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Observing the Outports - Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980 (Paperback)
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Observing the Outports - Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980 (Paperback)
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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.
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