The Secwepeme Museum and History

The Secwepeme Museum and Heritage Park in Kamloops is the first native-owned and operated museum to be developed in the interior of British Columbia. The museum derives its mandate from the Shuswap Declaration of 1982, an agreement signed by the 17 bands of the Shuswap Nation to work in unity, preserve, perpetuate and enhance the Shuswap language, history and culture

We're on a roll - Let's keep it going

The pulse of the CHA is remarkably strong right now. New members have been pouring in, bringing new energy and commitment. Important new projects are unfolding. Our association has been rising to the many challenges facing historians and others in historical and cultural work. It has been an exhilarating time to be President

Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris

This chapter examines attitudes towards the dead body, as exemplified by arrangements for funerals and burials, in Paris between around 1550 and 1670. It seeks to establish, not so much what people said should happen to the bodies of the dead, but what happened in practice - the care, or lack of it, which the living accorded to the corpses of their contemporaries and predecessors - and to use this to further our understanding of the mentality of early modern urban dwellers. It is part of a wider enquiry, to explore the attitudes of the living to the dead in Paris and London, and to consider the ways in which this can illuminate the nature of these two metropolitan societies, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Looking at the treatment of the corpse can also take discussion of the body, and the ways in which it is apprehended and understood, a stage further than the predominant focus on the living; dead bodies were as variably constructed, as liable to objectification (even commodification), as exposed to contest and competition over meaning as living ones. This particular study highlights the issues of control and ownership, among the complexity of reactions to the materiality of bodies, and offers an insight into power relations in a wider social and spatial environment

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