38 posts in 2016
December 21, 2016
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Five humanities departments face cuts Serious cuts to anthropology and archaeology departments at New Zealand’s University of Otago By Margot Taylor The University of Otago yesterday confirmed five humanities departments are likely to have staff cut by November – possibly totalling 15-20 people. University pro-vice chancellor of humanities Prof Tony Ballantyne said the departments to…
Read MoreDecember 18, 2016
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By Pierre Beaucage, Université de Montréal Cuetzalan, Puebla, December 13, 2016 In the Northeastern Sierra de Puebla, the maseual and totonakú people have been struggling for over ten years against mining and hydro-electric companies. Since November 19, in Cuetzalan, we, the maseual people, answering the call from our organization ALTEPE TAJPIANIJ (« the guardians of…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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Culture, Vol. 10, No. 2 Welcome to the Fall 2016 issue of Culture, the newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology Society. We are excited to present a series of articles on the theme of visual anthropology, as well as notices from Donna Patrick, president of CASCA, and Scott Simon, organizer of the upcoming CASCA/IUAES conference in…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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par/by Donna Patrick, Carleton University (English version follows) C’est avec plaisir que je souhaite la bienvenue aux anciens et aux nouveaux membres de la CASCA ainsi qu’au comité de direction pour 2016-2017. Regroupant des membres talentueux et incroyablement dévoués, le comité de direction est composé de Martha Radice (présidente désignée), de Michel Bouchard (président sortant), de Clint Westman (trésorier),…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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by/par Scott Simon, University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa (la version française suit) Meeting with the IUAES : A Step Toward Decolonization As anthropologists, we are keenly aware of the historical roots of our discipline, which some have deplored as the “handmaiden of colonialism” or the “son of imperialism.” Although anthropologists did not create imperialism, and were rarely more than…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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By Éric Gagnon Poulin, Laval University Autumn 2016, Vol. 10, No. 2 For several years, during my undergraduate studies and even as a graduate student, I had never heard of CASCA. Yet, I completed all my schooling in anthropology, part at the University of Montreal and the other at Laval University. It was not until 2014 that…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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by John Wagner and Christine Schreyer, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Schreyer, Christine and John Wagner. 2015. The Kala Language Project: Kala Walo Nua. Written and produced by John Wagner and Christine Schreyer. Edited by Randy Grice. Published online Oct 22, 2015. 47 min. The Kala people live in six coastal villages in Morobe Province,…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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By Frédéric Laugrand, Emmanuel Luce, and Anthony Melanson, Université Laval Fall 2016 Launched in 2014, the series The Possessed and Their Worlds is an ongoing visual anthropology project focused on the preservation, valorization, and dissemination of Canadian socio-anthropology. The series favors the (auto)biographical approach and is concerned with the memory of professor-researchers…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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by Nicolas Rasiulis, University of Ottawa Along with their reindeer, horses and dogs, approximately 200 Dukha Tsaatans (Rasiulis, 2016: 1, 3) nomadically inhabit the rugged and wildly weathering alpine tundra and sub-alpine woodland that constitute Mongolia’s border with the Russian Republic of Tuva. Dukha people’s livelihoods emerge significantly through sustained engagement with the rich ecology of…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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By Roxane Campeau and Antoine Amnotte-Dupuis, University of Montreal Fall 2016 Over the course of fieldwork carried out in Eeyou Istchee with the First Nation of Chisasibi, the northernmost Cree community on the shores of James Bay (Quebec), an anthropological short film project gradually took shape. Valuing both…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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by Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Until June 2016, the plan was to move into my parents’ unfinished basement with my wife and our young son. It was a bad plan, for obvious reasons. But it was the only plan we had. I felt defeated by three years on the ‘academic job market’, and I…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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Borderline Canadianness: Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara Jane Helleiner University of Toronto Press, 2016 Canada and the United States share the world’s longest international border. For those living in the immediate vicinity of the Canadian side of the border, the events of 9/11 were a turning point in their relationship with their communities,…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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The Heart of Helambu: Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal Tom O’Neill University of Toronto Press, 2016 Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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Missing the Mark? Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania Edited by Naomi M. McPherson Demeter Press, 2016 As the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015 end date approached, the anthropologists whose work is featured in this volume set out to explore how or if these goals were achieved in their field…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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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 of British Columbia home for millennia, proudly maintaining its territory and traditional way of life.…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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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 Town.” This honour, though purely symbolic, came as Cobalters were also applying for and winning…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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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 first or second year Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology courses. The emphasis is on contemporary sociocultural…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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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 and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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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 in different contexts, geographies, and temporal periods. These essays offer a collective study of the…
Read MoreOctober 20, 2016
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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 idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it examines how social difference-race,…
Read MoreOctober 19, 2016
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By Karine Vanthuyne On May 10, 2013, before a packed courtroom at a Guatemala City court, Judge Jazmín Barrios found former general José Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of the crime of genocide and of crimes against humanity. This book highlights the limits of such so-called "transitional justice" projects from…
Read MoreOctober 19, 2016
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By Sabrina Doyon and Catherine Sabinot The local and global social, economic and political stakes that unfold within protected areas are multiple, complex and sometimes subtle. Through an ethnographic analysis of six coastal villages situated within two Biosphere Reserves in the State of Yucatán in Mexico, this book seeks to…
Read MoreAugust 10, 2016
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Here is a short video of Philippe Descola's visit to the Université de Montréal. Filmed by: Université de Montréal Editing: Éric Gagnon Poulin
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[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 to as HIPs. Linked to improving student engagement and providing important employment skills, these practices…
Read MoreMay 4, 2016
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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 question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation…
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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 Contemporary Coast Salish, a life-long collection of work from University of British Columbia anthropologist Bruce…
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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 presents new research by Preston’s colleagues, former students, and family members who – like him…
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Michael Lambek with Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives. HAU Books, University of Chicago Press. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/F/bo22485655.html http://haubooks.org/four-lectures-on-ethics/ This is a book in the Hau Masterclass series. Charles Taylor writes: “These four remarkable lectures make us aware, in different ways, of the complexity and variety of what we call…
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Michael Lambek (editor) 2015 The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value. University of Chicago Press. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo21263571.html The essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As Lambek shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is…
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By Lorne Holyoak The Canadian Anthropology Society does not have its own code of ethics. While many Canadian anthropologists rely on their training, their institutions’ ethical guidelines and the Tri-Council policy, others choose to refer to the ethical codes of other national anthropology associations. Although many national associations have their own code of ethics, many…
Read MoreMay 4, 2016
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[getty src=”517450887″ width=”507″ height=”338″]The Medical Anthropology Network warmly invites expressions of interest from recent Anthropology graduates, and those whose work involves a Canada-based or focused approach in particular, to join Dr. Varley as Co-Chair of the Network, and work with her to ensure that the Network reaches Canadian medical anthropologists working on issues of…
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By Deidre Cullon, University of Victoria, PhD Candidate Figure 1: Salmon roasting at the fire, λubəkw. It is spring and fishing season is once again upon us. Herring season just finished and reports of early herring spawn reverberated through the Laich-Kwil-Tach community. Now people are looking forward to the beginning of salmon season, although initial reports…
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You may not be aware of it, but CASCA currently has a listserv that is focussed on environmental and ecological anthropology, and environmental issues writ large. The purpose of the listserv is to facilitate networking among CASCA members who are conducting research related to the anthropology of the environment, or who are interested in topics…
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by Mike Callaghan Moi University, Kenya Image 1: “Holding HAART,” photography by author. Sometimes exclusion doesn’t work the way we expect. In 2008, I moved to the coast of Namibia to begin fieldwork for my PhD in Anthropology. The country had achieved near-universal access to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the medication that treats…
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By Marie-France Labrecque, Laval University. The book examines the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, the result of a bilateral agreement between Mexico and Canada. It builds on the many studies of seasonal migration in that country. However, it stands apart because it takes into account the Indigenous component of the contingent of 20…
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By Annette Boudreau, professor in the Department of French Studies and director of the CRLA (Center for Research in Applied Linguistics) at the University of Moncton. Based on her own journey as a researcher and through the accounts of people she met during ethnographic-style inquiries, the author seeks to understand how language — here...
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By Tiago Lemões and Cláudia Turra-Magni, Universidade Federal de Pelotas – PPGAnt-UFPel Notes on food classifications among "people experiencing homelessness"[1] in Brazil In this text we will present some reflections on the meanings of food and conviviality among men experiencing homelessness in Pelotas, a city of size...
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By Éric Gagnon Poulin, Laval University In Quebec, 842,000 individuals live below the low-income threshold, that is 10.7% of the population (CEPE 2013). In 2002, the National Assembly of Quebec unanimously adopted the Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion (L.R.Q., 112). Since then, the anti-poverty measures implemented…
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