Heritage and Its Missions

Contested Meanings and Constructive Appropriations

af Cristóbal Gnecco

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 make 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,... (Læs mere)