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NFB Kids

By Brian J. Low
Subjects: History, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Social Science, Sociology, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema — this book explores exactly that.
Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children ...

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature

Edited by Richard J. Preston
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography

A Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North.
A short biography is followed by essays describing ...

Bountiful Island

By David Damas
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography

In Bountiful Island a major Arctic scholar turns his eye on Micronesia: the small and isolated atoll of Pingelap in Micronesia lies in a moist climatic belt which encourages abundant plant life, including ...

EcCentric Visions

By Gaile McGregor
Subjects: Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies

What this book represents is, quite literally, a “slice” of (white) Australian life. By noting the patterns and parallels that emerge in a random sampling of social phenomena of widely varying types, ...

Ecologies of Affect

Edited by Ondine Park, Rob Shields, and Tonya K. Davidson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Ethnography, Social Science, Urban Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, ...

Minds of Our Own

Edited by Francine Descarries, Margrit Eichler, Meg Luxton, and Wendy Robbins
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Ethnography, Education

This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document ...

Persistence of the Gift

By Mike Evans
Subjects: Business & Economics, Economics, Social Science, Anthropology, Ethnography, Political Science

Tonga, the South Pacific island kingdom located east of Fiji and south of Samoa, is one of the world’s few remaining constitutional monarchies. Although Tonga has long been linked to the world system ...

This Spot of Ground

By Carol B. Duncan
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Ethnography, Emigration & Immigration, Religion

This Spot of Ground: Spiritual Baptists in Toronto represents the first detailed exploration of an African-Caribbean religion in the context of contemporary migration to Canada. Toronto is home to Canadas ...