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Politically Speaking

This volume focuses on the organization of meaning in the verbal culture of politics. Of ten chapters, six examine the rhetoric of a specific speech or event, and four are theoretical discussions of rhetoric ...

Sea Change

Sea Change is an anthropological account of Burra, a small fishing island in Shetland, the northernmost part of the British Isles. Over the centuries the people of Burra have adapted their economic and ...

Power Begins at the Cod End

This book shows how a union leader, beginning with very few cards in his hands, managed to contrive a victory for the trawler fishermen of Newfoundland. The social and economic changes in Newfoundland ...

Violence and Public Anxiety

This book examines perceptions of violent behaviour and compares public opinion with statistics and past events. How do the press and special interest groups shape public opinion and official concern ...

To Work and To Weep

Here is a cross-cultural collection of ethnographic essays (from Brazil, Newfoundland, Portugal, India, Scotland, Malaysia and Peru) that challenge popular images of women in fishing communities. Offering ...

You Never Know What They Might Do

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 ...

What is the Indian "Problem?"

This book addresses the so-called Indian "problem" or "question" which once again is a prominent political concern in Canada. The book critically examines past and present relations between Indians and ...

"Bloody decks and a Bumper Crop"

A folklorist looks at the responses of Newfoundlanders to the international seal hunt protest during the late sixties and seventies.

Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Volume I

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 ...

Terranova

Based on his experience as a "cookee" on a Spanish trawler fishing the Grand Banks, Zulaika focuses on the superordinate place that luck has in ordering the fishermen's conceptual thinking about their ...