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Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980

Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980


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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.



Table of Contents:

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: Collecting Folklore

Chapter Four: Cat Harbour: Anthropologists in Outports

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

Chapter Six: Communities in Decline: The Study of Resettlement

Conclusion



About the Author :

Jeff A. Webb is a professor and head of the Department of History at Memorial University.



Review :

Observing the Outports is one of the most fascinating regional histories I have read in a long time… The book will be read by anyone interested in the study of regional culture and those interested in how interdisciplinarity can be developed within insular confines of the academy.’

- Richard MacKinnon (Canadian Historical Review vol 98:02:2017)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781442625310
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980
  • ISBN-10: 1442625317
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2016
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 432


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