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Viewpoints on Communities in Crisis

These essays are from a conference convened expressly to appraise the Iverson and Matthews study of the same year, and to consider resettlement strategies in general.

A House Divided

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 ...

The White Arctic

"...a sensitive and significant set of essays...It provides important data and substantial insights by which other scholars may comprehend equivalent responses to the welfare colonialism that has now ...

Consequences of Offshore Oil and Gas

An early examination of the potential impact of development of offshore oil and gas on Newfoundland. The focus is on experience elsewhere, particularly in Norway and the United Kingdom, with a global ...

The Compact

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 ...

North Atlantic Fishermen

These field studies were conducted among commercial fishermen in Newfoundland, Norway, Shetland and Sweden. Although the fishermen work with similar technologies in similar physical environments, they ...

Patrons and Brokers in the East Arctic

In virtually every settlement in the Canadian Arctic there are one or more white persons 'in charge'; the aim of this volume is to explain the relationship that exists between these persons and the local ...