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Cows Don't Know It's Sunday
Agricultural Life in St. John's
Häftad, 2002
374 kr
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Before 1950, the greatest number of Newfoundland farmers lived in the St. John's area. They and the townsfolk were interdependent, with the farmers providing meat, poultry, garden and dairy products to the city, while St. John's served as a ready market and a source of cash income. Although many …
Listen While I Tell You
A Story of the Jews of St. John's, Newfoundland
Av Alison Kahn
Inbunden, 1987
338 kr
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Of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants who left Eastern Europe between the 1880s and the early 1920s, a handful settled in Newfoundland. These Yiddish-speaking, Eastern European Jews lived alongside English Protestants and Irish Catholics. This book brings to life the moving story of the …
Talking Violence
An Anthropological Interpretation of Conversation in the City
Häftad, 1987
275 kr
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Talking Violence is a conversational journey around St. John's, reconstructing the repeated discussions about violence heard in bars, cars, courts-of-law, halfway houses, hospitals and the university. Rapport offers an interpretation of these conversations; arguing that language should not be …
Public Nuisance
A History of the Mummers Troupe
Häftad, 1988
290 kr
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This critical and irreverent history of the Mummers Troupe demands the attention of theatre enthusiasts everywhere. With wit and polemic, Brookes, the Troupe's director who has experience with 'activist' theatre in Cuba, Central America and the United States, delivers a broadside to establishment …
Language & Poverty
The Persistence of Scottish Gaelic in Eastern Canada
Häftad, 1988
282 kr
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Gilbert Foster looks at the cultural survival of minority populations and stresses the importance of maintaining a tradition of literacy. Focussing on the influence of Scottish Gaelic in Eastern Canada.
Saying Isn't Believing
Conversation, Narrative and the Discourse of Belief in a French Newfoundland Community
Häftad, 1990
328 kr
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This study focuses on the supernatural belief tradition of a French Newfoundland community. Using a combination of descriptive and analytic techniques from the fields of folklore, linguistic anthropology and discourse analysis, Butler explores the community's use of folklore in everyday social …
Northern Route
An Ethnography of Refugee Experiences
Av Lisa Gilad
Häftad, 1990
297 kr
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This book explores the refugee experience of people from El Salvador, Iran, Vietnam, Cuba, Czechoslovakia and Poland. The scope is local (St. John's), national (Canada), and international, thus providing a broad context in which to comprehend the process of becoming a refugee, seeking asylum, …
Voices from Offshore
Narratives of Risk and Danger in the Nova Scotian Deep-Sea Fishery
Häftad, 1994
338 kr
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Every year more men are maimed and killed while deep-sea fishing than in any other industry in Canada. Yet, until recently, these casualties were largely ignored by government and labour. In interviews with fishers and their families, scallopers, engineers, fish plant owners, and others whose …
Predictions Under Uncertainty
Fish Assemblages and Food Webs on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
Häftad, 1993
338 kr
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Gomes, a biologist, draws on a study of commercial fish assemblages on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to illustrate how uncertainty about the structure of ecological models confounds attempts to predict community dynamics over time; concluding that new adaptive management strategies may be needed …
Dangling Lines
The Fisheries Crisis and the Future of Coastal Communities: the Norwegian Experience
Häftad, 1993
338 kr
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Dangling Lines asks: How should the fishery be managed so that both fish stocks and fishing communities survive? What is worth preserving and what should be changed in traditional practices and values? What is a sensible public policy for coastal communities and what problems should the industry …
Enclosing the Commons
Individual Transferable Quotas in the Nova Scotia Fishery
Av Richard Apostle, Bonnie McCay m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
328 kr
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In 1991 the Atlantic groundfish fishery in Nova Scotia and southern New Brunswick experienced diminishing resources and overcapacity in the inshore mobile-gear fleet. The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans instituted individual quotas (IQs) for this sector of the fishery. Soon thereafter …
Time of Reckoning
The Politics of Discourse in Rural Ireland
Av Adrian Peace
Häftad, 1997
302 kr
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In 1988, Merrell Dow, an American transnational company, proposed to build a chemical factory in a dairy farming locality in County Cork, Ireland. Local residents organized a social protest movement to defend their economic livelihood and rural way of life. Their campaign forced a public hearing …
Looking Out for the Lads
Community Action and the Provision of Youth Services in an Urban Irish Parish
Häftad, 1997
328 kr
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An examination of the efforts of residents of an urban parish in Cork, Ireland, to deal with various self-identified youth problems, such as unemployment, crime and substance abuse. Looking Out for the Lads is an ethnographic investigation of community development as a strategy for social …
Remembering the Years of My Life
Journeys of a Labrador Inuit Hunter
Av Paulus Maggo, Carol Brice-Bennett
Häftad, 1999
261 kr
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At the age of eighty-three, Paulus Maggo, a highly respected Inuit elder residing in Nain on the Northern Labrador Coast, began narrating his experiences; from a child riding on his father's kayak to a senior citizen watching TV programs beamed by satellite to the community. His reflections provide …
I Never Knowed It Was Hard
Memoirs of a Labrador Trapper
Av Louie Montague, Elizabeth Dawson
Häftad, 2013
229 kr
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I Never Knowed It Was Hard, the memoirs of Naskaupi River trapper and fiddler Louie Montague, a 77-year-old Nunatsiavut (Inuit) elder from North West River, Labrador, recounts in rich detail the way of life in "them days." Louie has travelled Labrador extensively as a trapper, hunter, prospector, …
Bringing Home Animals
Mistissini Hunters of Northern Quebec
Häftad, 2014
274 kr
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Bringing Home Animals is an ethnography detailing what the author learned as a result of travelling and working with Iinuu (Cree) hunters and their families in Northern Quebec. The study was conducted from 1969–1971, and is a rich example of subsistence hunting in an Indigenous territory. The …
Patching Peace
Women's Civil Society Organising in Northern Ireland
Häftad, 2015
274 kr
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Throughout Northern Ireland, the term "civil society" refers to community and voluntary sector organisations, many of which are constituted by women as the majority of their membership. This book examines some of the invitations extended to women's civil society organisations to contribute towards …
Moccasin Tracks
A Memoir of Mi'kmaw Life in Newfoundland
Häftad, 2015
288 kr
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John Nick Jeddore's richly detailed memoir begins when he was a boy in the 1920s and 1930s. His historical account makes a major contribution to our understanding of life "on the country" and in Conne River, Bay D'Espoir, as well as what it was like to be confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium and …
Sweat Equity
Cooperative House-Building in Newfoundland, 1920-1974
Häftad, 2016
316 kr
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The lack of decent urban housing — a problem neither new nor unique to Newfoundland — was widely recognized during the twentieth century. After numerous piecemeal attempts to find a solution, a remarkable and successful government-supported "sweat equity" program was established in 1952, where …
Music of Our Burnished Axes
Songs and Stories of the Woods Workers of Newfoundland and Labrador
Av Ursula A. Kelly, Meghan C. Forsyth
Häftad, 2018
323 kr
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While well-known songs such as "The Badger Drive" and "Tickle Cove Pond" provide glimpses into the hard labour and rich culture of woods work in early twentieth-century Newfoundland and Labrador, little has been written about the lives of woods workers and the extent of their enduring cultural …
Robert Bond
A Political Biography
Häftad, 2019
350 kr
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First elected to Newfoundland's House of Assembly in 1882, Robert Bond served as a member of government and opposition—and notably as prime minister—in an era filled with challenges that still resonate today. During three turbulent decades, St. John's burned down, the banks failed, and the drive …
Mistress of the Blue Castle
The Writing Life of Phebe Florence Miller
Häftad, 2018
312 kr
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Phebe Florence Miller was a poet and postmistress who lived in Topsail, Newfoundland and Labrador from 1889–1979. Despite her success as a poetic voice in the 1920s and '30s, Miller is an obscure figure for today's readers. This book brings her life and her contributions to Newfoundland and …
Shaped by Silence
Stories from Inmates of the Good Shepherd Laundries and Reformatories
Av Rie Croll
Häftad, 2019
327 kr
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Shaped by Silence brings together the powerful stories of five women from Ireland, Canada, and Australia whose lives were shaped by forced confinement in Magdalene laundries and other institutions operated by the Roman Catholic Order of Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Their narratives include one …
We All Expected to Die
Spanish Influenza in Labrador, 1918-1919
Av Anne Budgell
Häftad, 2018
294 kr
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At the end of World War I, after four years of unimaginable man-made destruction, a swiftly killing virus travelled the planet. Up to one hundred million people perished in the most lethal pandemic in recorded history, the so-called "Spanish" influenza. More than half those who died were young …
Earth Is Flat!
An Exposé of the Globularist Hoax
Häftad, 2019
297 kr
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Kay Burns and David Eso's edition of Leo Ferrari's The Earth Is Flat! introduces us to a long-forgotten satirical work, which, in an age of fake news, possesses renewed relevance. Ferrari, a philosopher by training, draws on his extensive knowledge of classical thought to present a history of ideas …
Long Journey
Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland
Häftad, 2020
327 kr
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Left out of the national apology and reconciliation process begun in 2008, survivors of residential schools in Labrador and Newfoundland received a formal apology from the Canadian government in 2017. This recognition finally brought them into the circle of residential school survivors across …
Foresters' Scribe
Remembering the Newfoundland Forestry Companies Through the First World War Letters of Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant John a. Barrett
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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The Foresters' Scribe is the first comprehensive study of the Newfoundland Forestry Companies (NFC) of the First World War. It adds a long-overdue and essential chapter to the Great War history of Newfoundland and Labrador.A century has gone by since the NFC was formed in 1917, yet little is known …
Strange Terrain
The Fairy World in Newfoundland
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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Fairies might be good or bad, and encounters with them funny or fatal. They can take on the form of people or animals, or they may have no form at all, as when a person walking in the woods is "led astray" by some irresistible force. This variability in fairies is matched by the diversity of human …
On Inuit Cinema | Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget
Häftad, 2022
383 kr
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Since the invention of moving pictures, countless Inuit have worked in front of and behind the camera. The diversity and complexity of this body of work makes capturing and conveying its full scale a challenge.Together with Inuit filmmakers, media advocates, and producers, as well as with their …
Fishing Measures
A Critique of Desk-Bound Reason
Häftad, 2021
294 kr
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Fishing Measures investigates the introduction of fisheries science to Newfoundland's saltfishery between the 1880s and 1930s. Banoub argues that during this period fishers' embodied knowledge came to be seen as less reliable and authoritative than modern scientific state management. Fishing …
