Tides Of Change On Grand Manan Island

Download or read book Tides of Change on Grand Manan Island written by Joan Marshall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In less than a decade, the island community has faced the degradation of the wild fishery and rapid growth of aquaculture, an increasing presence of multinational corporations, new federal initiatives with respect to aboriginal policies, and widespread social dysfunction. Joan Marshall uses over twelve years of intensive ethnographic research to chart the nature and pace of social and cultural change on Grand Manan, showing how it relates to globalization and environmental degradation, as well as to a confluence of outside sources.