Holding the Line

Ethnic Boundaries in a Northern Labrador Community

By John Charles Kennedy
Categories: Social Sciences, Anthropology
Series: Social and Economic Studies
Publisher: ISER Books
Paperback : 9780919666399, 185 pages, January 1982

Description

More than a decade after Ben-Dor's study, Makkovik, Kennedy's research of the same community shows that the Settler and Inuit groups still have little to do with each other. The author describes the ways in which Settlers and Inuit attach ethnically specific and symbolic meanings to past and present cultural traits. By this process, separate ethnic boundaries are maintained.