36 posts in 2019
October 18, 2019
Cultureblog
Par Sabrina Doyon, Université Laval C’est avec un très grand plaisir que je vous souhaite la bienvenue, chers anciens et nouveaux membres de la CASCA! Notre association est à l’œuvre pour faire rayonner l’anthropologie et cet automne 2019 se révèle être très excitant à cet égard! C’est un plaisir de pouvoir travailler aux différents dossiers…
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By Sabrina Doyon, Université Laval Esteemed members of CASCA, I am delighted to welcome you all—old and new members alike! Our association is hard at work promoting anthropology, and this fall is proving to be very exciting in this respect. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to work with such a wonderful team…
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Conference theme: “Changing Climates” Dates: Wednesday, November 20 – Sunday, November 24, 2019 We will be convening in Vancouver, on unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Membership and registration To attend the joint conference through CASCA, you must: pay for your CASCA membership (click here) pay for your conference registration through…
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Conference theme: “Change of Scenery” Dates: From Wednesday, November 20 to Sunday, November 24, 2019. We will meet in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Membership and registration To participate in the joint conference as a member of CASCA, you must: pay your membership to the…
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By Cathleen Crain (LTG Associates) and Jaime Yard (Douglas College) Professional, practicing, and applied (PPA) anthropologists have taken the tools of anthropology and employed them in wide-ranging realms over the past several decades. Uses of anthropology in the world have included such topics as: health; human services; environment; law; community development; international development; and myriad…
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CASCA’s annual conference in 2020 will be held at Western University, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 30 – June 5. See you in London, Ontario! Le colloque annuel de la CASCA de 2020 se tiendra à l’Université Western, à l’occasion du Congrès des Sciences humaines, du 30 mai au 5 juin.…
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Article
By the CASCA Labour Committee (Véronique Béguet, Eric Henry, Pauline McKenzie Aucoin, Shiva Nourpanah, Deidre Rose, Marty Zelenietz) 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. Economic precarity tends to be…
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By Elisabetta Dall’Ò, Department of Cultures, Politics, and Society, University of Turin, Italy This paper describes the preliminary results of anthropological research I’ve been conducting on the Mont Blanc area (Western Europe), concerning the impacts of climate change on the mountain environment. The Mont Blanc area—meaning “white mountain” because of its dazzling white glaciers—is one…
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By Nakeyah Giroux-Works, Laval University Reforestation is one of the panaceas in the fight against climate change, particularly in efforts to offset greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted into the atmosphere. Through photosynthesis, trees take up atmospheric CO2, absorb carbon, and release oxygen into the air. In...
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By Gabriella Santini, University of Ottawa. Scientific research suggests that islands are the first regions to be affected by climate change. They are confronted with rising sea levels, an increase in typhoons, and shrinking areas of dry land. However, little research has explored the human dimension of this…
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By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick The annual anthropology meetings will be in Vancouver from November 20 to 24, 2019, and while I am excited, I also know “we have to stop meeting like this.” At least, this is how mathematician Malabika Pramanik put the problem of academic conferences in her article in The Tyee. The article…
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By Vita Yakovlyeva, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta On Thursday, May 30, 2019, I was woken up by coughing caused by the smog of wildfires, which had creeped into my room through open windows in Edmonton, Alberta. Outside, the city was covered in an orange-yellow hue. By noon, it had grown dark…
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CASCA’s Weaver-Tremblay Award honours Sally Weaver and Marc-Adélard Tremblay, applied anthropologists who believed that professional associations sometimes need to take public positions on social and political issues, particularly in cases that impact those who have been the traditional subject of anthropological study. 2019’s award-winner is Professor Noel Dyck. The 2019 CASCA Weaver-Tremblay Award and Address…
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Bachelor’s Award Recipient/Premier cycle Ashley Megan Williams, Athabasca University Sara Hormozinejad, University of Calgary Monica Regan, St. Francis Xavier University Angela Murray, University of Saskatchewan Ileanna Cheladyn, Simon Fraser University Marly Hill, Nipissing University Jordanna Marshall, University of British Columbia-Okanagan Benjamin Malo, Universié Laval Zoe Slusar, Mount Royal University Jamie Fairbairn, University of Lethbridge Katherine…
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Chief Dr. Ronald Ignace and Dr. Marianne Ignace successfully combined scientific knowledge with wisdom of Elders. About the Innovation Chief Dr. Ronald Ignace and Dr. Marianne Ignace have, over several decades, developed a model of collaborative approaches to research involving Indigenous peoples and communities. This new approach to knowledge mobilization and the development of methods…
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The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s annual Impact Awards honour outstanding scholars who embody the very best ideas and research about people, human thought and behaviour, and culture—helping us understand and improve the world around us, today and into the future. The SSHRC Impact Partnership Award recognizes a formal partnership, through mutual co-operation and shared intellectual leadership and resources, which…
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Dalhousie PhD student in Social Anthropology Daniel Salas has won the prestigious Roseberry-Nash Award for best Student Paper from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA). The winning paper is titled: “Practices of Double Currency: Value and Politics in Rural Cuba”. The award will be presented at the Association’s business meeting November 23rd…
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By Kathleen Millar, Amanda Watson, Ann Travers, Michael Hathaway, and Stacy Pigg (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University). Reprinted with permission of the authors. Our highly esteemed and beloved colleague and friend, Sonja Luehrmann, passed away on August 24, 2019, a little over two years after she was diagnosed with cancer. As an…
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Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier; Illustrated by José Manuel Fernández Lavado. Routledge, London, 2020 Employing ethno-fictional storytelling combined with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, Aerial Imagination in Cuba explores the Cuban sky as it relates to Cuban cultural practices and belief systems, infrastructure, and systems of circulation. The sky, it is argued, is both mediator and a culturally embedded space…
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By Rylan Higgins, Saint Mary’s University I started writing for a non-academic audience nearly 20 years ago. As a member of a research team looking at the impacts of the oil and gas industry on southern Louisiana, I wrote a report intended for the community and received positive feedback from a handful of town residents,…
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Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1 - Publics
by Daniel Tubb, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UNB Fredericton There is a North American phenomenon of young people from rural areas and small towns and medium-sized cities moving to the Big City. In Canada, the destinations are Toronto or Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary. In the US, they are New York or Chicago, Los Angeles or San…
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Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1 - Publics
By Amy Levine Caregiving, according to a doctor and leader of support services at a large US-based hospital, is “like being prepared for the fire drill at all times. You never know when you’ll have to drop everything, gear up, and GO” (Joelle Vlahakis). The constant sense of emergency or what I previously termed the…
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Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice “Changing Climates / Changer d’air”: AAA and CASCA are collaborating for the first time to host the 2019 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Executive Program Committee invites anthropologists and their collaborators to examine how we engage with communities around issues of change over time, including climate change,…
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Kathy M’Closkey, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, ON, was recently given two awards in recognition of her research and activism. The Navajo board of Dine’ Studies granted her the “Excellence in Diné Studies” award during the 21st conference held at Diné College, Tsaile, AZ, October 27, 2018. The board expressed their appreciation…
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A team of graduate students from the University of North Texas, in cooperation with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA), are replicating the 2009 AAA/CoPAPIA Anthropology MA Career Survey: a major online survey designed to better understand the training and career trajectories of anthropologists with Master’s…
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Book Notes
Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings Edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully University of Toronto Press, 2018 The two major schools of thought in Indigenous-Settler relations on the ground, in the courts, in public policy, and in research are resurgence and reconciliation. Resurgence refers to practices of Indigenous self-determination and cultural…
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The Monk’s Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity Paula Pryce Oxford University Press, 2016 The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one. Those who answer it set themselves to the arduous task of self-reformation through rigorous study and practice, learned through the teachings of monks and nuns and the writings of…
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An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic Katie Kilroy-Marac University of California Press, 2019 Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar,…
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Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice By L. Jane McMillan UBC Press (Series: Law and Society), 2018 The name “Donald Marshall Jr.” is synonymous with “wrongful conviction” and the fight for Indigenous rights in Canada. In Truth and Conviction, Jane McMillan – Marshall’s former partner, an acclaimed anthropologist, and an original defendant in…
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The Bois-Brûlés of the Outaouais. An ethnocultural study of the Métis of the Gatineau Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, Guillaume Marcotte Presses of Laval University, 2019 The Métis have long been confined to western Canada in the collective imagination. The issue remains topical given some people’s refusal to acknowledge the historical presence of Métis in Quebec. In Bois-Brûlés, it is proposed…
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Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry Solen Roth UBC Press, 2019 Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local artistic and cultural practice. And frequently, this industry is developed without the consent of those whose culture is being commercialized. What does this say…
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Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism Joseph Weiss UBC Press, 2019 Colonialism in settler societies such as Canada depends on a certain understanding of the relationship between time and Indigenous peoples. Too often, these peoples have been portrayed as being without a future, destined either to disappear or assimilate into settler…
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The Silent G Arpine Konyalian Grenier Corrupt Press, 2019 The collection comes from an inability to be distracted into an extinction of reality, extinction resulting from arcane democratization of matter over time, and the ensuing spread of capitalization into the personal domain.“With writing, I explore identity and common ground capital at the risk of mis-placing…
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Futures of Ethnology / Whither Ethnology? Thematic issue of the journal Ethnologies / Special issue of Ethnologies Table of contents / Contents Futures of Ethnology / Wither Ethnology? Daniela Moisa, Van Troi Tran Fluid disciplinary boundaries / Fluid disciplinary boundaries The encounter between ethnology and museology, quite a history. Overview of the 20th...
Read MoreMay 16, 2019
Culture, Vol. 13, No. 1 - Publics
By Stacy Lee Lockerbie PhD, Halley Silversides MILS, and Suzanne Goopy PhD, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary The Refugee and Newcomers Emotional Wellness (ReNEW) Partnership for Best Practice is a multi-disciplinary, multi-sited, and multi-lingual research project that explores the role that everyday experiences in a host society have on the emotional wellness of Canadian…
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