Between History and Tomorrow

The first edition of this work, 'Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Illustration' (Cambridge University Press, 1986), published before a moratorium on cod fishing, focused on the inshore, small-boat, village-based cod fishery that flourished from the early 19th century to the mid-20th. Since the moratorium, the situation in rural Newfoundland has become so stark, and the multiple and discordant histories that are being shaped so divergent, pulling people apart from one another even within families, that it provides a chance to see history happening: to people, to communities, and to capital.

Gerald Sider is Professor of Anthropology at the College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology (Honorary) at Memorial University of Newfoundland.