Aboriginal Conditions: Research as a Foundation for Public Policy.(Book Review)

Aboriginal Conditions: Research as a Foundation for Public Policy. Jerry White, Paul Maxim & Dan Beavon, eds. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. 285 pp. $85.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

In fairness to the editors and contributors of this volume, I should probably state at the outset that it is not for the qualitative method oriented faint-of-heart. The authors of Aboriginal Conditions are unapologetically quantitative in their approach and, it must be said, sophisticatedly and successfully so. While this approach leaves several large gaps which I detail below, the book review focuses ...

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