Between History and Tomorrow - Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Newfoundland

"This is what anthropology should be and the way ethnography should be done." - Gavin Smith, University of Toronto

List of contents

Acknowledgements for the second edition

Acknowledgements for the first edition

Map of Newfoundland

Map of the Bonavista Peninsula

Prologue: Living within and against today: towards an anthropology of vulnerable lives

PART ONE: Introductions

1. Anthropology and history, culture and class

2. The particularity and relevance of Newfoundland

3. Autonomy and the harness: the logic of merchant capital

PART TWO: Domination, alliances, and descent

4. Regale and rule: the logic of paternalism and the emergence of village culture

5. When fishermen may starve: the Slade and Kelson Plan of 1825

6. The times of our lives: descent, alliances, custom, and history

PART THREE: The politics of subsistence production: hegemony at work in a collapsing state

7. The memorial of the merchants of Poole

8. A political holiday

9. We may live in hopes

CONCLUSION:

10. Merchant capital and the cross-handed triumphs of tradition

EPILOGUE: When localities implode: social reproduction in the midst of near total unemployment.

References

Index

About the author

By Gerald Sider

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Sider
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2003
• EAN: 9781551115177
• ISBN: 978-1-55111-517-7
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Series: Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra; Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnogra
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology