This book is about the problems faced by able-bodied men who are forced to live off public welfare, or "on the dole." Based on the author's daily interactions with a hundred unemployed men in one Newfoundland ...

Beyond ecologic, economic and kinship relationships, this is a study of symbolic behaviour--notably verbal communication, attitudes towards 'strangers' and witchcraft practices. This book demonstrates ...

A Norwegian anthropologist gives his version of the 'developing' Newfoundland economy. The analysis focuses on the political restrictions on economic development, and on the shortcomings of decision-making ...

A theoretical framework consisting of four related models concerned with manpower and educational development. Significant here is the linking of manpower needs with the educational structure. This study ...

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 ...

This study centres upon the way the fishermen and their families in a village in the Strait of Belle Isle construct their social relations around egality and competition--two values so often mistakenly ...

From a sociological perspective, this report examines the effects of the resettlement programmes begun by the Government of Newfoundland in the 1950s.

Three communities from the same geographical area but each with a different economic base are compared: a traditional fishing 'outport,' a community that from its inception was based on mining, and one ...

This study was undertaken shortly after the resettlement of Inuit from northernmost Labrador to Makkovik in 1961. Prior to this, Makkovik had a primarily white settler population dating from the mid-nineteenth ...

Based on fieldwork in the late 1960s, this study examines the economic and social changes that came to rural Newfoundland since Confederation with Canada in 1949. What kinds of decisions were made by ...