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Research opportunities for students

range from participant observation in the Newfoundland fish harvesting (above) and fish processing industries (below),

to the study of traditional Newfoundland winter activities,

to religion,

to ethnohistorical interviewing and archival research about life in Newfoundland long before it was part of Canada,

to the study of how the production of crafts, such as knitting, allow elderly women to remain vital to the economic well-being of their communities,

to how the thriving traditional music scene on “George Street” in St. John’s, Newfoundland (below left) includes such unique traditional Newfoundland instruments as this “ugly stick,” (below right)

to the ability of both nature-based and cultural heritage tourism to stimulate the economy,

to the many dimensions of local ecological knowledge

to . . . traditional Newfoundland rituals such as “Mumming.”

revised: spring 2009    Copyright © 2004 The Curators of the University of Missouri
Craig Palmer :: Department of Anthropology :: College of Arts and Science :: University of Missouri
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