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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Abu-Laban, Baha
Title:
An olive branch on the family tree: the Arabs in
Canada
Published By: Original publisher
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. 1980. viii, 259 p.,
plates ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Baha Abu-Laban
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1999. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Arab Canadians (NC05)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
External migration (167);
History and culture change (170);
Speech (191);
Retail marketing (443);
Age stratification (561);
Ethnic stratification (563);
Sodalities (575);
Ecclesiastical organization (790);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a good account of Canada's Arab immigrant
population based on a 1974 survey (the questionnarie is included in the appendix) of 349
Arab-Canadian respondents, living in Montreal and Toronto and on five years of participant
observation in Arab-Canadian communities across Canada. Ninety percent of Arab Canadians
live in the provinces of Quebec or Ontario. Baha Abu-Laban focuses on the historical
background of Arab Canadians, immigration and settlement patterns, ethnic stereotypes,
economic adaptation, secular and religious institutions, and cultural identity. Sharon
McIrvin Abu-Laban has written a chapter on the family. Arab Canadians have been successful
in Canada and have assimilated by and large, although they do maintain their ethnic
identity through church, mosque, social clubs, and newspapers.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
1
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
nc05-001
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-252)
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1974-1978
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Sociologist-4,5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Ian Skoggard ; 1998
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1882-1978
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Canada
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Arabs--Canada
