The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia / Ian McKay.

Argues that the popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false. This title shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. It exami...

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Main Author: McKay, Ian, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1994.
Series:Carleton library series.
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