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A Kwakiutl Village and School

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This book is a reprint of a now classic text coping with Wolcott’s dissertation topic at the study of a Kwakiutl Indian village and the only-room school he taught at Village Island within the Alert Bay region of British Columbia. Inside the book, Wolcott’s interest in anthropology and training as an educator are blended together to offer a unique look into the educational training of Indian children. Village life and the social environment from which young Indian children learn cultural conventions are skillfully contrasted with the formal, structured educational system―of which Wolcott as a teacher is a part of―Inside the village. In showing these two opposing educational systems, the creator is in a position to highlight problems that arise and additionally the issues which come from an ethnographer being involved in a situation more than through just statement.

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