catalogue - summer 2015

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Patching Peace:Women’s Civil Society Organising in Northern Irelandby Katherine Side

isbn 978-1-894725-23-1 | paperback | 304 pages | $28.95

Patching Peace raises key questions about the expectations placed on civil society or-ganisations in the ongoing and complex processes of conflict transformation during the post-Good Friday Agreement period in Northern Ireland. Its focus is a case study of the Moyle Women’s Forum (1999-2004) — an all-women, cross-community organisa-tion in the Moyle District, County Antrim.

Although the inclusion of women’s civil society organisations appears to “cor-rect” historical gendered exclusion, this book demonstrates that such inclusion in officially delineated spaces is insufficient to ensure either women’s participation or a recognition of their contributions. Moreover, their involvement can subject women’s civil society organisations to re-gimes of governmentality, shaped by persistent gender stereotypes. The author

argues that women’s civil society efforts should, instead, actively adopt a “patchwork- like” approach that intentionally extends beyond the limited spaces into which they are invited.

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Looking Out for the Lads: Community Action and the Provision of Youth Services in an Urban Irish Parish

Gaetz 0-919666-90-6 $27.95 256 pages paper(1997)

Belonging: Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures

Cohen 0-919666-40-X $26.95 336 pages cloth(1982)

The One Blood: Kinship and Class in an Irish Village

Leyton 0-919666-10-8 $19.95 110 pages paper(1975)

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Moccasin Tracks: A Memoir of Mi’kmaw Life in Newfoundlandby John Nick Jeddore, Elder


“I am of the land. I am Indian.”John Nick Jeddore’s richly detailed memoir begins when he was a boy in the 1920s and 1930s. His historical account makes a ma-jor contribution to our understanding of life “on the country” and in Conne River, Bay D’Espoir, as well as what it was like to be confined to a tuberculosis sanatorium and to serve overseas in the Forestry Service during WWII. John Nick recounts a life-time of following in his ancestors’ footsteps and reflects on his attempts to reconcile that heritage with a changing social and cultural world. His book will serve as an important legacy for many generations of scholars and general readers.


I Never Knowed it Was Hard: Memoirs of a Labrador Trapper

Montague 978-1-894725-12-5 $19.95 184 pages paper(2013)

Bringing Home Animals: Mistissini Hunters of Northern Quebec, 2nd edtion

Tanner 978-1-894725-14-9 $24.95 320 pages paper (2014)

History and Renewal of Labrador’s Inuit-Métis

Kennedy (ed.)

978-1-894725-15-6 $24.95 224 pages paper(2014)

Remembering the Years of My Life: Journeys of a Labrador Inuit Hunter

Maggo 0-919666-95-7 $22.95 188 pages paper(1999)

Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old

Briggs 0-919666-96-5 $31.95 300 pages paper(1998)

summer 2015

An Extraordinary Ordinary Man:The Life Story of Edgar Houseby Doug and Adrian House, with a foreword by Bob Cole


This book recounts the life story of St. John’s native Edgar House, told in his own words in 1999. An introduction by his son—the sociologist Doug House—sit-uates Edgar’s life story in the context of 20th century Newfoundland society and memoir literature. Edgar lived through the major historical events of the 20th centu-ry in Newfoundland, from World War I to Confederation with Canada. He knew and tells anecdotes about many famous Newfoundlanders, such as Joey Small-wood and Bob Cole. He was an esteemed educator, athlete, health administrator, and volunteer. Edgar’s wonderful memory and quirky sense of humour shine through in his many different stories about childhood in St. John’s in the 1910s, summers in Trin-ity, Buchans in the 1940s, sports, teaching, Rotary International, and everyday life in

the city. A product of his time and social environment he, in turn, influenced many others through his purposeful, engaged life. Edgar House was truly an extraordinary ordinary man.




The Diary of Bishop Edward Feild in 1844

Rompkey 978-1-894725-10-1 $19.95 124 pages paper(2010)



Fish Versus Oil: Resources and Rural Development in North Atlantic Society

House 0-919666-48-5 $19.95 210 pages paper(1986)

The Challenge of Oil: Newfoundland’s Quest for Controlled Development

House 0-919666-46-9 $24.95 344 pages paper(1985)

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2013

Place Peripheral: Place-Based Development in Rural, Island and Remote Regionsedited by Kelly Vodden, Ryan Gibson, and Godfrey Baldacchino


Place Peripheral examines community and regional development in rural, island, and remote locales from a place-based approach. This is a timely edited collection, addressing themes that are receiving considerable attention in Canada and internationally as local communities, scholars, researchers and public policy analysts strive to better understand and apply place-based strategies in rural and remote regions. The volume and its con-tributors examine place-based economic development strategies, recognizing the broader and deeper significance, mean-ings, and attachments often associated with place and also interrogating such relationships as may exist between sense of place, cultural and social development, and environmental stewardship.


Remote Control: Governance Lessons for and from Small, Insular, and Remote Regions

Baldacchino, Greenwood, and Felt (eds)

978-1-894725-08-8 29.95 328 pages paper(2009)

Power and Restructuring: Canada’s Coastal Society and Environment

Sinclair and Ommer (eds.)

1-894725-04-2 $31.95 336 pages paper(2006)

Global Game, Local Arena: Restructur-ing in Corner Brook, Newfoundland

Norcliffe 1-894725-03-4 $27.95 248 pages paper(2005)

The Resilient Outport: Ecology, Econo-my, and Society in Rural Newfoundland

Ommer (ed.) 0-919666-83-3 $28.95 360 pages paper(2002)

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Bringing Home Animals:Mistissini Hunters of Northern Quebec, 2nd Editionby Adrian Tanner, winner of the 2013 Weaver-Tremblay Award

isbn 978-1-894725-14-9 | paperback | 320 pages + 16 page photo insert | $24.95

An ISER Books’ bestseller, updated! Bringing Home Animals details what the author learned as a result of travelling and working with Iinuu (Cree) hunters from Mistissini in Northern Quebec in 1968–69, providing a rich illustration of subsistence hunting in an Indigenous territory. The second edition builds on the original argument by providing an extensive update about the current situation in the region, and adds new illustrative material includ-ing stunning colour photographs. Bringing Home Animals explores the way of life of the Mistissini Iinuu, including the ecology of the hunting grounds, the organization of social space, rites of hunting divina-tion, religious ideology, and ritual relations between hunters and animals. It is relevant to current work in Indigenous Studies, alternative economies and food sover-

eignty, traditional or local ecological knowledge, religious studies, space and place, and animal studies.






Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old

Briggs 0-919666-96-5 $31.95 300 pages paper(1998)

Indigenous Peoples and the Nation- State: Fourth World Politics in Canada, Australia and Norway

Dyck (ed.) 0-919666-44-2 $19.95 264 pages paper(1985)

The Politics of Indianness: Case Studies of Native Ethnopolitics in Canada

Tanner (ed.) 0-919666-42-6 $19.95 333 pages paper(1983)

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History and Renewal of Labrador’s Inuit-Métisedited by John C. Kennedy


This collection of essays presents new research on the archaeology, history, and contemporary adaptations of Inuit-Métis of central and southeastern Labrador from Lake Melville south to Chateau Bay. It reports on results from “Understand-ing the Past to Build the Future,” a Com-munity-University Research Alliance (CURA) funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Contributing authors include veteran Labrador Studies special-ists as well as emerging scholars. Many of their findings challenge longstanding assumptions about Labrador’s Aboriginal history. The editor, ethnographer and historical anthropologist John C. Kenne-dy, is author of several books, including Holding the Line: Ethnic Boundaries in a Northern Labrador Community.




A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the Innu

Samson 0-919666-99-X $29.95 390 pages paper(2003)

The People of Sheshatshit: In the Land of the Innu

Mailhot 0-919666-42-6 $19.95 208 pages paper(2001)



Quest for Equity: Norway and the Saami Challenge

Thuen 0-919666-86-8 $31.95 320 pages paper(1995)

Holding the Line: Ethnic Boundaries in a Northern Labrador Community

Kennedy 0-919666-39-6 $19.95 186 pages paper(1982)

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2013

French Visitors to Newfoundland:An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Travel WritingsEdited by Scott Jamieson and Anne Thareau

isbn 978-1-894725-13-2 | paperback | 312 pages | $29.95 retail

From the early 1800s on, we encounter the first French writers to become interested in life in Newfoundland. This anthology provides an image of Newfoundland that was shaped over many years of writings by countless French voyagers—sailors and naval officers, journalists, artists, and other visitors—who described this region and its people for their readers back in France. This collection of their accounts attempts to capture the perception held by French visitors of Newfoundland’s transformation from colony to country, of Newfoundlanders and their lifestyles, and of the development of Newfoundland’s own political institutions and the changes brought about as France relin-quished its historical rights to the English.

I Never Knowed It Was Hard Memoirs of a Labrador Trapper

by Louie Montague, edited by Elizabeth Dawson

isbn 978-1-894725-12-5 | paperback | 184 pages + 16 page photo insert | $19.95 retail

I Never Knowed It Was Hard, the memoirs of Naskaupi River trapper and fiddler Louie Montague, a 77-year-old Nunatsiavut (Inuit) elder from North West River, Labrador, recounts in rich detail the way of life in “them days.” While Louie’s story tells about and draws from the past—his Great-Grandfather Montague came to Labrador from the Orkney Islands in the nineteenth century—he is very much a man of the present: he still goes to the land whenever he can; he remains busy as an accomplished craftsman; and he is deeply aware of how changes to the land have affected the present and will impact the future. He also describes the changes in life with the coming of the Goose Bay Air Base in the 1940s and his jobs there and elsewhere over the years.

fall 2015 complete backlist

Title ISBN/format Author(s) Date Retail Price

Advocacy and Anthropology: First Encounters 0-919666-50-7 Paine (ed.) 1985 19.95

Ancient People of Port au Choix: The Excavation of an Archaic Indian Cemetery in Newfoundland

0-919666-12-4 Tuck 1976 19.95

Belonging: Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures

0-919666-40-X Cohen (ed.) 1982 26.95

Blood and Nerves: An Ethographic Focus on Menopause

0-919666-41-8 Davis 1983 19.95

Bloody Decks and a Bumper Crop: The Rhetoric of Sealing Counter-Protest

0-919666-35-3 Lamson 1979 12.95

Bringing Home Animals: Mistissini Hunters of Northern Quebec, 2nd edition

978-1-894725-14-9 Tanner 2014 24.95

Brothers and Rivals: Patrilocality in Savage Cove 0-919666-20-5 Firestone 1967 12.95

Bureaucracy and World View: Studies in the Logic of Official Interpretation

0-919666-15-9 Handelman and Leyton

1978 19.95

Cain’s Land Revisited: Culture Change in Central Labrador, 1775–1972

0-919666-11-6 Zimmerly 1975 19.95

Cat Harbour: A Newfoundland Fishing Settlement 0-919666-03-5 Farris 1972 19.95

The Challenge of Oil: Newfoundland’s Quest for Controlled Development

0-919666-46-9 House 1985 24.95

Communities in Decline: An Examination of Household Resettlement in Newfoundland

0-919666-21-3 Iverson and Matthews 1968 12.95

The Compact: Selected Dimensions of Friendship 0-919666-08-6 Leyton (ed.) 1974 19.95

Consequences of Offshore Oil and Gas — Norway, Scotland and Newfoundland

0-919666-18-3 Scarlett (ed.) 1977 19.95

Cows Don’t Know It’s Sunday: Agricultural Life in St. John’s

0-919666-53-1 Chaulk Murray 2002 31.95

Craftsman-Client Contracts: Interpersonal Relations in a Newfoundland Fishing Community

0-919666-01-9 Chiaramonte 1970 14.95

Dangling Lines: The Fisheries Crisis and the Future of Coastal Communities: The Norwegian Experience

0-919666-85-X Jentoft 1993 27.95

The Decay of Trade: An Economic History of the Newfoundland Saltfish Trade, 1935–1965

0-919666-16-7 Alexander 1977 19.95

Despite This Loss: Essays on Culture, Memory and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador

978-1-894725-09-5 Kelly and Yeoman (eds.)

2010 26.95

The Diary of Bishop Edward Feild in 1844 978-1-894725-10-1 Romkey (ed.) 2010 19.95

Dire Straights: The Dilemmas of a Fishery, The Case of Digby Neck and the Islands

0-919666-64-7 Davis 1991 27.95

Enclosing the Commons: Individual Transferable Quotas in the Nova Scotia Fishery

0-919666-87-6 Apostle, McCay, and Mikalsen

2002 27.95

Finding Our Sea Legs: Linking Fishery People and Their Knowledge with Science and Management

0-919666-98-1 Nies and Felt (eds.) 2000 27.95

Fish Versus Oil: Resources and Rural Development in North Atlantic Society

0-919666-48-5 House (ed.) 1986 19.95

Fisherman, Logger, Merchant, Miner: Social Change and Industrialism in Three Newfoundland Communities

0-919666-22-1 Philbrook 1966 12.95

Fishing for Truth: A Sociological Analysis of Northern Cod Stock Assessments from 1977 to 1990

0-919666-79-5 Finlayson 1994 27.95

Folksongs and Folk Revival: The Cultural Politics of Kenneth Peacock’s Songs of the Newfoundland Outports

978-1-894725-06-4 Kearney Guigné 2008 29.95

French Visitors to Newfoundland: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Travel Writings

978-1-894725-13-2 Jamieson and Thareau (trans.)

2013 29.95

From Traps to Draggers: Domestic Commodity Pro-duction in Northwest Newfoundland, 1850–1982

0-919666-47-7 Sinclair 1985 19.95

Global Game, Local Arena: Restructuring in Corner Brook, Newfoundland

1-894725-03-4 Norcliffe 2005 27.95

History and Renewal of Labrador’s Inuit-Métis 978-1-894725-15-6 Kennedy (ed.) 2014 24.95

Holding the Line: Ethnic Boundaries in a Northern Labrador Community

0-919666-39-6 Kennedy 1982 19.95

Hostage to Fortune: Bantry Bay and the Encounter with Gulf Oil

0-919666-61-2 Eipper 1989 23.95

A House Divided? Anthropological Studies of Factionalism

0-919666-13-2 Silverman and Salis-vury (eds.)

1977 19.95


978-1-894725-12-5 Montague 2013 19.95

Indigenous Peoples and the Nation-State: Fourth World Politics in Canada, Australia and Noway

0-919666-44-2 Dyck (ed.) 1985 19.95

Inuit Mortality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old

0-919666-94-9 Briggs 1998 40.95

Just Fish: Ethics and Canadian Marine Fisheries 0-919666-97-3 Coward, Ommer, and Pitcher (eds.)

2000 27.95

Kindness, Kinship, and Tradition in Newfoundland/Alberta Migration

978-1-894725-11-8 Palmer, Groom, and Brandon

2012 24.95

Labour and Working-Class History in Atlantic Canada: A Reader

0-919666-78-7 Frank and Kealey (eds.)1995 31.95

Language and Poverty: The Persistence of Scottish Gaelic in Eastern Canada

0-919666-62-0 Foster 1988 23.95

Listen While I Tell You: A Story of the Jews in St. John’s, Newfoundland

0-919666-55-8 Kahn 1987 26.95

Literacy for Living: A Study of Literacy and Cultural Context in a Rural Canadian Community

0-919666-92-2 Fagan 1998 27.95

Living in a Material World: Canadian and American Approaches to Material Culture

0-919666-67-1 Pocius 1991 31.95

Living on the Edge: The Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland

0-919666-84-1 Felt and Sinclair (eds.) 1995 27.95

Looking Out for the Lads: Community Action and the Provision of Youth Services in an Urban Irish Parish

0-919666-90-6 Gaetz 1997 27.95

Making a World of Difference: Essays on Tourism, Culture and Development in Newfoundland

0-919666-73-6 Overton 1996 27.95

Makkovik: Eskimos and Settlers in a Labrador Community

0-919666-24-8 Ben-Dor 1966 15.95

The Management of Myths: The Politics of Legitimation in a Newfoundland Community

0-919666-09-4 Cohen 1975 19.95

Manpower and Educational Development in Newfoundland

0-919666-29-9 Mensinkai and Dalvi 1971 12.95

Marginal Adaptations and Modernization in Newfoundland: A Study of Strategies and Implications of Resettlement and Redevelopment of Outport Fishing Communities

0-919666-25-6 Wadel 1969 12.95

Midwives in Passage: The Modernisation of Maternity Care

0-919666-70-1 Benoit 1991 27.95

spring 2015Minorities and Mother Country Imagery 0-919666-43-4 Gold (ed.) 1984 19.95

Narratives at Work: Women, Men, Unionization, and the Fashioning of Identities

0-919666-54-X Cullum 2003 31.95

The Native Game: Settler Perceptions of Indian/ Settler Relations in Central Labrador

0-919666-63-9 Plaice 1990 21.95

Newfoundland Fishermen in the Age of Industry: A Sociology of Economic Dualism

0-919666-04-3 Brox 1972 17.95

North Atlantic Fishermen: Anthropological Essays on Modern Fishing

0-919666-02-7 Andersen and Wadel (eds.)

1972 19.95

The Northern Route: An Ethnography of Refugee Experiences

0-919666-68-X Gilad 1990 24.95

The One Blood: Kinship and Class in an Irish Village 0-919666-10-8 Leyton 1975 19.95

Patrons and Brokers in the East Arctic 0-919666-51-5 Paine (ed.) 1971 19.95

The People of Sheshatshit: In the Land of the Innu 0-919666-88-4 Mailhot 1997 24.95

A Place in the Sun: Shetland and Oil — Myths and Reality

0-919666-69-8 Wills 1991 31.95

Place Names of the Northern Peninsula 0-919666-74-4 Hollett and Kirwin (eds)

2000 27.95

Politically Speaking: Cross-Cultural Studies of Rhetoric

0-919666-37-X Paine (ed.) 1981 26.95

The Politics of Indianness: Case Studies of Native Ethnopolitics in Canada

0-919666-42-6 Tanner (ed.) 1983 19.95

Port O’Call: Memories of the Portuguese White Fleet in St. John’s, Newfoundland

0-919666-80-9 Doel 1992 21.95

Power and Restructuring: Canada’s Coastal Society and Environment

1-894725-04-2 Sinclair and Ommer (eds.)

2006 31.95

Power Begins at the Cod End: The Newfoundland Trawlermen’s Strike, 1974–75

0-919666-38-8. Macdonald 1980 19.95

Predictions Under Uncertainty: Fish Assemblage and Food Webs on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland

0-919666-81-7 do Carmo Gomes 1993 27.95

Private Cultures and Public Imagery: Interpersonal Relations in a Newfoundland Peasant Society

0-919666-26-4 Szwed 1966 19.95

A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe

0-919666-59-0 Brookes 1988 23.95

Public Policy and Community Protest: The Fogo Case 0-919666-27-2 DeWitt 1969 12.95

Pursuing Equality: Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador

0-919666-77-9 Kealey (ed.) 1993 27.95

Quest for Equity: Norway and Saami Challenge 0-919666-86-8 Thuen 1995 31.95

A Question of Survival: The Fisheries and Newfoundland Society

0-919666-58-2 Sinclair (ed.) 1988 23.95

Remembering the Years of My Life : Journeys of a Labrador Inuit Hunter

0-919666-95-7 Maggo, Brice-Bennett 1999 22.95

Remote Control: Governance Lessons for and from Small, Insular, and Remote Regions

978-1-894725-08-8 Baldacchino, Greenwood, and Felt

2009 29.95

The Resilient Outport: Ecology, Economy, and Society in Rural Newfoundland

0-919666-83-3 Ommer (ed.) 2002 28.95

Rough Food: The Seasons of Subsistence in Northern Newfoundland

0-919666-82-5 Omohundro 1994 31.95

Sanctuary Denied: Refugees from the Third Reich and Newfoundland Immigration Policy, 1906–1919

0-919666-75-2 Bassler 1992 27.95

Saying Isn’t Believing: Conversation, Narrative and the Discourse of Belief in a French Newfoundland Community

0-919666-66-3 Butler 1990 27.95

Sea Change: A Shetland Society, 1970–79 0-919666-49-3 Byron 1986 19.95

Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland 0-919666-71-X Rieti 1991 27.95

Talking Violence: An Anthropological Interpretation of Conversation in the City

0-919666-56-6 Rapport 1987 21.95

Terranova: The Ethos and Luck of Deep-Sea Fishermen 0-919666-36-1 Zulaika 1981 19.95

A Time of Reckoning: The Politics of Discourse in Rural Ireland

0-919666-89-2 Peace 1997 27.95

To Each His Own: William Coaker and the Fishermen’s Protective Union in Newfoundland Politics, 1908–1925

1-894725-01-8 McDonald, Hiller (ed.) 1987 26.95

To Employ and Uplift Them: The Newfoundland Naval Reserve, 1899–1926

978-1-894725-07-1 Hunter 2009 24.95

To Work and to Weep: Women in Fishing Economies 0-919666-60-4 Nadel-Klein and Davis (eds.)

1988 23.95

Viewpoints on Communities in Crisis 0-919666-28-0 Skolnik (ed.) 1968 9.95

Violence and Public Anxiety: A Canadian Case 0-919666-65-5 Leyton, O’Grady and Overton

1992 27.95

Voices from Off Shore: Narratives of Risk and Danger in the Nova Scotian Deep-Sea Fishery

0-919666-76-0 Binkley 1994 27.95

A Way of Life That Does Not Exist: Canada and the Extinguishment of the Innu

0-919666-99-X Samson 2003 29.95

What Do They Call a Fisherman? 1-894725-02-6 Gerarda Power 2005 27.95

What is the Indian ‘Problem’: Tutelage and Resistance in Canadian Indian Administration

0-919666-72-8 Dyck 1991 27.95

The White Arctic: Anthropological Essays Tutelage and Ethnicity

0-919666-14-0 Paine (ed.) 1977 26.95

You Never Know What They Might Do: Mental Illness in Outport Newfoundland

0-919666-19-1 Dinham 1977 12.95

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