Observing the Outports
Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980
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Word Count
108,000 words, Guess
Page Count
432 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28828327M
- ISBN-139781442628946
- OCLC Control Number937724357
- OCLC Control Number919340232
- Internet Archiveobservingoutport0000webb
Classifications
- LCCF1122.W43 2016
- LCCF1122
Description
"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 provinces̉ cultural revival."--
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