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Over the past decade, social psychological research in East Asian countries has blossomed. Much of the research was directed toward testing the generalizability of theories and findings from North American psychology to the eastern context. Numerous consequential differences were identified. These cross-cultural differences have many important implications for social identity, social cognition, and interpersonal behavior. The 10th volume of the Ontario Symposia on Personality and Social Psychology focuses on East-West cultural differences and similarities and how this research can be applied to cross-cultural studies in general.

Culture and Social Behavior covers a range of topics from differences in basic cognitive processes to broad level cultural syndromes that pervade social arrangements, laws, and public representations. Leading researchers in the study of culture and psychology describe their work and their current perspective on the important questions facing the field. Pioneers in the field such as Harry Triandis and Michael Bond present their work, along with those who represent some newer approaches to the study of culture. Richard E. Nisbett concludes the book by discussing the historical development of the field and an examination of which aspects of culture are universal and which are culture-specific. By illustrating both the diversity and vitality of research on the psychology of culture and social behavior, the editors hope this volume will stimulate further research from psychologists of many cultural traditions.

Understanding cultural differences is now more important than ever due to their potential to spark conflict, violence, and aggression. As such, this volume is a "must have" for cultural researchers including those in social, cultural, and personality psychology, and interpersonal, cultural, and political communication, anthropology, and sociology. ... Read more

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Don Owen, perhaps best known as the director of the seminal 1964 feature Nobody Waved Goodbye, is one of the central figures in the development of English-Canadian cinema. Owen spent much of his career at the National Film Board of Canada, oscillating between short documentary films (including Runner, Cowboy and Indian, and You Don’t Back Down) and feature-length works such as The Ernie Game, which sparked a scandal in Parliament; the innovative, Godard-influenced featurette Notes for a Film about Donna and Gail; and Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen, a portrait of the poet co-directed with Donald Brittain. Don Owen: Notes on a Filmmaker and His Culture is the first book-length treatment of themes and motifs in Owen’s work, Steve Gravestock situates Owen within a cultural context while focusing on the development of the English-Canadian film industry in the 1960s and beyond. The book includes interviews with Owen and many of his principal collaborators. ... Read more

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The forerunner of today's book clubs, nineteenth-century literary societies provided a lively social and intellectual forum where people could gather and discuss books, cultural affairs, and current events.In Come, bright Improvement! Heather Murray explores the literary societies of Ontario between 1820 and 1900 - some of which are still in existence today - and examines the extent to which they mirrored or challenged contemporary social, political, and intellectual trends.

Based on a wealth of original research with periodicals and local archival materials, Murray traces the evolution from early political and debating clubs to more dedicated literary and cultural societies, such as Shakespeare or Browning groups.Many people formed literary societies, including workers, women, Black fugitives, and members of religious denominations such as Quakers and Methodists.Murray studies the societies in detail, exploring everything from the reading materials they favoured to the other kinds of social and civic activities in which they participated.

Of additional interest to scholars of book history if the book's resource guide, which records the location, history, and archival deposits of several hundred societies.A first in the study of the book club phenomenon, Come, bright Improvement! is a wonderful introduction to nineteenth-century Ontario, the history of book studies, and the history of reading.

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CAPITUALIZING THE ESSENCE OF THE CANADIAN WORKING CLASS CULT
After completing the book, I have examined the contents closely, discovering that Thomas Dunk has captured the essence of the working class male. It is refreshing to read and study the social-class interactions and bonding that so stratify the working class male. It is the research for my Sociology 361 Class, and thereby intended that we examine closely the relationships and class structures. I consider the book an easy and enjoyable read, enlightning and educational, even for the novice to ethnographical studies. ... Read more

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North America's museums are treasured for their collections of Aboriginal ethnographic and archaeological objects. Yet stories of how these artefacts were acquired often reveal unethical acts and troubling chains of possession, as well as unexpected instances of collaboration. For instance, archaeological excavation of Aboriginal graves was so prevalent in the late-eighteenth century that the government of Upper Canada legislated against it, although this did little to stop the practice. Many objects were collected by non-Native outsiders to preserve cultures perceived to be nearing extinction, while other objects were donated or sold by the same Native communities that later demanded their return. Some Native people collected for museums and even created their own. Providing a comprehensive overview of anthropological collecting in Ontario between 1791 and 1914, Collections and Objections details the complicated relationships between Euro-Canadian and Native cultures, the numerous ways in which Aboriginal objects were acquired, and the motives behind their collection.The concluding chapter connects historical practices of collecting to present day debates over the stewardship of Aboriginal material culture in Canada and the United States. A remarkable look at the relationships between the public, historical societies, governments, professional anthropologists, and various Native communities, Collections and Objections explores the legacy of interest in Aboriginal heritage. ... Read more

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"No Burden to Carry exquisitely weaves the threads of autobiography and history into flexible and meaningful relationship. Never again will I be at a loss for names of Black women who have stood at the junctions of Canadian History." - Angela Y. Davis ... Read more

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Our perception of women's roles has changed dramatically since 1945. In this collection Joy Parr has brought together ten studies from a variety of disciplines examining changing ideas about women.

Mariana Valverde writes about teenage girls in the immediate postwar years and finds that stereotypes of a supposedly simple, secure, politically quiescent, and sexually conformist life do not really hold. Joy Parr follows women shoppers of the early 1950s, in their sometimes comical encounters with male designers, manufacturers, and retailers, in search of the tools and totems of modernity for their homes. Increasingly these homes were in suburban subdivisions, whose pleasures and possibilities for women Veronica Strong-Boag reconsiders. Joan Sangster reminds us that wage-earning mothers were numerous in the fifties and sixties, and through a juxtaposition of their own stories with contemporary studies tells much about these self-denying women's lives. Franca Iacovetta discusses the experiences of immigrant and refugee women in northwestern and south-central Ontario, experiences that were interpreted through their starkly different European wartime memories. Based upon her work among the rural women of southwestern Ontario, Nora Cebotarev charts the changes that transformed farm families and finances from the sixties to the eighties. Ester Reiter compares the recollections of women who had worked together during the 1960s in an auto parts plant in the Niagara Peninsula with contemporary newspaper accounts of a strike, and leads us into a complex narrative of gender and militancy. Nancy Adamson reconsiders the diversity of feminist organizing within the province over the decades since second-wave feminism began; she tracks the different needs and paths that brought women to the women's liberation movement and the ways in which their feminist analysis arose from their experience as community activists. Linda Cardinal writes about Franco-Ontarian women, charting the ways in which feminist activists challenged and were challenged as they worked with traditional farm and church-based women's groups in northern and eastern Ontario. Marlene Brant Castellano and Janice Hill introduce us to four aboriginal women: Edna Manitowabi, Jeannette Corbiere Lavell, Sylvia Maracle, and Emily Faries, whose work has been to reclaim and build upon the knowledge and responsibilities long entrusted to the women of Ontario's First Nations. ... Read more

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Based on a long-term ethnographic and historical study of French-language minority education in Ontario (Canada), Heller addresses a range of issues of interest to those concerned with minority languages, and in particular minority language education. These issues include the role of language ideologies, language practices (especially language choice), and policies regarding language and schooling, in the unfolding of ideas about identity and of relations of power. ... Read more

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Europeans in the nineteenth century were fascinated with the wild and the primitive. So compelling was the craving for a first-hand experience of wilderness that it provided a lasting foundation for tourism as a consumer industry. In this book, Patricia Jasen shows how the region now known as Ontario held special appeal for tourists seeking to indulge a passion for wild country or act out their fantasies of primitive life. Niagara Falls, the Thousand Islands, Muskoka, and the far reaches of Lake Superior all offered the experiences tourists valued most: the tranquil pleasures of the picturesque, the excitement of the sublime, and the sensations of nostalgia associated with Canada's disappearing wilderness.

Jasen situates her work within the context of recent writings about tourism history and the semiotics of tourism, about landscape perception and images of `wildness' and `wilderness,' and about the travel narrative as a literary genre. She explores a number of major themes, including the imperialistic appropriation and commercialization of landscape into tourist images, services, and souvenirs. In a study of class, gender, and race, Jasen finds that by the end of the century, most workers still had little opportunity for travel, while the middle classes had come to regard holidays as a right and a duty in light of Social Darwinist concerns about preserving the health of the `race.' Women travellers have been disregarded or marginalized in many studies of the history of tourism, but this book makes their presence known and analyses their experience. It also examines, against the backdrop of nineteenth-century racism and expansionism, the major role played by Native people in the tourist industry.

The first book to explore the cultural foundations of tourism in Ontario, Wild Things also makes a major contribution to the literature on the wilderness ideal in North America. ... Read more

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Chapters: Black Donnellys, Live 8 Concert, Barrie, Permanent North American Gaeltacht, a Place to Stand, a Place to Grow, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, Trillium Book Award, Ontario Handweavers ... Read more

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Chapters: Culture of Halton Region, Culture of Niagara Region, Culture of Northern Ontario, Films Set in Ontario, Canadian Bacon, Men With Brooms, Shaw Festival, the Black Fly Song, Halton County Radial Railway, Garden City Productions, Burlington Art Centre, Canal Days, Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, Deer Trail Route, Haweater, Highgrader, Halton Region Museum, Red Rock Folk Festival. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 54. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Canadian Bacon is a 1995 comedy film taking a side ways swipe of the Canada United States relations along the United States-Canadian Border written, directed and produced by Michael Moore. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, and has the distinction of being the final completed film to star John Candy (despite having been filmed before Wagons East!). A former employee of R. J. Hacker (G. D. Spradlin) named Roy (Kevin J. O'Connor), nicknamed Roy Boy, attempts to express his grudge against Hacker for closing down the factory where he worked by duct taping himself up inside a car and taping a piece of paper reading "SEE YA IN HELL, HACKER!" to the windshield. He tries to drive over the edge of Niagara Falls but is stopped by the fence. He then climbs out of the car and hops over to the fence to jump over, but the duct tape catches on and sticks to the fence, keeping him at the top. Meanwhile, at the bottom are US sheriff Bud B. Boomer (John Candy) and his deputy, Honey (Rhea Perlman). They have been assigned to convince former employees of Hacker who were laid off when the factory closed down out of jumping over the edge. They will be awarded $25 for every success and, absurdly, $50 for every failure if they manage to retrieve the body. Needless to say, instead of talking them ou...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=679577 ... Read more

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In this compelling and thoroughly researched study, Garth Lambert traces the development of the concept of liberal education in Ontario from the Georgian notion of a classics-based "gentlemen's" course, to its reconfiguration at the end of the nineteenth century as a mainstream, practical and co-educational "English-based" high school programme.

Further and equally important, Lambert gives us, for the first time anywhere, an explanation of how the study of Latin and Greek literature was outstripped in the years from 1875 to 1900, by the compulsory study of English literature that entailed both an original (and indigenous) rationale and a striking new pedagogy to suit it.

Passionate and insightful, Dethroning Classics and Inventing English examines how the teaching of English literature was conceived and then wrested from the gradgrindian clutches of philology.

An Our Schools/Our Selves book. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Labour/Le Travail, published by Canadian Committee on Labour History on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 1471 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Wild things: nature, culture and tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914.
Publication: Labour/Le Travail (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1997
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Issue: 40Page: 280-2

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This digital document is an article from Northern Ontario Business, published by Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 483 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Northern communities lead the way to an Ontario wood culture.(Brief Article)
Publication: Northern Ontario Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Laurentian Business Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 22Issue: 11Page: 2D(1)

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Chapters: Culture of Brampton, Culture of Greater Sudbury, Culture of Guelph, Culture of Hamilton, Ontario, Culture of Kingston, Ontario, Culture of Kitchener-Waterloo, Culture of London, Ontario, Culture of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Culture of Ottawa, Culture of Peterborough, Ontario, Culture of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Culture of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Culture of Toronto, Culture of Windsor, Ontario, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Visual Arts Brampton, Toronto Zoo, the Royal Conservatory of Music, Doors Open Toronto, Culture in Toronto, Hollywood North, Canada's Capital Cappies, Marineland, Ad Astra, Big Nickel, Juno Awards of 2003, Walk for Values, Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, Canada's Walk of Fame, Anime North, Fan Expo Canada, African Lion Safari, Cityplace, Toronto, Harbourfront, Sam the Record Man, List of Ottawa-Gatineau Cinemas, Great War Flying Museum, Soulpepper Theatre Company, What's On, Canadian National Exhibition, Peel Heritage Complex, Maid of the Mist, Hillside Festival, Finnish Labour Temple, List of Attractions in Hamilton, Ontario, Dateline: Toronto, Toronto Independent Music Awards, Poculi Ludique Societas, New Talent Singing Awards Toronto Audition, Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant, Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema, Annual Events in Toronto, Brampton Fall Fair, Toronto Children's Chorus, Sault Ste. Marie Walk of Fame, Geritol Follies, Open House Arts Collective, Table Rock Center, Lampman-Scott Award, National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Ottawa School of Speech and Drama, Thunder Bay Public Library, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Fort Henry Guard, Rock the Park, Brampton Library, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Hamilton Theatre Inc., Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest, Upper Canada Repertory Company, Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Western Fair, List of Songs About Toronto, the Carlu, the Hoito, Kitchener Waterloo Little Theatre, Hamilton Public Library, Magnus Theatre, Art ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=622881 ... Read more