Provincetown: A Summer's View

Abstract

This study was conducted for a six week period during the months of July and August, 1976, in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as an independent research project undertaken in the form of ethnographic fieldwork for credit towards a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology at Illinois State University. My sojourn in Provincetown resulted from an invitation by Dr. M. Estellie Smith, Professor of Anthropology at State University of New York, Oswego, to work with her as a field assistant gathering pertinent ethnographic data on Portuguese communities in New England, while enjoying the benefits of her guidance and tutelage in the acquisition of the proper knowledge and skills for fieldwork.