Culture Loss And Culture Change Among The Micmac Of The Canadian Maritime Provinces 1912-1950

Probably every young anthropologist at the end of his first field work, breaking reluctantly an identification, however illusory, with a people and a place he feels aro now in a sense his own, resolves to return in, say, twenty-five years and see how lifo has turned out at his particular jungle, desert, or coast. Twenty-five years seems to him agood span to pick; it approximates his current age, has the impressive sound of quarter-contury, and is the farthest durability that he can conceive for the capacity to function normally as scientist and as man.