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Dr. Alyson Stone Receives the Medical Anthropology Network (CMA) Best Paper Award

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CASCA is pleased to announce that Dr. Alyson Stone (University of British Columbia) has received the Medical Anthropology Network (CMA) Best Paper Award for her Anthropologica article, “Chemotherapy Bells and Liminality in Advanced Cancer Care.” Drawing on fieldwork in a Canadian cancer hospital, the article examines how the end-of-chemotherapy bell-ringing ritual sits uneasily with the…

In Memoriam – Joachim Voss

In Memoriam

by Ritu Verma, Carleton University. Joachim Voss 1947-2026 An eminent scholar of Central Africa and Southeast Asia, he also served many years in distinguished international leadership roles. Joachim Voss, past Director General of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture and past Head of Research of the International Development Research Center, whose research and leadership expanded…

CASCA Labrecque-Lee Book Prize 2025 Winner and Honourable Mention

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Dear CASCA members, The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018 and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval, where she taught for more than 30 years. Since 1982, she has (co)authored and (co)edited nine books on gender, migration, and mobility…

Collaborative, Experimental, Creative Anthropology in Canada–the making of a research “lab”

CASCA Presents

Emma Varley’s reflection on CASCA Presents’ third instalment Located at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Fiona P. McDonald’s Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab operates as a space in which ethnographers can pursue collaborative inquiry, whether in-person or virtually, through use of a diverse suite of technologically mediated tools. Key to the lab’s success is…

The ANTHROPEN initiative

CASCA Presents

CASCA Presents a discussion between Monica Heller (University of Toronto, and CASCA President 2023-2024) and Francine Saillant (Laval University, 2021 Weaver-Tremblay Award recipient) about the latter’s ANTHROPEN initiative (in collaboration with several colleagues). This initiative is a tool aimed at democratizing and opening up the production of knowledge in French-language anthropology. Discover this innovative format…

Welcome to CASCA Presents

CASCA Presents

Welcome to the inaugural post of “CASCA Presents”, the newest initiative of the Canadian Anthropology Society! In a curated and multi-modal way, “CASCA Presents” promotes members’ scholarship, advocacy, and activism: CASCA’s membership exemplifies the very best of Canadian anthropology. Our community is richly and diversely populated by scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists, whose work speaks…

Culture

We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of Culture, CASCA’s biannual and bilingual electronic newsletter. This issue takes up the theme of our annual conference “Confluences”, held at McGill University in Montreal from May 7 to 10, 2025. This issue features one original article by our members, Helene Demers, addressing the theme of…

When Art and Anthropology Collide: The Making and Sharing of Mackenzie Place

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by Lindsay Bell, Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology (University of Toronto) During my fieldwork on the impacts of diamond mining in sub-arctic Canada, I lived in “Mackenzie Place”, a seventeen-story tower that presides over the center of Hay River (Xátł’odehchee) in the Northwest Territories. Known locally as simply “the High Rise”, the building was for decades…