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- Title
A Cultural Cartography of the Tr'ondëk-Klondike: Mapping plural Knowledges.
- Authors
NEUFELD, DAVID
- Abstract
Since their first meeting 150 years ago, Yukon Indigenous peoples and Western settler Newcomers have exchanged narratives of meaning. These attempts to engage with the other include a jostling of stories, pageants, and rituals highlighting the values and interests of their culture. Largely place-based, these contact experiences reflect the distinctly different ways peoples understand the world, their place in it and highlight the complexity of cross-cultural encounters. Richard White's concept of a middle ground and Julie Cruikshank's work on Yukon Indigenous narratives both focus on the significance of these encounters. The marks left by these encounters can be charted. The resulting cultural cartography provides a way in which diverse and incommensurable ways of life can be understood and appreciated. The paper applies a cultural cartography to frame the present interest in a world heritage site nomination for the Tr'ondëk-Klondike region of the central Yukon. Mapping these ephemeral contacts makes it possible to better understand the shared history and material culture written on the landscape of the Tr'ondëk-Klondike. Cultural cartography contributes to the negotiation of a respectful and meaningful heritage commemoration built on the mutual interests of all parties.
- Subjects
YUKON; KLONDIKE River Valley (Yukon); CARTOGRAPHY; CROSS-cultural communication; FIRST Nations of Canada; ACCULTURATION; MEANING (Philosophy)
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, 2018, Vol 38, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
0944-7008
- Publication type
Article