California Mission Landscapes: Race, memory, and the politics of heritage by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid (review)

In doing so, the chapter demonstrates how the spatial arrangement of Spanish colonial missions were specifically designed to enculturate California's diverse Native peoples through daily practices of prayer, labor and social relationships. In addition to architectural style, Kryder-Reid shows h...

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Published in:Journal of colonialism & colonial history 2017-07, Vol.18 (2)
Main Author: Panich, Lee M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colonialism
Cultural heritage
Gardens & gardening
Native peoples
Politics
Religious missions
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Summary:In doing so, the chapter demonstrates how the spatial arrangement of Spanish colonial missions were specifically designed to enculturate California's diverse Native peoples through daily practices of prayer, labor and social relationships. In addition to architectural style, Kryder-Reid shows how the newly invented mission gardens influenced more subtle forms of landscape design across a rapidly growing California that was climatically well-suited to Mediterranean inspiration. [...]more than simply charting the growth of an aesthetic, this chapter considers a wide range of evidence to show how such representations contributed to the logic of American settler colonialism: through diverse media, the image of the cloistered mission garden erased Native people and reinforced the idea that Europeans tamed the wilderness of California.
ISSN:1532-5768
1532-5768
DOI:10.1353/cch.2017.0031