Communications Division: annual review, 1973

Communications Division: annual review, 1973
Author: Barbara Tyler
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 41
Release: 1974-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1772824208

A summary of the activities of the Communications Division, National Museum of Man, in 1973.

Skill and status

Skill and status
Author: Laurel Doucette
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 177282335X

A study of a ten-member rural sibling group, characterized by a high degree of specialization in traditional skills, which determines the factors regulating the achievement of status in a family setting.

People in the tobacco belt

People in the tobacco belt
Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1975-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1772823228

During the summer of 1972 the life histories of four Hungarian immigrants to Canada were recorded on tape in and around Delhi in southwestern Ontario, a major tobacco farming district.

Greeks of Vancouver

Greeks of Vancouver
Author: George James Patterson
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772823260

An examination of the unparalleled retention of cultural traditions by Greek immigrants in the Kitsilano region of Vancouver, British Columbia.

CCFCS collection of musical instruments: Volume 2

CCFCS collection of musical instruments: Volume 2
Author: Roy W. Gibbons
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 135
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1772823481

This volume constitutes a catalogue of one hundred and sixteen idiophones and membranophones from a wide range of cultures in the collections of the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies.

Swedish community at Eriksdale, Manitoba

Swedish community at Eriksdale, Manitoba
Author: George J. Houser
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772823236

Based on the oral testimony of almost forty informants, this text describes the cultural traditions of the loggers, construction workers, and other skilled tradesmen and their families who emigrated from northern Sweden in the early twentieth century to take up farming in what has since become the municipality of Eriksdale, Manitoba. Particular emphasis is placed upon an examination of the ways in which these customs were adapted to conform to a variety of historical, social, and economic influences.

Black Pentecostal music in Windsor

Black Pentecostal music in Windsor
Author: Paul McIntyre
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1772823244

This ethnomusicological study focuses on the musical behaviour and dance observed in the summer of 1973 among members of the Windsor, Ontario Afro-Canadian community during religious services at Mt. Zion Church. The history of the group as well as details of musical ritual are analyzed in depth.