New Releases by Joan Ryan

Papers from the Fifth Annual Congress 1978.

Offers an intepretation of why a health centre established in the Calgary area for Aboriginal peoples had difficulty living up to expectations and in accomplishing many of its intended goals in its first three years of operation. This paper also takes a critical look at the evaluation process and proposes a role for the anthropologist in planning and evaluation that may help to overcome barriers to success in a similar situation.

Examines the bureaucracy facing Canadian Indians when dealing with the federal government.

Biographies of six women athletes: Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Kathy Kusner, Wilma Rudolph, Billie Jean King, Peggy Fleming, and Melissa Belote.

Reviews and evaluates basic premises of classical socialization theory and presents argument for consideration of new concept of tertiary adult socialization process which is considered to be a primary one. Provides sociohistorical view of milieu in which Canadian Indian identity is acquired and altered throughout life cycle.