Craftsman-Client Contracts

Interpersonal Relations in a Newfoundland Fishing Community

By Louis J. Chiaramonte
Series: Social and Economic Studies
Publisher: ISER Books
Hardcover : 9780919666016, 64 pages, January 1970

Description

What transactions take place when one villager wants another to build him a boat? Chiaramonte traces the complex and delicate series of social exchanges that are set in process by this seemingly straightforward 'economic' transaction.