AbstractsAnthropology

Migration and the French Canadian extended family.

by Peter. C. Pineo




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Anthropology.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1957
Keywords: Anthropology.
Record ID: 1539662
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile111278.pdf


Abstract

This thesis, dealing with the migration and kinship structure of contemporary French Canada, presents the results of eleven months' work by an anthropologist. It is self-consciously written within a certain theoretical framework or tradition, which can be codified under two words: culture and function. In the first place, this means that I expected, throughout doing the work, to find a variation in both structure and character between the French Canadian norm and that of ether societies. This expectation, or assumption, is the core of the cultural approach; ether postulates, such as that culture is learned, follow from the observation of difference.