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The Centennial Cure : Commemoration, Identity, and Cultural Capital in Nova Scotia During Canada's 1967 Centennial Celebrations
\"This book examines the intersection of state policy, cultural development, and commemoration during Canada's 1967 centennial celebrations. It explores four initiatives that were undertaken in Nova Scotia to mark this anniversary, and demonstrates one province's response to Lamontagne's appeal to stem Canada's cultural poverty. These initiaties also reflected those larger social, cultural, economic, and political transformations that took place in postwar Nova Scotia. Further they help us understand the province's experience within the broader context of the development of modern Canadian cultural and social history.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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What We Know, What We Wish
Cities, states, and nations are grappling with how best to commemorate historical events and anniversaries in ways that are fair, accurate, and open public dialogue about the often contested past. This volume springs from varied approaches to the historical commemoration of Maine's state bicentennial in 2020 that involved academics, independent scholars, local and statewide cultural organizations, sovereign Wabanaki nations, and the state itself in the form of the Maine State Bicentennial Commission. While wide-ranging in their goals and values, all sought to take advantage of opportunities for collaboration to contribute to a dynamic and multi-faceted practice of public history. These new essays use Maine's bicentennial as a focal point to put public history theory into action. Its diverse contributors share stories about the past that move beyond celebration to reflect crucial ways that the past shapes our understanding of the present and our aspirations for the future. This volume's core argument is that academics need to collaborate more fully with independent scholars, history-based cultural institutions, and the general public in order for public history to thrive and to improve the quality of civic life. What We Know, What We Wish does this through wide ranging essays that discuss the long statehood era in Maine from the 1770s to 1820s as well as its legacies in the state centennial commemoration of 1920 and museum exhibits from the 2020 bicentennial. The occupational and cultural diversity of the collection's contributors together with the content of their essays offer a model for how to put public history principles into practice to foreground meaningful historical reflection that is urgently needed in divided communities around the world. Contributors include the volume editors, as well as Maulian Bryant, Osihkiyol (Zeke) Crofton-Macdonald, Charles H. Lagerbom, Ryan LaRochelle, Stuart Kestenbaum, Michael McVaugh, Kevin D. Murphy, Micah A. Pawling, Jessica Skwire Routhier, Donald Soctomah, Laura Fecych Sprague, Alan Taylor, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.
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Canada's 150th birthday
\"Celebrating the country's 150th birthday in 2017, it's time to celebrate Canada! This timely title explores the exciting events and celebrations that are taking place in honor of Canada's sesquicentennial year. From the traveling SESQUI festival to special community projects everywhere, Canada's 150th Birthday offers an exciting opportunity to discover how Canadians will be celebrating the country's history, people, and cultures. Children will be inspired by the engaging activities that encourage students to get involved in coming up with their own ideas to wish Canada a happy birthday\"--Provided by publisher.
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El indigenismo del PAN y el festejo del bicentenario del Estado Mexicano
El año 2010, enmarcado por los festejos de la Independencia mexicana a cargo del sexenio panista, presentó el aliciente reflexivo acerca de la tensión política y social que existe entre el Estado-nación y la diversidad étnica. De modo que los ejes punzantes tienen que ver con la continuidad narrativa de una relación de dominación que se perpetúa y celebra a sí misma. En ese sentido, cobra relevancia el análisis y la práctica respecto de la multiculturalidad que aposta sus coordenadas \"desde abajo\" frente a la gramática \"desde arriba\".
Esta obra trae nuevamente a la discusión el denominado \"colonialismo interno\", que en el discurso mismo desecha la posibilidad del reconocimiento a los grupos indígenas, los cuales comúnmente son usados como fórmulas arqueológicas del pasado. Bajo esas directrices, la alternativa apuesta a que, frente a todo colonialismo, debiera emerger alguna propuesta emancipadora que enfrentara al entramado hegemónico, a fin de postular la construcción de un Estado incluyente y respetuoso de la diversidad. [Texto de la editorial]
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Founding Fathers
>Based largely upon the archival documents left behind by the lay and ecclesiastical leaders who organized the celebrations of Champlain and Laval, Ronald Rudin's study describes the complicated process of staging these spectacles.
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A Late Encounter with the Civil War
InA Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When significant anniversaries arrive in the histories of groups such as families, businesses, or nations, their members set aside time to formally remember their shared past. This phenomenon-this social or collective memory-reveals as much about a group's sense of place in the present as it does about the events of the past. So it is with the Civil War.As a nation, we have formally remembered two Civil War anniversaries, the 50th and 100th. We are now in the complicated process of remembering the war for a third time. Kreyling reminds us that we were a different \"we\" for each of the earlier commemorations, and that \"we\" are certainly different now, and not only because the president in office for the 150th anniversary represents a member of the race for whose emancipation from slavery the war was waged.These essays explore the conscious and unconscious mechanisms by which each era has staged, written, and thought about the meaning of the Civil War. Kreyling engages the not-quite-conscious agendas at work in the rituals of remembering through fiction, film, graphic novels, and other forms of expression. Each cultural example wrestles with the current burden of remembering: What are we attempting to do with a memory that, to many, seems irrelevant or so far in the past as to be almost irretrievable?
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Shaping Sacred: Rituals, Theatre and the Generation of Sacred Spaces for the Centenary Celebration of Singapore Hin Ann Thain Hiaw Keng
Singapore Hin Ann Thain Hiaw Keng held its centenary celebration in October 2025. As this event utilized pre-existing or temporary venues, it offers a valuable case for exploring how ritual and theatre contribute to the generation of sacred space. Through the observation of Taoist rituals, puppet theatre, and Puxian opera featured in this event, and by drawing on Henri Lefebvre’s spatial triad, this paper argues that rituals and theatre do not merely occur in pre-existing sacred spaces. Instead, by multiple practices, including spatial planning and the implementation of ritual and theatrical techniques, they transform residences, commercial premises, and public spaces that originally possess secular attributes into spaces that can be experienced and recognized as sacred.
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