The Department of Anthropology includes sociocultural anthropology,
archaeology and
physical anthropology; the latter two groups have their own research
facilities on campus. The research interests of the department
centre largely, but by no means exclusively, on the North Atlantic.
However, South Asia, Melanesia, Europe and the Canadian Arctic
are also foci for our faculty. Topically, research interests include
political economy, social inequality, symbolic/structure anthropology,
ritual, emotional patterns, rural and native socioeconomic adaptations,
violence, Christianity, gender studies, hunter-gatherer studies,
historic archaeology, ethnoarchaeology and paleoethnobotany.
BRIGGS, Jean L. Professor
Keywords
• Inuit psychology (values, cognition, emotions, socialization);
Inuktitut (language); Inuit culture change
Current research
• Modern Inuit socialization practices and play
• Inuktitut dictionaries; Utkuhikhalingmiutitut and Qipisamiutitut
dialects
• Inuit culture change
Past research
• Emotional socialization (including values) of Inuit children
• Interpersonal psychology in Inuit camp settlements
Potential research
• Value socialization and family relations in Siberian Yupik
villages in Russia and Alaska
FIFE, Wayne Associate professor
Keywords
• Qualitative research methods; tourism; education; missionaries;
Newfoundland; Europe; Pacific Islands; developing societies
Current research
• Tourism in Newfoundland and Labrador
• National parks
• Qualitative research methods
Past research
• Education in less-developed countries
• Missionaries and colonialism in the Pacific Islands
• Aging in institutions and settings
Potential research
• Education in cultural context
• Tourism impact studies
• National and provincial parks, past and present
KENNEDY, John Professor
Keywords
• Sociocultural; Labrador; coastal communities; ethnopolitics;
regional development; settlers; Inuit; Mexico; Norway
Current research
• Analysis and writing on 1995 field data from Arnoy, northern
Norway
Past research
• Inuit and settler ethnicity in northern Labrador
• Ethnographic and archival research on southeastern Labrador
• Integration of biomedical and traditional medical care
in Mexico
• Fishery and community development in Arnoy, northern Norway
Potential research
• Anthropological history of Labrador
Other research and consulting
• Relations between (Labrador) aboriginal peoples and government
NEMEC, Thomas F. Associate professor
Keywords
• Sociocultural anthropology; ethnohistory; community studies;
cultural ecology; Newfoundland; history of sociocultural anthropology
Current research
• History, ecology and organization of St. Shotts, St. Mary's
Bay, inshore fishery
• Impact of marine disasters on Newfoundland outport communities
• History of anthropological research conducted on the Island
of Newfoundland, prior to 1970
Past research
• Ethnohistory and ethnography of a Newfoundland Irish outport
• Formal, local organization of Newfoundland communities
• Genetic and genealogical analysis of Trepassey Bay communities
• Archive of undergraduate research on Newfoundland society
and culture
Potential research
• Life histories of outport Newfoundlanders
POPE, Peter Professor
Keywords
• Maritime historical anthropology; historical archaeology;
early modern Newfoundland settlement; Fisheries; Wine trade; Consumer
demand
Current research
• Waterfront archaeology, St. John's, Newfoundland
• David Kirke and 17th - century English settlement in Newfoundland
• Early modern mariner's economic culture
Past research
• Interpretive historiography of John Cabot's voyage, 1497
• Seventeenth-century consumption patterns, wine and tobacco
• Ferryland, early modern ceramics (pottery)
Potential research
• Sixteenth-century shore-based fishery in Newfoundland
• Comparative analysis of 17th - century British and French
trade goods
• Planters' civil fortification, 1704-08, St. John's, Newfoundland
STEWART, Dorothy Correspondence lecturer, continuing
education
Keywords
• Popular cultures; media; offshore oil; Mi'Kmaq; Internet;
West Africa; Rwanda; Northern Ireland; Portugal
Current research
• Canadian television programming and industry
• Television fans and their use of the Internet
Past research
• Media and popular culture
• Television soap operas
• Social impacts of offshore oil development
• Women in Newfoundland's offshore oil industry
• Women's employment in Newfoundland
• Development work in West Africa: the aftermath of the Rwanda
genocide; Northern Ireland: Portugal's Grand Banks fishery
Potential research
• Dogs in popular culture and therapy
• Mi'Kmaq of Newfoundland ethnographic and historical research
TANNER, Adrian Professor
Keywords
• Canadian Aboriginal people; Fiji; religion and ritual;
subsistence economies; land tenure; ethnic politics; Aboriginal
nationalism; social structure; hunting peoples; Newfoundland Mi'Kmaq
Current research
• Religion and social healing in northern Quebec and Labrador
• Subsistence and ceremonialism in highland Viti Levu, Fiji
• Algonquian conceptualizations of nature
Past research
• Aboriginal governance in northern parts of provinces
• Land tenure of northern aboriginal hunters
• Economics and religion of northern Algonquian hunters
Potential research
• Impact of colonization on western highlands, Viti Levu,
Fiji
• Impact of forestry on northern Algonquian hunters
• Use of video in ethnographic research
TUCK, Jim Professor
Keywords
• Historic and pre-historic archaeology of eastern and northern
North America
Current research
• Early Europeans in Ferryland, 1500-1696
Past research
• Red Bay, Saglek, Port aux Choix
SCHUURMAN, Hedda Sessional
Keywords
• Aboriginal self-government; Native school control; political
and cultural change among the Labrador Innu; Aboriginal education;
concept of community among the Labrador Innu; relocation in Davis
Inlet
Current research
• Culture in Native education curriculum
• Labrador Innu and Inuit history
• Teaching aboriginal issues
Past research
• Aboriginal self-government
• Relocations among the Labrador Innu
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