Male and Female. In a pair: the emotional atmosphere following a death and its intersection with gender and with public and semi-public space in Newfoundland through the 1960s and 1970s

• Main Author: Lafferty, Anne
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2011
• Subjects: Conche; Griquet; St. Lunaire; St. Lunaire-Griquet; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/10838/; https://research.library.mun.ca/10838/1/Lafferty_Anne.pdf

This thesis considers the emotional atmosphere in the first few days following a death and the customs that expressed and partially created that atmosphere in Newfoundland, during the twentieth century, up through the demise of the house wake. Geographically, the thesis focuses primarily on the area...