ABSTRACT
IN HIS STUDY of St. Denis, a French-Canadian village, Miner reports that a man away from home is known by the parish from which he comes and in the parish by the family to which he belongs. And the groups that make up the community are mainly the families. On the work side, life in St. Denis is oriented to the seasons and the crops, and most activity is regulated by the rigid seasonal schedule of work. Although individuals from St. Denis go to other places, even to American cities, and later return, the daily round of living is both severely patterned and isolated, and more or less contentedly so.
