Observing the Outports : Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980 / Jeff Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Jeff, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memorial University of Newfoundland--History.

Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Newfoundland and Labrador--Historiography.

Newfoundland and Labrador.

Newfoundland and Labrador--Civilization--Study and teaching--History.

Newfoundland and Labrador--Social life and customs--Study and teaching--History.

Newfoundland and Labrador--Study and teaching--History.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The years after Newfoundland's confederation with Canada were ones of rapid social and economic change, as provincial resettlement and industrialization initiatives attempted to transform the lives of rural Newfoundlanders. At Memorial University in St. John's, a new generation of faculty saw the province's transformation as a critical moment. Some hoped to solve the challenges of modernization through their rural research. Others hoped to document the island's "traditional" culture before it disappeared. Between them they created the field of "Newfoundland studies."In Observing the Outports, Jeff A. Webb illustrates how interdisciplinary collaborations among scholars of lexicography, history, folklore, anthropology, sociology, and geography laid the foundation of our understanding of Newfoundland society in an era of modernization. His extensive archival research and oral history interviews illuminate how scholars at Memorial University created an intellectual movement that paralleled the province's cultural revival.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. Viewing the Universe through Newfoundland Eyes: The Dictionary of Newfoundland English

Chapter Two. Writing History

Chapter Three. Herbert Halpert and Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland

Chapter Four. Cat Harbour: Anthropologists in Outports

Chapter Five. The Peopling of Newfoundland: Mapping Cultural Transfer and Settlement

Chapter Six. Communities in Decline: The Study of Resettlement

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-411) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jul 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-2532-5

1-4426-2531-7

OCLC:

948392237