The eternal slum

The history of greenland

Cultural diversity and canadian education

This thorough study will be of assistance to those seeking to understand the role of education in contemporary Canada. Education policy and practice regarding language and culture are highlighted, as is the crucially important question of cultural transmission.

The history of greenland

Serious leisure and individuality

A thoughtful examination of how we become individuals and how we fit into personal and social life.

Genuine multiculturalism

A provocative look at why multiculturalism could only have originated in the Americas.

Social engineering

Social engineering in the 20th century has brought about some large-scale changes in society, often the result of visionary social projects, and plans designed on a grand and ideal scale. Such plans have often extracted terrible human costs. Numerous failures have marked 20th century social engin...

Places in the news

The last 20 years have witnessed a growing uneasiness about the future direction of the mass media. Places in the News examines the origin and destination of the news appearing in 21 of Canada's daily newspapers. It investigates the cities and countries that provide the preponderance of news, the...

Replacing misandry

After ten thousand years of technological and cultural revolutions that have all but severed the relation between maleness and masculinity, have men become obsolete?

The beaver bites back?

Canadians have demonstrated a remarkable sense of unity about protection of their "cultural industries" during the continuing national debate over free trade. This study of the effect of American popular culture on Canada is therefore particularly relevant.

The race question in canada

Written about the Canada of Laurier's day, Siegfried's book is a witty and sophisticated report on the elements in the Canadian dilemma, a profound analysis of Canadian politics, churches, education and attitudes to external affairs.

Indians of the north pacific coast

The writings of prominent anthropologists are collected in this volume, to provide a multi-faceted look at the native peoples of the North Pacific Coast, including the Tlingit, the Haida, the Bella Coola and the Salish.

Cultural ecology

The french-canadian outlook

The making of canadian food aid policy

Since the Colombo Plan in the early 1950s, food aid has been an important and highly visible component of the Canadian development assistance program. Until the early 1970s, however, the Canadian food aid program was little more than a loosely connected collection of disparate programs designed t...

These mysterious people

The story of how the Musqueam First Nation have used cultural objects to take control of their history and land.

A history of journalism in canada

The invention of journalism ethics

Does objectivity in the news media exist? In The Invention of Journalism Ethics Stephen Ward argues that, given the current emphasis on interpretation, analysis, and perspective, journalists and the public need a new theory of objectivity. He explores the varied ethical assertions of journalists ...

Ideological perspectives on canada

In Ideological Perspectives on Canada, Patricia Marchak builds on her earlier descriptions of Canadian reality - its liberalism and socialism - to argue that today's corporatism differs from its forerunners in both its values and its definition of society.

Barbaric civilization

Why have the largest mass murders in human history taken place in the past hundred years? Why have European colonizers so often denied the humanity of the colonized? In Barbaric Civilization, Christopher Powell advances a radical thesis to answer these questions: that civilization produces genoci...

Quest for an american sociology

Fertility and family planning in a canadian metropolis

Logging the globe

With the growth of industrial forestry in the southern hemisphere and the restructuring of forestry in the northern hemisphere, the industry is undergoing tremendous change. Logging the Globe investigates the transformations that are taking place and their ecological, social, and economic impact.

The making of urban scotland

Reclaiming indigenous planning

How Indigenous peoples are reclaiming community planning practices and ideologies.

Eskimo of the canadian arctic

These essays, which extend in subject from Shamanism to Eskimo language, from the Eskimo economy to Eskimo art, continue to appeal to a wide range of readers.

A different drummer

This volume is a collective production by Carleton University's anthropology caucus, for use in introductory courses in cultural anthropology. It is an alternative to available textbooks which the caucus feels are mainly American in orientation, and not respectful of third and fourth world peoples.

Recent social trends in quebec, 1960-1990

Readers will follow an intense period of social change in Quebec, during which there was a remarkable increase in the level of modernization. They will note a massive entry of women into the labour force and a growing service sector that now constitutes seventy percent of all economic activity. T...

The history of greenland

Does money matter?

Does Money Matter provides a useful summary of previous studies and government schemes to promote accessibility, and evaluates present policy in light of its analysis of the effect of social class, sex, money and other factors on the educational aspirations of young people.

Challenging times

Challenging Times offers a provocative and detailed overview of feminist movements in Canada and the United States. Through a series of essays that offer innovative interpretations and careful, original scholarship, Constance Backhouse, David Flaherty, and the contributing authors compare and con...

Normal bad boys

Institutions for juveniles have achieved a degree of professionalism that allows them to mask their selection of particular clients for organizationally convenient rather than clinically appropriate reasons. In Normal Bad Boys, Prue Rains and Eli Teram document the evolution and transformation of...

Choosing to labour?

How social class influences the educational decisions and experiences of vocational and academic-track youth in Canada and Germany.

The measure of canadian society

Vertical Mosaic. In this book are gathered ten of his outstanding essays, written over a period of twenty-five years. Porter's well-known ex-student Wallace Clement provides the introduction for this volume, and Richard Helmes-Hayes has compiled an updated bibliography of writings by and about Jo...

Thinking with water

An exploration of the relationship between water's cultural meanings and urgent ecological issues.

Ethnographic feminisms

This book is written by anthropologists who are currently engaged in research on gender. The editors argue for the development of an ethnography-based feminism that both pays heed to what women in specific circumstances identify as their concerns and recognizes the contradictions inherent in the ...

Death talk, second edition

A reasoned, passionate, and wide-ranging enquiry into the euthanasia debate and its consequences for individuals and society.

The indian muslims

Conflicted commitments

A critical look at the politics and paradoxes of race in humanitarian efforts.

Vancouver's chinatown

Popular wisdom maintains that the colourful Chinese quarters of Canadian, American, and Australian cities owe their existence to the generations of Chinese immigrants who have made their lives there. The restaurants, pagodas, and neon lights are seen as intrinsically connected to the Chinese and ...

Our ice is vanishing / sikuvut nunguliqtuq

A remarkable and moving journey through Arctic history into an uncertain future, highlighting Inuit as well as European and Canadian perspectives.

Ethnography and development

An insightful exploration of the work and continued influence of a groundbreaking anthropologist.

The world of the gift

In an age dominated by consumerism and government agencies many people believe that generosity and altruism either no longer exist or are fuelled by self-interest. Gifts are seen as, at best, irrelevant frills. In The World of the Gift Jacques Godbout and Alain Caillé show that in reality the gif...

Legalizing misandry

Lurid and sensationalized events such as the public response to Lorena Bobbitt after she cut off her abusive husband's penis, prurient fascination provoked by Anita Hill's allegations about Clarence Thomas, and the exploitation of the mass murder of fourteen women in Montreal have been processed ...

Earth into property

A broad exploration of the colonial roots of global capitalism and the worldwide quest of Indigenous people for liberation through decolonization.

The archaeology of bruce trigger

The life and work of a renowned archaeologist.

Alone in silence

It has been estimated that over 500 European women travelled or lived in Canada's Northwest Territories before 1940. They came as visiters, journalists, and artists, or worked as nurses, scientists, and missionaries. In Alone in Silence Barbara Kelcey describes the women who lived and worked in t...

Transdisciplinarity

This book addresses the need for transdisciplinarity, a new and important approach to solution of global problems.

Transforming psyche

In an accessible style and readable prose, Barbara Weir Huber explores the myth of Psyche, interweaving research from diverse disciplines such as current feminist and educational theories, mythology, literature, psychology, and cultural anthropology. She offers an original, critical reinterpretat...

Ethnic relations in canada

This collection of Raymond Breton's essential writings highlights his work on French-English relations in Canada, examining the social origins of Quebec's Quiet Revolution, the different forms of English-Canadian and Quebec nationalism, the relationship between linguistic and regional divisions, ...

Women who made the news

From the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, the press was the pre-eminent source of information in Canadian society. While the dominant voice of the Fifth Estate was undoubtedly male, a diverse and dispersed group of Canadian women sought and won access to this ...

Tortillas and tomatoes

A timely analysis of why the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is needed. Basok argues while Mexican workers do not necessarily constitute cheap labour for Canadian growers, they are vital for the survival of some agricultural sectors as they are always available for work, even on holidays an...

Cancer stories

Each of us will be touched by cancer in the course of our lifetime - as a person diagnosed with the disease or as a family member or friend who must witness its course in someone we love. For all of us, this encounter with cancer will entail an exploration of the margins of life and death. Too of...

Canada's big biblical bargain

The story of Canada's attempt to purchase the greatest manuscript discovery of the twentieth century.

Management of the mentally disordered offender in prisons

Possibly no area of human endeavour poses a greater ethical challenge to a free society than the safe control of mentally disordered persons who represent a significant social danger. Managing mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) is a major challenge for the clinician because they have multiple p...

The early origins of the social sciences

Arguing that the beginnings of the social sciences extend much further back than is generally realized, Lynn McDonald traces the methodological foundations, research techniques, and basic concepts of the social sciences from their earliest origins to the beginning of this century. This thorough i...

Nightclub

In the last thirty years bouncers have emerged as gatekeepers of contemporary urban cool, exclusivity, and social capital. In this ground-breaking empirical study, George Rigakos looks at the relation between consumption, security, and risk and challenges the idea of nightclubs as places of liber...

Making out in the mainstream

A behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of LGBT media activism during a period of rapid societal change.

Recent social trends in west germany, 1960-1990

The third volume in the invaluable reference series Comparative Charting of Social Change examines social trends in West Germany during the period between 1960 and 1990. This was a special phase of German history: the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949, and by 1960 the main disturban...

Tales until dawn

Joe Neil MacNeil holds in his memory a wealth of Gaelic folktales, learned in his youth in Cape Breton. For over a decade, he has told his tales to John Shaw, a specialist in Celtic folklore and fluent speaker of Gaelic. Shaw has recorded, transcribed, edited, and translated the tales and folklor...

Confessions of a yiddish writer and other essays

A collection of essays by the great Yiddish novelist Chava Rosenfarb, most published in English for the first time.

Anthropology, public policy, and native peoples in canada

Since the 1950s the federal government has mounted a series of initiatives to address the social, economic, and political marginality of Canadian Natives. These initiatives have had a fundamental and often negative impact on Native communities, often as a result of the intense resistance they hav...

Feminist politics on the farm

The women studied were clearly progressive in their opinions and the authors show that their original and varied opinions cast doubt on much of the standard literature about non-elite women's understanding of mainstream politics and the women's movement. These rural women differed significantly f...

The punjabis in british columbia

Contrasting immigrant experiences in remote regions and metropolitan centres of Canada.

Canada and immigration

Being arab

Arabs in North America are often perceived to be a monolithic group. Being Arab explores how Muslim and Christian Arab-Canadian youth actually negotiate their ethnic and religious identities. Focusing on the experiences of students from five colleges in Montreal, Paul Eid considers the influence ...

It's a working man's town, first edition

An examination of the ordinary weekend pursuits of working-class males in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

The passeggiata and popular culture in an italian town

An in-depth study detailing how members of a small Italian community use both traditional practices and expressive forms taken from popular culture to grapple with the social changes brought about by modernity.

Firekeepers of the twenty-first century

A quiet revolution is occurring in Canada's First Nations communities, with changes taking place on social, political, and economic fronts and a significant redistribution of power. Changes to the Indian Act in 1951 paved the way for women to become officially involved in reserve politics, and wi...

Harpoon of the hunter

Harpoon of the Hunter is the widely acclaimed story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a treacherous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Markoosie describes life in the Canadian Arctic before the ar...

Disrobing the aboriginal industry

Despite the billions of dollars devoted to aboriginal causes, Native people in Canada continue to suffer all the symptoms of a marginalized existence - high rates of substance abuse, violence, poverty. Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry argues that the policies proposed to address these problems -...

Rent boys

Rent Boys paints a vivid picture of the men who service men in an urban Western context. Using interviews with forty young male sex workers, Michel Dorais analyses their differences in terms of self-esteem, control over their lives, relations to their clients, and risk of HIV infection. He insigh...

Forced migration, reconciliation, and justice

The links between displacement and the search for justice and reconciliation, in theory and in practice.

The mastery and uses of fire in antiquity

The material fabric of nearly all settled civilizations exists largely because of pyrotechnology - the generation, control, and application of the heat from fire to change the properties of materials. The technological achievements that make contemporary society possible, for instance, are the re...

Situating "race" and racisms in space, time, and theory

Grounded in real life and theoretically charged, the nine essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore how race, racisms, and racialization are changing and suggest strategies for reading their emerging forms and discourses. Race has historically been defined by visible difference, but the...

Cuthbert grant of grantown

This book examines the Métis settlement of Grantown, the controversial "massacre" of Seven Oaks, the Siouan wars and the Red River settlement's fight for survival.

The yearbook of symbolic anthropology

Chiefs of the plantation

An inside look at the ways in which labour relations are constituted and contested in South African agriculture.

Youth squad

How police surveillance and crime prevention programs became a normal part of modern-day childhood.

Blackness and modernity

Cecil Foster presents a rigorous interdisciplinary analysis of blackness by challenging existing notions of blackness and arguing for the viability of a multicultural world.

Reproductive acts

A thought-provoking exploration of how fiction and film can provide ways of understanding reproductive politics.

Fight, flight, or chill

Rave is one of the first distinct and significant youth subcultures to emerge since the early days of punk rockers and skinheads. A middle-class culture renowned for drug use, computer-generated "techno" music, and all-night dance parties, rave has been described as everything from a drug cult to...

Voices from hudson bay

In Voices from Hudson Bay Cree elders recall the daily lives and experiences of the men and women who lived and worked at the Hudson's Bay Company post at York Factory in Manitoba. Their stories, their memories of family, community, and daily life, define their past and provide insights into a wa...

Push!

In the 1980s there were few midwives in Canada and their practice was neither legal nor officially recognized. Ontario midwives and their supporters pushed to integrate midwifery into provincial health care systems and by 1993 had established an internationally renowned model. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault...

The prestige squeeze

What do you do?" is often the first question posed when strangers meet, as occupation reveals a great deal about both social identity and social standing or "occupational prestige.

Permanent weekend

A timely examination of the causes and consequences of rural gentrification.

Mediating moms

A collection of essays showcasing intersections of mothering, the media, and popular culture.

Don't tell, second edition

Nearly one male in six has been the victim of sexual abuse during childhood or adolescence, yet this abuse remains a taboo subject, even among victims. In Don't Tell, Michel Dorais gives the victims a voice, providing a sensitive analysis of their traumas and self-questioning, and offering strate...

Translating montreal

The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan, hybrid city. Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras, Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. Sketching out literary passages from the then...

Technology and nationalism

A study of technology and nationalism and how they have shaped twenty-first century Canada.

Beyond the sea

A collection of innovative essays on the iconic, dystopian video game series and its lasting influence.

Sexual diversity in africa

A comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Surface imaginations

A meditation on why surfaces are so profound in the contemporary culture of cosmetic surgery.

Reading between the borderlines

“[Reading Between the Borderlines] is impeccably edited and well-written. Its wide-ranging contributions make it a mandatory addition to any library concerned with North American studies.” Amerikastudien / American StudiesAn investigation into how culture is made, moved, and used across the Canad...

What the bones say

Here is a thoroughly engaging history of one line of human science research and its consequences for the hapless, and often helpless, subject of study: the indigenous peoples of Tasmania. Research questions arising from skeletal remains were posed and pursued on the assumption that these vanishin...

Anatomy of gender

Throughout the ages, the female body has been enshrined as an aesthetic object, associated with nature, sin and danger. This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to the female body.

A house of one's own

An intimate study of everyday humanitarianism in post-earthquake El Salvador.

Muscle on wheels

A fascinating account of high-wheel bicycle racing and one of North America's first women professional athletes.

Recent social trends in france, 1960-1990

Over the three decades from 1960 to 1990, French society underwent a spectacular transformation due to the baby boom, which was particularly broad-based and prolonged in France and caused the population to climb by a full one-third. At the same time, the French economy expanded and the pace of mo...