Labrador Winter: The Ethnographic Journals of William Duncan Strong, 1927-1928

by Eleanor Burke Leacock

Strong (1899-1962) is best known for his archaeology of the Andes and for pioneering ethnohistory at Columbia University. Here his journal, diary, and photographs are compiled after his death to present his insights into native culture in eastern Canada when it was still largely unaffected by European influence. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

235 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1994

About the author

Eleanor Leacock was a unique individual whose political life spanned both academics and the world of struggle. She was an anthropologist who was also a Communist Party sympathizer, blacklisted from tenured faculty positions for a number of years until she was finally hired full-time in the City University of New York system in 1972. Leacock always saw her extensive theoretical writing as work in the service of social justice.