Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus by David A.B. Murray Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield International Publication Date: December 2015 Website: http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/real-queer “How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central…
[getty src="530683033" width="507" height="338"] by Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University A common rhetoric finding its way into the academic and strategic plans at universities across Canada is an emphasis on improving student-learning experiences through “high impact practices”; often referred…
Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, Michelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin, and Hubert Noël Oxford University Press, 2016 This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the…
Subsistence Under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by James Murton, Dean Bavington and Carly Dokis McGill-Queens University Press, 2016 This book brings together essays from diverse disciplines including history, anthropology, and economics that focus on the nature of subsistence…
Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard, and Sébastien Malette Baraka Books, 2016 Long before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones…
Reading Cultural Anthropology: An Ethnographic Introduction Edited by Pamela Stern Oxford University Press, 2015 This is a collection of 22 recent anthropology articles abridged and annotated to make them accessible to first and second year undergraduates to be used in…
The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s Most Historic Town” Pamela Stern and Peter V. Hall University of British Columbia Press, 2015 In 2001 the northern Ontario town of Cobalt won a competition to be named the province's "Most Historic…
People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon Charles Menzies University of Nebraska Press, 2016 People of the Saltwater explores the history and people of Git lax m'oon (Gitxaała Nation). Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast…
The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Miller Edited by Bruce Granville Miller and Darby C. Stapp. Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Richland, WA March 2016 358 pages The Journal of Northwest Anthropology is pleased to present The…
Together We Survive: Ethnographic Intuitions, Friendships, and Conversations Edited by John S. Long and Jennifer S. H. Brown McGill-Queen’s University Press 2016 Honouring anthropologist Richard J. Preston and his outstanding career with the Crees in northern Quebec, Together We Survive…