Download or read book Textile traditions of eastern Newfoundland written by Gerald L. Pocius and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the once communal and now individual activity of textile production in eastern Newfoundland including dyeing techniques, fancywork, and the creation of mittens, socks, sweaters, mats, and quilts. The author identifies an emphasis on the quality of the product rather than strict adherence to stylistic norms and suggests that higher household incomes and the increased availability of commercial textiles have led to fewer individuals practising this art.
Download or read book Textile Traditions of Eastern Newfoundland written by Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Textile Traditions of Eastern Newfoundland written by Gerald L. Pocius and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk music in a Newfoundland outport written by Gordon Sidney Allister Cox and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic description of Newfoundland outport music and its social significance based on interviews conducted in Green’s Harbour and the Trinity Bay South area.
Download or read book Newfoundland mummers Christmas house visit written by Margaret R. Robertson and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the practice of mummery in Newfoundland including a discussion of mummering time, groups, costumes, and behaviour. The author argues that mummery reflects cultural values and is a ritual response to a liminal state.
Download or read book Boat building in Winterton Trinity Bay Newfoundland written by David A. Taylor and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on fieldwork conducted in 1978 and 1979, this study deals with the living tradition of building inshore fishing boats. It attempts to describe the dynamics and functions of boat building within the context of the community’s social, economic and natural environment.
Download or read book Canadian craft and museum practice 1900 1950 written by Sandra Flood and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first overview of craft activity, as an integral part of Canadian culture between 1900 and 1950, and reviews the tone and focus of contemporaneous writing about craft. It explores the diversity of all aspects of craft, including makers, production, organization, education, and government involvement.
Download or read book The Grace of Four Moons written by Pravina Shukla and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because clothing, food, and shelter are basic human needs, they provide excellent entries to cultural values and individual aesthetics. Everyone gets dressed every day, but body art has not received the attention it deserves as the most common and universal of material expressions of culture. The Grace of Four Moons aims to document the clothing decisions made by ordinary people in their everyday lives. Based on fieldwork conducted primarily in the city of Banaras, India, Pravina Shukla conceptualizes and realizes a total model for the study of body art—understood as all aesthetic modifications and supplementations to the body. Shukla urges the study of the entire process of body art, from the assembly of raw materials and the manufacture of objects, through their sale and the interactions between merchants and consumers, to the consumer's use of objects in creating personal decoration.
Download or read book Silk Stocking Mats written by Paula Laverty and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1928, the Grenfell Mission sent out a call to socialites: When your stockings run, let them run to Labrador! The creative recycling of tattered stockings, dyed in soft hues, is just one of many innovations that made Grenfell hooked mats highly collectible folk art. In Silk Stocking Mats, Paula Laverty chronicles the development of a local craft into an art form. For generations Newfoundland women had augmented their family's unreliable fishing income with a matting season in February and March. Through the Grenfell Mission's Industrial Department, set up in 1909 to help develop cottage industries, the mat industry became an increasingly important source of income, reaching peak production in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the women's mats became renowned for their strong design, meticulous craftsmanship, and distinctive images chronicling life in the north. Reindeer, sled dog teams, polar bears, schooners, outports, and florals are but a few of the mat designs. Silk Stocking Mats is the result of over seventeen years of exhaustive research and draws on personal interviews with older women who recall their hooking days, the study of hundreds of archival documents, and careful examination of countless Grenfell hooked mats. Laverty's book is beautifully illustrated with photographs and descriptions, including rare and unusual as well as common mat designs.
Download or read book Cultural retention demographic change written by Laurel Doucette and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three essays discuss the history, folkways and mechanisms of social change among the descendants of nineteenth century immigrants from the Outer Hebridean Islands of Harris and Lewis now living in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
Download or read book A Place to Belong written by Gerald L. Pocius and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Place to Belong is a profusely illustrated, intimate, contemporary portrait of Calvert, a three-hundred-year-old fishing village on Newfoundland's southern shore. Often using its residents' own words, Gerald Pocius describes in detail the continual creative encounters between past and present, between individual and community, that make up daily life in Calvert. By accepted standards of tradition, Calvert's culture is declining. Old structures are regularly torn down or renovated; antique household items are replaced with modern conveniences. Pocius argues, however, that the tangible expressions of a culture can be misleading. Calvert's essence is not in the things owned and used by its residents but in the spaces in which those things abide and in the attitudes, values, and obligations that delineate the order of those spaces. From woodlands, water, and fields to yards, gardens, and homes, Calvert's physical and social structure is governed by shared concerns about the community's livelihood and welfare. As a resident of Calvert puts it, "Where you're working in the same space with people you know ... it's just not practical to be falling out with everyone." The sense of community that pervades Calvert is best exemplified by its annual draw for fishing berths. Because productivity varies among offshore fishing grounds, there is no private ownership of fishing rights. Rather, a lottery instituted in 1919 ensures each family the same chances for periodic access to the best fishing berths. The draw continues until all the fishing berths are awarded, but it is common for a family to opt out once they have drawn enough good berths. There are also instances of the most successful fishing operations sharing their catches. From his observations of Calvert's people at work and leisure, Pocius provides evidence to confirm the viability and durability of their culture. He reveals that standard assumptions about culture are inadequate, particularly those based on the primacy of artefacts and on sharp dichotomies between tradition and modernity. Calvert, he shows, belies our notion that declining cultural values and social segmentation are unavoidable side-effects of modernisation and a rise in material well-being. A Place to Belong will promote a constructive scepticism about the ways we perceive and interpret cultures and, most important, will remind us of what it really means to belong to a place.
Download or read book Folk music of Canada s oldest Polish community La musique traditionnelle de la plus ancienne communaut polonaise du Canada written by John Michael Glofcheskie and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field collection of the repertoire of song and dance music of the Polish-Canadians of Renfrew County, Ontario, and a discussion of its function in their daily lives. / Échantillon du répertoire musical des Canadiens polonais du comté de Renfrew, Ontario, et l’amorce d’une discussion sur sa fonction au sein de la communauté.
Download or read book As it comes written by Roy W. Gibbons and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the folk fiddling tradition of Prince George, British Columbia, offers a brief overview of the genre, biographical sketches of three of the region’s fiddlers, and fourteen melodies.
Download or read book CCFCS collection of musical instruments Volume 3 written by Roy W. Gibbons and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes a catalogue of one hundred and seventy-four chordophones from a wide range of cultures in the collections of the Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies.
Download or read book CCFCS collection of musical instruments Volume 2 written by Roy W. Gibbons and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Something out of nothing written by Stephen Robert Inglis and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the context of a discussion of trends in folk art research, the author describes the social significance of the art of George Cockayne and provides a catalogue of his work described in his own words.
Download or read book Pantagruel in Canada written by Marius Barbeau and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing Jacques Cartier’s Voyages with the fictional explorations of Rabelais’ Pantagruel, Marius Barbeau is able to demonstrate that it is the latter work which most influenced perceptions of the Americas at the French court of François I.
