Society, 8(1), 60–83. https://doi.org/10.1179/2159032X15Z.00000000038en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/11884
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1179/2159032X15Z.00000000038en_US
dc.relation.journalHeritage & Societyen_US
dc.rightsPublisher Policyen_US
dc.sourceAuthoren_US
dc.subjectcultural memoryen_US
dc.subjectmaterial cultureen_US
dc.subjectlandscapeen_US
dc.titleCrafting the Past: Mission Models and the Curation of California Heritageen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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