73 posts in 2018
December 19, 2018
Cultureblog
By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large, Van Troi Tran, membre actif francophone Welcome to the Fall 2018 issue of Culture, the newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology Society. We are excited to present a series of articles on the theme of #MeToo, as well as a welcome from Pamela Downe, President of CASCA, Eric Gagnon Poulin’s video from CASCA-Cuba…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
By Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan Welcome to the new issue of Culture! It is also a new year for the CASCA Executive as we welcome Marieka Sax (University of Northern British Columbia) as Anglophone Member at Large and Sabrina Doyon (Université Laval) as President-Elect. Marieka and Sabrina join me (University of Saskatchewan), Past-President Martha…
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By Martha Radice and Pamela Downe We are delighted to announce that we are making great progress in organizing the joint CASCA-AAA conference that will take place from November 20 to 24, 2019. The lands on which we will gather are the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
By Samantha Moore, University of Saskatchewan The recent #MeToo movement has drawn much attention to both interpersonal and structural power imbalances within our society, including constructions of violence and sociocultural notions of sexual assault and justice. In the discipline of anthropology, and specifically in reference to those anthropologists who conduct community-based fieldwork with marginalized populations,…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
Par Pamela Downe, Université de la Saskatchewan Bienvenue dans ce nouveau numéro de Culture! C’est aussi une nouvelle année pour les dirigeants de la CASCA puisque nous accueillons Marieka Sax (Université du Nord de la Colombie-Britannique) en tant que membre libre anglophone et Sabrina Doyon (Université Laval) en tant que présidente élue. Marieka et Sabrina…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
By Martha Radice and Pamela Downe We’re delighted to announce that we’re making great progress on organizing the joint CASCA-AAA conference to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 20-24, 2019. The land on which we will gather is the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
By Aine Dolin and Adrienne Ratushniak, University of Saskatchewan As with other aspects of the #MeToo movement, the prevalence of gender-based violence and harassment at music festivals is not new information to those involved in these events. The growing presence of safer spaces at music festivals over the past decade is a direct response to…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
By Marley Duckett and Mika Rathwell, University of Saskatchewan Few events in recent history have had such far-reaching social impacts as the #MeToo movement recently popularized in media. Originally coined in 2006 by African American civil rights activist Tarana Burke, and more recently defined by the 2017 allegations against famous Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the…
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By Martha Radice, Brian Noble, and Liesl Gambold, Dalhousie University Dalhousie University’s anthropologists were bursting with pride in September when they learned that one of their Honours alumni, operatic tenor and musician Jeremy Dutcher, had won the Polaris Music Prize for his first album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa (Our Maliseet Songs). Jeremy graduated from Dalhousie with Combined…
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By Seyhan Kayhan-Kilic, Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology Alevi is a religious community found in Turkey, the Balkans, Iran and Syria. The Turkish, Kurdish and Arabic languages are appropriately used amongst the Alevi. In the Balkan area, the they are generally known as the Bektashis. Today, we can see them in different areas around the world. They migrated from their hometowns to major…
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News
Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Comme promis dans la dernière édition de notre blogue Culture, la Société canadienne d’anthropologie est fière de vous présenter un court métrage sur notre rencontre annuelle à Cuba, en mai 2018. Le film aborde la complexité entourant l’organisation du colloque, la pertinence d’organiser ce genre d’événement hors du Canada et…
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Reports
By the CASCA Labour Committee The CASCA Labour Committee is dedicated to examining labour practices and precarious employment in the discipline, educating the membership, and putting forward recommendations to encourage fair employment standards for all Canadian anthropologists. Last year the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) conducted an international survey of anthropologists to gain insights…
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Cultureblog
Tad McIlwraith, University of Guelph and Caura Wood, York University Survey highlights We thank all members and all readers of Anthropologica who responded to our open access survey last July. This article summarizes the survey results and details the decision to move forward with the open access option.…
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By Tad McIlwraith, University of Guelph and Caura Wood, York University Survey Highlights Thank you to all members and Anthropologica readers who responded to our Open Access Survey in July 2018. This article summarizes the survey results and outlines the decision to move forward with open access for Anthropologica. The survey asked respondents about their…
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The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recently published its findings from a national survey of contract academic staff. Out of the Shadows: Experiences of Contract Academic Staff documents the working conditions, feelings and life goals of these Post-Secondary Education workers. https://www.caut.ca/sites/default/files/cas_report.pdf
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News
A new law program at the University of Victoria is the world’s first to combine the intensive study of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous law, enabling people to work fluently across the two realms. Students will graduate with two professional degrees, one in Canadian Common Law (Juris Doctor or ‘JD’) and one in Indigenous Legal Orders…
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Calls
Anthropologica, the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), invites you to submit articles for peer review. We welcome articles in both French and English that engage with any field of sociocultural anthropology, covering a broad range of topics relevant to the dynamics of contemporary life. We welcome articles that are grounded in innovative methodologies,…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
The Canadian Anthropology Society – la Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) is seeking submissions for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize. Established in 2018, the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize recognizes outstanding anthropological publications in either French or English. CASCA is now accepting submissions for the inaugural awards to be announced at the 2019 annual meeting in Vancouver, BC. These awards…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
Teaching and Learning Anthropology (TLA) publishes analytical, reflective, and review articles on the topic of teaching and learning anthropology. The journal also publishes original undergraduate and graduate anthropological research and writing. We seek to engage a broad audience of faculty and students through open-access publishing. TLA also publishes a variety of teaching anthropology resources that can…
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Cultureblog
https://fr.iyil2019.org/ International Years are an important mechanism of cooperation intended to raise awareness about a subject or theme of global interest, as well as to mobilize various stakeholders in order to coordinate action at the global level. In 2016, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages, on the basis of a…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
CASCA members Janice Graham (Dalhousie University) and Wenona Giles (York University) have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada for the promotion of 2018. Janice Graham is an internationally recognized medical anthropologist who has carved new paths into the deep ethnography of science, health technologies and medicine. Interested in the cultural, technical and…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
Patrick Lee (MA 2018, University of Calgary) has received the Governor General’s Gold Medal in November. The Governor General’s Academic Medal was first awarded in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin, and has since become one of the most prestigious awards that a student in a Canadian educational institution may receive. Awarded annually at Fall…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
For those who have not heard the sad news yet, Dr. Graham Watson (Professor Emeritus) passed away on November 9, 2018 of natural causes in Abingdon, UK at the age of 83. Graham was one of the two founding members of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in which was established in 1967. There are not many…
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Dorothy came into this world on 8 January 1937 in San Antonio, Texas, and departed on 27 October 2018 in Victoria, British Columbia after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer’s. She made the transition easily and peacefully surrounded by the love of her family. Her life was one of adventure, joy, love, and laughter, embraced with…
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Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice Charles Stafford, Ellen R. Judd and Eona Bell (eds.) Bloomsbury Academic, LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology 2018. China has moved in recent decades from a marginal and even esoteric place in anthropological thought to being recognized as deeply engaged with the dynamics shaping life in the twenty-first century. …
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Book Notes
Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine Julie Laplante Berghahn Books, 2018 Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like “medicine,” thus easily making its way into people’s lives and becoming the choice…
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Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas Karine Gagné University of Washington Press, 2019 Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional agropastoralist economy. This in turn has led to social fragmentation,…
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Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (editors) Palgrave MacMillan, 2019 Global in scope, this original and thought-provoking collection applies new theory on legitimacy and legitimation to urban life. An informed reflection on this comparatively new topic in anthropology in relation to morality, action, law, politics and governance is both timely and…
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Standardizing Minority Languages : Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne (editors) Routledge, 2018 This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely unaddressed dimension of minority language standardization, namely how social actors engage with, support, negotiate, resist and even reject such processes. The focus is on…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 2 - #metoo
By Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, Carleton University In this blog post, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan talks about the challenges of adapting her ethnographic work on sex tourism in Brazil into graphic novel form. Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil will be available in 2019 from the University of Toronto Press. The blog post originally appeared in two parts on Teaching…
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Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte Michael Lambek University of Toronto Press, 2018 Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted…
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The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman (editors) University of North Carolina Press, 2018 From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views…
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Memory Philippe Tortell, Mark Turin and Margot Young (editors) UBC Press, 2018 November 11, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, a time of remembering and memorial, of linking past events to the world we live in today. Taking this particular moment as a catalyst, this book examines the…
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Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive Kirsty Reid and Fiona Paisley (editors) Routledge, 2017 Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism provides an in-depth study of the relationships between archives, knowledge and power. Exploring a diverse range of examples and surveying the now substantial scholarly literatures on the functions and scope…
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Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem (editors) Palgrave MacMillan, 2018 Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled with fresh theoretical insights, this volume is one of the first to address the complexities and contradictions in the relationship between migration, time, and capitalism. While temporal reckoning…
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Russia: Anthropological Insights Petra Rethmann University of Toronto Press, 2018 This book offers a brief introduction to the anthropological study of Russia. Moving beyond the conceptual iron curtain that has divided past study of Russia into “East” and “West,” it situates Russia in a global context and provides readers with all of the necessary analytical tools…
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Feminism and the Politics of Childhood Rachel Rosen and Katherine Twamley (editors) UCL Press, 2018 Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. This unique collection of 18 chapters brings…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large, Van Troi Tran, membre actif francophone We are pleased to present a special issue of Culture, “Stories from Cuba: Conference reflections.” This issue contains a diverse collection of reflections, stories, insights, and experiences relating to the CASCA-Cuba Conference, held at the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba from May…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick A little auto-ethnography. Writing this, I look east over the white crested waves of the Saint John River through the girders of a bridge, once a railway now a footpath, and on towards the hillside campus of the University of New Brunswick Fredericton. Amongst the ubiquitous brick, there…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia In addition to providing a great conference involvement and occasion for academic networking, for many of us the CASCA-Cuba conference which took place in Santiago de Cuba in May of 2018 offered the chance to gain further insights into Cuba or enhance comparisons with on-going research in other…
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Cultureblog
Niurka Núñez González, Lázara Y. Carrazana Fuentes, Adrián Fundora García, María del Rosario Díaz Rodríguez, Research project “Sociocultural Anthropology in Cuba. Reconstructing the Past to Lay the Foundations for the Future”. Juan Marinello Cuban Institute of Cultural Research/Esteban Krotz Cuban Institute of Anthropology, one of the protagonists of the debates on “peripheral” anthropologies, reflects in one…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Étant donné la singularité de l’évènement, j’ai profité de notre séjour à Santiago de Cuba, en mai dernier, pour documenter notre expérience à l’aide de ma caméra. Le film CASCA-CUBA en « Contrapunteo » sera lancé dans le prochain numéro de Culture, à l’automne 2018. Le court métrage d’une dizaine de…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Hannah Quinn, University of Toronto and Bronwyn Frey, University of Toronto After a long day of travel and acclimatization to the tropical humidity, Bronwyn and Hannah found themselves suddenly awake at 1:30 am in their room at the Playa Costa Verde resort. “Do you hear that?” A scratching, scurrying noise was coming from the…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Simone Poliandri, Bridgewater State University When CASCA announced that its 2018 annual meeting would be hosted by the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba, I was elated, to say the least. I had never been to Cuba before and, when I finally embarked from the special Cuba line at the Fort Lauderdale airport…
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María Vicenta Borges Bartutis, University of Havana, Teresa Victoria Burunate Sánchez, University of Medical Sciences of Havana, Cuba Introduction Anthropology has studied the emergence of man in its different stages, although it will always be a difficult task. In Cuba, Don Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) presented interesting disquisitions in his work Contrapunteo Cubano (1940), to...
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Mercedes Cuesta Dublín, University of the East. The search for identity that characterizes the current global reality finds controversial nuances in Latin American and Caribbean countries. All these territories share, along with a common past marked by discovery, conquest and colonization, the burden of slavery: a phenomenon as old as humanity itself,…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Julie Rausenberger, University of Antwerp, Adele Bibault, University of Victoria, Kate Pasmans, University of Victoria Cuban Ethnographic Field School, University of Victoria After arriving in Santiago de Cuba and exploring media consumption in Cuba with little or no access to the internet, we were inspired by our conversation with Fidel Alejandro Rodriguez, a Cuban…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Emma Bider, Carleton University I was not particularly surprised when I read Culture’s latest theme and call for submissions. Anthropologists tend to be critical and analytical, to ask more questions than it is always possible to answer. The cohort of Carleton anthropology students and faculty that attended CASCA’s latest conference in Santiago de Cuba are…
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Roberto Ordúñez Fernández, Archaeology Office of Baracoa. With this research we set out to look at the ancient peoples of the Americas and the Caribbean in which, long before the conquest, there were ties that made clear the great movement that existed between them. We show that there was not only contact between the Maya, the Aztecs…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Kanika Varma, University of Victoria As part of the University of Victoria’s Cuba Ethnographic Field School: Contrapunteo, I had the opportunity to attend the CASCA conference 2018 and live in Cuba for a month with the UVic field school students and staff. The panel, done entirely in Spanish, was called La Anthropología Anti-hegemónica Contemporánea Retos…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Jessica Bridges, Oklahoma State University, Jacob Derksen, University of Victoria, Jemma Kosalko, University of Victoria, Cuba Ethnographic Field School 2018 While attending the CASCA-Cuba conference in Santiago, Cuba, we had the privilege of meeting and getting to know Dr. Alina Garcia, Professor of pedagogical sciences at the University of Oriente. After attending her presentation, “Anthropology…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Christina Holmes, St. Francis Xavier University, and Udo Krautwurst, University of Prince Edward Island The anthropologist comes home from a conference. Exhausted after a very long day of travel, they collapse onto the sofa and turn on the TV. Eyelids heavy, the familiar face of Patrick McGoohan is recognized before drifting off to sleep.…
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María Vicenta Borges Bartutis, University of Havana, Cuba. I embraced the idea of my colleague and friend Manuel Rivero to put together a panel in response to the call for the Congress of Anthropology of Canada (CASCA-CUBA) in Santiago de Cuba. The theme for the debate, "Contrapunteo," was great. I enjoyed my time at CASCA-CUBA; I made the most of it,…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Kanika Varma, University of Victoria As part of the University of Victoria’s Cuba Ethnographic Field School: Contrapunteo, I had the opportunity to attend the CASCA conference 2018 as a participant and live in Cuba for a month with the Uvic field school students and staff. Cuba is sound; it pulls you in. Every morning…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Mingyuan Zhang, University of Western Ontario “Just go outside and look for the zombies, then you will find Wi-fi,” a girl volunteering for the CASCA conference from Universidad de Oriente told me. As most of the millennials, I grew up in China with the Internet and quickly got used to the connectivity and convenience…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Huma Mohibullah, University of British Columbia Having been fascinated by Muslim beliefs, practices and aesthetics around the world, I was excited when the 2018 CASCA-Cuba meetings allowed me to explore the nation’s tiny Muslim population. Even better, the conference fell during Ramadan[1], letting me experience the holy month as Cuban Muslims do. Upon arriving…
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Culture, Vol. 12, Special - Stories from Cuba
By Mark Currie, University of Ottawa There’s something about wanting to reach the top of a high point that I don’t understand but nonetheless drives me to keep climbing. Maybe it’s just my curiosity to know what’s up there. Maybe I’m hoping for a different angle from which to see the world. Maybe I just…
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Cultureblog
By Anahí Viladrich, Queens College & The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Natalie Milbrodt, Queens Memory Program More than 8.5 million people live in New York City (NYC), with over one-third of them being foreign-born.[1] The varied origin of immigrants in NYC—who represent almost all Latin American countries as well as a…
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Yan Grenier, Laval University and Visiting Fellow at New York University. My doctoral research focuses on the mobility experiences of people with disabilities (people who use wheelchairs and people who are blind or partially sighted) in the city of Quebec. More specifically, I am interested in the ways in which human/non-human configurations enable or hinder the actualization of…
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By Robin Ridington, University of British Columbia (Password: dzfn) Music, Voice and Sonic Experience have been essential to humans for the life of our species, and perhaps beyond. Throughout those millennia sound has been experienced as an ephemeral perturbation of vibrations within the atmosphere that surrounds us. Until the advent of acoustic recordings,…
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Reports
At the time of writing, CUPE 3903, which represents contract faculty, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University, have been on strike for six weeks. Without a contract since last August, the union has been negotiating for better pay and job security for vulnerable workers, and asked the university to reverse the elimination of…
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Francine Saillant, Université Laval La décennie des années 2010 a vu naître deux initiatives de production et diffusion de la discipline au sein du département de l’Université Laval: la série Les Possédés et le dictionnaire Anthropen. Toutes deux ont cette caractéristique commune d’être en libre accès sur le site de ce département, et de paraître…
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Harold Barclay (1924-2017) passed away on December 20, 2017 in Vernon, B.C. Prof. Barclay was born near Boston and received his PhD from Cornell after being a conscientious objector in World War II. Early in his career he lived and traveled extensively in the Middle East and Africa and spent two years at the American…
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Culture, Vol. 12, No. 1 - Contrapunteo
By Shiva Nourpanah , Saint Mary’s University and Chantelle Spicer, Vancouver Island University “Do you know how many Indigenous languages are currently (barely) alive in the province of British Columbia?” Chantelle, an Anthropology major at Vancouver Island University, challenged her fellow students and professor during one of their “Language and Culture” classes taught by Shiva during fall…
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Anthony (Tony) D. Fisher (1931-2018) passed away on March 8, 2018 at the age of 86. He was a professor the University of Alberta between 1965 and 1994, and was founding member of the Anthropology Department. Tony’s publications include co-editorship of The North American Indians: A Sourcebook, which for many years was a leading…
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Philip Hugh Gulliver died peacefully in his sleep from “the old man’s friend”, pneumonia, on Friday, March 30th, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Maldon, Essex, on September 2nd, 1921 and was raised in the rural village of Barkestone-Le-Vale, Leicestershire, England. Both his parents were schoolteachers. On the eve of World War…
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Cultureblog
By Deidre Rose, University of Guelph Tendencies associated with the growing corporatization of the university have been well-documented. One of the associated consequences of these tendencies has been an increasing valuation of research over teaching and, at the same time, a growing reliance on contingent, non-tenured faculty. These precarious workers constitute a reserve of low-paid academic…
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Book Notes
Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, First Canadian Edition by Gary Ferraro, Susan Andreatta and Chris Holdsworth Nelson, 2018 Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, First Canadian Edition, goes beyond providing a comprehensive overview of cultural anthropology and applies influential theories, insights, and methods to contemporary situations. The authors recognize that cultures—Canadian and abroad—are in a constant…
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Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon By Sarah Shulist University of Toronto Press, 2018 Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices…
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Book Notes
Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management launched in November 2017 as an online periodical reporting on news, research and stories of cultural experience within fields related to culture and anthropology. Leveraging its multi-media platform to publish articles, images, audio interviews and video, it aims to…
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Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice Edited by Sonja Luehrmann Indiana University Press, 2017 How do people experience spirituality through what they see, hear, touch, and smell? Sonja Luehrmann and an international group of scholars assess how sensory experience shapes prayer and ritual practice among Eastern Orthodox Christians. Prayer, even when performed…
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A House of One’s Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador Alicia Swilinski McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018 What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form of power? A House of One’s Own explores…
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The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets Chapter 6 – The Everyday Black Social Economy of Afro-Descendents in the Chocó, Colombia By Daniel Tubb Palgrave 2018 This chapter is part of the first ever in-depth exploration of the Black social economy in the Americas. It is one of ten case studies from…
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