Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Volume I

By (author): Pam Hall

From boat-building to berries, from knitting socks to mending nets, Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge vividly presents the rich, place-based knowings and doings of more than one hundred knowledge-holders from rural Newfoundland. Renowned artist Pam Hall perfectly marries her singular artistic vision and her exhaustive community-based research in a stunning celebration and preservation of rural knowledge. These images and texts come together to reveal and revalue the local in a time when global monoculture seems overwhelming.

AUTHOR

Pam Hall

Pam Hall is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally and is represented in many corporate, private, and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada. Her artistic practice includes installation, drawing, object-making, photography, film, writing, and community-engaged collaboration and performance; it has explored the fisheries, the body, female labour, placemaking, the nature of knowledge, and notions of the “local.” Hall was the first artist-in-residence in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University and was their inaugural Public Engagement Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2013, she received an Interdisciplinary PhD from Memorial University.

Reviews

“The work is informative, illuminating, testimonial and preservative. This encyclopedia is as one-of-a-kind as the knowledge it holds between its blue covers.”
– The Telegram

“…a stunning book honouring the people of rural Newfoundland and their wide-ranging expertise.”

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Details

Dimensions:

208 Pages
9.75in * 13.25in *
1.5kg

Published:

May 31, 2017

City of Publication:

St. John’s

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Breakwater Books Ltd.

ISBN:

9781550816747

Book Subjects:

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Language:

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