Sites of Power and the Power of Sight: Vision in the California Mission Landscapes

dc.contributor.authorKryder-Reid, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-17T21:07:32Z
dc.date.available2018-01-17T21:07:32Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThe relationships of sight and power in the landscapes in California missions are explored in this study of three periods of mission history – the sites’ origins as the locus of colonial encounters between Spanish Franciscans and the Indigenous peoples of California, their later re- invention as public sites with “California mission gardens,” and contemporary tourist destinations. While seemingly disparate settings, this paper argues that the imposition of western power on Native peoples and the creation of romanticized oases in tourist destinations are parallel in a number of respects, particularly in the control of vision. The paper also explores diverse perspectives on this view of the land by examining indigenous ideologies of landscape and local expressions of meaning within garden design.en_US
dc.identifier.citationElizabeth Kryder-Reid, “Sites of Power and the Power of Sight: Vision in the California Mission Landscapes” Chapter in Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision, edited by Diane Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles, pp.181-212. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/15014
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Pressen_US
dc.subjectLandscape historyen_US
dc.subjectVisionen_US
dc.subjectCalifornia missionen_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.subjectPublic historyen_US
dc.subjectTourismen_US
dc.titleSites of Power and the Power of Sight: Vision in the California Mission Landscapesen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
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