Mooring subjects of heritage
Proprioceptive emplacement at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5701027 |
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| Authors | May Chew (York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 679-689 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2016.1184700 |
| OpenAlex | W2356320089 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
This article examines how visitors to Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (HSIBJ) in Fort Macleod, Alberta, are physically and affectively situated within an immersive heritage landscape. A designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, HSIBJ is inextricably tied to regional Blackfoot and settler-colonial histories, as well as the tensions that emerge between the two. HSIBJ’s Interpretive Centre is organised to plunge audiences inside the ‘live’ archaeological scene and an evocative heritage landscape. It does so through technologies, including motion-triggered projections, which locate and secure visitors within official national – and universal – heritage narratives. The central argument of this article is that HSIBJ’s Interpretive Centre beckons subjects of heritage through proprioception, the awareness of the body’s position in and movement through space. Extending beyond the physiological sensation of one’s own body, proprioception also works alongside the two other substantiating buttresses of archaeology and heritage to provide a gravitational ground upon which the visitor is located and their subjectivity confirmed. Proprioceptive grounding emplaces a body within an expanded and ‘ancient’ narratology of nation, and in this way, also becomes the mechanism through which exogenous settlers assuage anxieties about their latecoming status
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage
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Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice
Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage
Uses of Heritage
Carnal Thoughts
A Speculation on Connective Tissue‐activating Peptides in the Psoriasiform Reaction
Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions
The concept of ‘outstanding universal value’ in the World Heritage Convention
Destination Culture
Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology
Public history and the fragments of place
Once upon an Oldman
The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties
Imagining Head-Smashed-In
The Archive and the Repertoire
Haptic geographies
A slow industrial genocide
Nature and Culture
Affect and Emotion
Flesh and stone
The birth of the museum
Performing live
Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions
Objects and Others
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Alternative Archaeologies
World Heritage and mosaic universalism
Neoliberal settler colonialism, Canada and the tar sands
Techniques of the body∗
Western hegemony in archaeological heritage management
| Highly cited | No |
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