Micmac -- Economic conditions, Micmac, Ethnology -- Nova Scotia 

"Until recently, historians and ethnographers ignored the differential effects of Western "modernization" or the introduction of Western technological and economic patterns on men and women in non-European cultures. While this differential effect is observed in rapidly modernizing societies in the twentieth century, it has not been examined for New World cultures which first felt European contact centuries ago. This dissertation, by using ethnohistoric and ethnographic data, will describe the transformation of male and female economic roles for the Micmac of Nova Scotia as they experienced the dominant Euro-Canadian culture over a four hundred year period. From the Micmac case study, it will be demonstrated that "modernization" is one step in the process of economic differentiation between men and women and that this process is determined by various factors of economic differentiation for any given ethnohistoric period." -- page vi. 

157 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.