Changing ecologic adaptation in a Newfoundland fishing community

• Main Author: Weatherburn, Maryl
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1971
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/7233/; https://research.library.mun.ca/7233/1/Weatherburn_Maryl.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/7233/3/Weatherburn_Maryl.pdf

Changing ecologic adaptation in Grand Bruit, an isolated Newfoundland fishing outport is analyzed from a holistic and historic viewpoint. Such changing adaptation is explained in terms of changing limitations and opportunities, that is stresses, in the ecosystem composed of the outport society and culture and its biophysical environment. -- Changes in the use of subsistence activities versus activities involving exchange for cash, and changes in consumption pattern are presented. Several adaptative strategies (mobility, cognition, the preservation of food, the use of energy and time, generalization, specialization, and the notion of property and rights to resources) are discussed, and changes in these described.