TY - BOOK ID - 134710270 TI - Observing the Outports : Describing Newfoundland Culture, 1950-1980 PY - 2018 SN - 1442625325 1442625317 PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Memorial University of Newfoundland KW - History. KW - Newfoundland and Labrador KW - Historiography. KW - Civilization KW - Study and teaching KW - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134710270 AB - 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. ER -