A detailed enquiry into the decline of a once-great industry situated on one of the world's richest fishery banks. The impact of post-war international monetary and trade factors, the growing continental ...

This collection contains three theoretical essays and seven ethnographic case studies. The theoretical pieces address the 'state of the art' since the writings in the sixties on factionalism. The argument ...

How do villagers look upon mental illness? How do the 'sick' among them avoid hospitalization in the "mental"? This fieldwork study by a sociologist stresses the necessity of taking cultural factors into ...

The excavation of this 3,000 to 4,000 year old burial complex in northwestern Newfoundland is an important addition to the known sites designated as the Maritime Archaic Tradition of the "Red Paint" peoples. ...

An ethnohistory of white settlement in the Hamilton Inlet area of central Labrador whose non-technical language recommends it to the general reader as well as to scholars interested in life in the North. ...

In a Protestant fishing village in Northern Ireland what determines an individual's behaviour towards his kinsmen is as much his social class as his culture's ancient dictates. Thus the obligations of ...

This is the first major attempt in modern anthropology at studying friendship on a cross-cultural basis. The collection brings together field studies from Ireland, Canada, Africa, and New Guinea (including ...

This book is about the problems faced by able-bodied men who are forced to live off public welfare, or "on the dole. " Based on the author's daily interactions with a hundred unemployed men in one Newfoundland ...

Beyond ecologic, economic and kinship relationships, this is a study of symbolic behaviour–notably verbal communication, attitudes towards 'strangers' and witchcraft practices. This book demonstrates ...

A Norwegian anthropologist gives his version of the 'developing' Newfoundland economy. The analysis focuses on the political restrictions on economic development, and on the shortcomings of decision-making ...