73 posts in 2020
October 30, 2020
Statements
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) recognizes that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) brings disproportionate consequences for members of our community who are most affected by pre-existing inequities in academia. The rapid transition to virtual teaching and the loss of access to resources and spaces...
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Statements
The Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie recognizes disproportionate impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) being experienced by members of our community who already suffer most from existing inequities in academia. The rapid transition to online instruction and the loss of access to research opportunities and locations, as well as associated funding, has caused significant…
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Le département de sociologie et d’anthropologie de l’Université de Guelph est heureux d’annoncer le lancement du site web de la conférence de la CASCA 2021. La conférence aura lieu en mode virtuel du 12 au 15 mai 2021. Le site web sera mis à jour régulièrement, dont l’appel à communication et l’information pour l’inscription qui…
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The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph is pleased to announce the launch of the CASCA 2021 conference website. The conference will be held in a virtual environment, from May 12-15, 2021. The website will be updated regularly, with a call for papers and registration information coming soon. Theme: Engagements and…
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By Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University Welcome to the newest issue of Culture on Resilience/Résilience! After everything that 2020 has doled out, it is with trepidation that I go to my “home office” tucked in the corner of my bedroom between the bed and bathroom door, to look at the morning news. In this time…
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Culture, Vol. 14, No. 2 - Resilience/Résilience
CASCA’s Sexual Harassment Survey Report and Working Group Invitation The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) ran an online survey with our members on the experience of sexual harassment in professional settings from August 1 – October 31, 2019. This was a follow-up to CASCA’s Statement on Harassment, released July 2019. We are pleased to announce that…
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Le rapport du Sondage de la CASCA sur le harcèlement sexuel et une invitation à participer au groupe de travail La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) a réalisé un sondage en ligne auprès de ses membres entre le 1er août et le 31 octobre 2019 concernant le harcèlement sexuel en contexte professionnel. Ce sondage a suivi…
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Culture, Vol. 14, No. 2 - Resilience/Résilience
By Alex Oehler, University of Regina Is resilience merely a kind of toughness, mixed with “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties?”[i] In an article written for the general public, the American Psychological Association defines individual resilience as “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of…
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By Ségolène Vandevelde, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University How can one perceive the invisible and how can one understand what one does not experience oneself? Can one even understand what one has not lived? To this question sociology and anthropology answer yes[1]. But to do so, the socio-anthropologist first goes through an investigation involving...
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By Gabriella Santini, University of Ottawa. Resilience is often understood as the ability of a system to absorb disturbances and to reorganize into a fully operational system (Cutter et al. 2008, 599). It is also the ability to bounce back with a minimum of loss and disruption after a disaster (Barrios 2016, 28). These…
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Bachelor’s Award Recipient/Premier cycle Robert Hanks, MacEwan University Laurence Alain, Université Laval Jessica Jack, University of Saskatchewan Miguel Priolo Marin, University of Alberta Morgan Herbert, Dalhousie University Karlie Tessmer, Simon Fraser University Joanne Scofield, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Faelan Quinn, Carleton University Daniel Chiu Castillo, McGill University James Binks, University of British Columbia Lorri …
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La version française suit Labrecque-Lee Book Prize 2020 The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque, Emeritus Professor at the Université Laval Department of Anthropology, where she taught for more than 30 years. Since 1982, she has (co)authored or (co)edited nine books on gender,…
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By Olivia Roy-Malo, Université Laval During a research stay in Lac-Édouard, a small isolated village in a rural Quebec region, a resident shared with me her memories of a citizen mobilization that had taken place in the 1990s to keep the village school: "We worked a lot because, in small communities, it..."
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English follows Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2021 En 1992, la Société d’anthropologie appliquée au Canada créait le prix Weaver-Tremblay. Marc-Adélard Tremblay et Sally Weaver, deux anthropologues parmi les plus respectés au Canada, furent tous deux essentiels à la fondation de la CASCA, initiative découlant de plusieurs facteurs, le principal étant leur forte conviction que les anthropologues et…
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La version française suit CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) The CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) have been established to recognize the contributions to excellence in teaching and student learning in anthropology. Two awards will be made every year at our annual conference. The first award is for instructors who teach on a “per…
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English follows Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) is seeking applications for two (2) positions (one Francophone, one Anglophone) on the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee. Created in 2018, the Labrecque-Lee Prize recognizes outstanding anthropological publications in French or in…
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English follows Call for submissions: Labrecque-Lee Prize The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) is seeking nominations for the Labrecque-Lee Prize. Established in 2018, this prize aims to recognize an outstanding publication in anthropology written in French or English. CASCA is currently accepting nominations for this prize. The prize...
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Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). The winning books make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life…
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“USask professor says it’s normal to feel ‘fatigued’ amid coronavirus pandemic” (Global News, August 5th, 2020, Dr. Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan) “Inondations annuelles : les riverains font-ils partie de la solution?” (Ici Radio-Canada Première, 5 août 2020, Emmanuelle Bouchard-Bastien, Université Laval) “Sask. anthropologist says many lessons to be learned between 1918 flu pandemic and COVID-19”…
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L’Association des anthropologues du Québec (AANTHQ) vous invite à visionner la table ronde CASCA-CUBA 2018 C’est, il y a 2 ans déjà, qu’avait lieu la CASCA-CUBA à la Universidad de Oriente à Santiago de Cuba, précisément entre le 16 et le 20 mai 2018. L’Association des anthropologues du Québec (AANTHQ) avait alors présenté une table…
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Marianne Ignace (Departments of Linguistics & Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University, and CASCA member) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of the Arts and Humanities. Marianne Ignace is known for her innovative and transdisciplinary approaches to Indigenous language revitalization and documentation, the study of oral traditions and…
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Some CASCA members are listed on the Canadian anthropologists category on Wikipedia.
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Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies (Matrix) is an open-access, peer-reviewed and refereed scholarly journal published by the International Network for Training, Education, and Research on Culture (Network on Culture), Canada. Matrix is published online twice yearly (May and November). Volume 1, Issue I (May 2020) is now available and can be found at :…
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Mental Health Resource List – courtesy of the CPSA https://csn-rec.ca/news/39229-mental-health-reource-list-courtesy-of-the-cpsa Liste – Ressources en santé mentale (ACSP) https://csn-rec.ca/fr/nouvelles/39230-liste-ressources-en-sante-mentale-acsp
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English follows ACPPU- Reopening of colleges and universities: plans for the fall session https://www.caut.ca/fr/latest/2020/09/reouverture-des-colleges-et-universites-plans-pour-la-session-dautomne *** CAUT- Re-opening colleges and universities: Fall semester plans https://www.caut.ca/latest/2020/09/re-opening-colleges-and-universities-fall-semester-plans
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An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize. James B. Waldram, University of New Mexico Press, 2020 https://unmpress.com/books/imperative-cure/9780826361738 James B. Waldram‘s groundbreaking study, An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize, explores how our understanding of Indigenous therapeutics changes if we view them as forms…
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Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements Edited by Vered Amit and Noel B. SalazarEpilogue by Karen Fog Olwig, Berghahn Books, 2020 https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AmitPacing Turning the attention to the temporal as well as the more familiar spatial dimensions of mobility, this volume focuses on the momentum for and temporal composition of mobility, the…
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Of Hope and the Environment? New Ruralities and the Enhancement of Nature in Bas-Saint-Laurent Sabrina Doyen, Laval University Press, 2020 https://www.pulaval.com/produit/d-espoir-et-d-environnement-nouvelles-ruralites-et-mise-en-valeur-de-la-nature-au-bas-saint-laurent Several new initiatives undertaken in Bas-Saint-Laurent bear witness to forms of hope for a better environmental future through the implementation of original ways of relating to nature. This book…
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Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan; adapted by William Flynn; illustrated by Débora Santos, University of Toronto Press, 2020 https://utorontopress.com/ca/gringo-love-4 In the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil, several local women negotiate the terms of their intimate relationships with foreign tourists, or gringos, in a situation often referred to as “sex tourism.” These…
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Book Notes
Archaeologies of the Heart Edited by Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons & Sonya Atalay, Springer, 2020 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030363499 Archaeological practice is currently shifting in response to feminist, indigenous, activist, community-based, and anarchic critiques of how archaeology is practiced and how science is used to interpret the past lives of people. Inspired by the calls…
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Statements
The Canadian Anthropological Society is highly concerned about the detention of Mr. Cihran Erdal, a doctoral student at Carleton University who is being held in Turkey while conducting his research there. As an association representing anthropologists across Canada, many of whom conduct their research abroad, we are very concerned about the well-being of Mr.…
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The Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne d’anthropologie is very concerned about the detention of Cihan Erdal, a doctoral candidate at Carleton University, while doing research in Turkey. As the association that represents anthropologists from across Canada, many of whom do their research abroad; we are deeply concerned about the well-being of Mr. Erdal. His research was…
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Reports
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) conducted an online survey of its members between August 1 and October 31, 2019 concerning sexual harassment in professional contexts.
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Reports
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) ran an online survey with our members on the experience of sexual harassment in professional settings from August 1 – October 31, 2019.
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Statements
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) stands as a witness to the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmad Aubrey. CASCA acknowledges the anguish and outrage felt by Black, Indigenous, and racialized communities in both Canada and the United States for the continual and historical violence perpetuated by individual and state actors, including the…
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The Canadian Anthropological Society (CASCA) denounces the recent murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis. CASCA recognizes the anguish and indignation felt by Black communities in Canada and the United States in the face of this recurring and historical violence perpetrated by individual and state actors who reproduce and profit from current structural inequalities.…
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By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large & Marie Michèle Grenon, Membre actif Francophone (La version française suit) We live in gripping and uncertain times. People around the world have been through several watershed moments over the past six months. But these events pale in comparison to the scale and impact of the novel coronavirus: COVID-19. On…
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Culture, Vol. 14, No. 1 - Doing/Undoing, Faire/Défaire
By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa and Visiting Scholar, University of Guam On January 21, I flew from Taipei to Guåhan (Guam) to begin field research with the CHamoru, the Indigenous people of that unincorporated US territory.[1] Even as Taiwan pre-emptively cancelled flights to parts of China, I felt reassured by World Health Organisation announcements…
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By Martha Radice, Dalhousie University and Visiting Scholar, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University I left my field site in New Orleans very quickly. On Mardi Gras day, February 25, I was one of many thousands of people be-glittered, masked, and revelling in the streets, marvelling at the costumes and parades. Over…
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By Pamela J. Downe, University of Saskatchewan COVID-19 is sweeping headlines. Incidence rates, death counts, risk factors, and public health responses are updated with unprecedented frequency. Most anthropologists in Canada are experiencing the rapidly changing pandemic from multiple locations, including our workplaces, homes, and research communities. We are reorienting to social distancing rules, virtual interactions,…
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By James Depew, Algoma University & David Burty, Western University For capitalism to work at full speed it needs bodies entering into interaction with clock-like regularity. Now that the virus has transformed space through the requirement of social distancing, the space of commodities circulating at high speed is disrupted, offering access to a slower time…
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By Mirjana Uzelac, University of Alberta I was ten years old when I faced my first apocalypse. It was 1991, and the war had started in Yugoslavia. It seemed like the end of the world. I lived in Serbia, and I remember the economic embargo, political upheavals, and worrying for relatives fighting on different sides…
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By Marley Duckett, University of Saskatchewan Two days before I was scheduled to teach a graduate class on campus, I received a message from my colleague and the primary teacher for the course. He had been sent home to quarantine. I read the message, incredulous. Yet he might have the novel coronavirus I had recently…
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By Nicolas Rasiulis, McGill University Spring Equinox, 2020, two days before my previously anticipated departure for Mongolia to conduct the majority of my PhD fieldwork. I recently vacated my apartment-become-home in Montréal, and established a transitory domus “back home” in Ottawa whence I will take off for the taiga to rejoin Dukha reindeer pastoralists. I…
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By Pamela J. Downe, University of Saskatchewan COVID-19 is monopolizing all the headlines. Incidence rates, death counts, public health actions and risk factors are being updated at an unprecedented frequency. Most anthropologists in Canada are witnessing the rapid evolution of the pandemic…
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By Marie Michèle Grenon, Laval University For several weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has been spreading around the world and causing the deaths of thousands of people. The speed of the virus's spread means that some countries, even though equipped with robust health systems, are facing saturation. This is notably…
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Networks
By Maggie Cummings, University of Toronto Scarborough In mid-March, like instructors of face-to-face classes across Canada, I found myself making the abrupt and rather ad hoc transition to online teaching. I began to spend a lot more time reading administrative updates, answering panicked emails (from students and other instructors), and Googling best practices. I also…
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By Bicram Rijal, Simon Fraser University We are living in extremely uncertain times. With the global takeover by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have become humans that we are not used to, because our behavioural responses to the crisis are quite unlike what we have experienced before. Many are calling it a “new reality.” Certainly, it…
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By Maria Ibari Ortega, Australian National University Amid global panic and local fears of contagion, acts of violence and aggression have multiplied at the time of accelerated transmission of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Waves of news articles diversify into apocalyptic themes narrating the ongoing events as lived in different localities across continents. As social distancing became…
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By Emmanuelle Bouchard-Bastien, Laval University. It's spring, and soon Quebec's rivers will make themselves at home in the floodplains, swollen by the melting snow. For some social actors, including the government of Quebec and planning experts, this phenomenon is considered a catastrophe, and the floodplains as…
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Undergraduate student research from the University of Saskatchewan On March 7, 2020, eight undergraduate and four graduate students presented at the Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistics and Archaeology (APALA) conference at the University of Saskatchewan. This is an interdisciplinary, undergraduate focused conference that aims to introduce students from across Canada to presenting their research, exploring new…
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By Clint Westman, University of Saskatchewan In autumn 2019, I began doing fieldwork in a different province, on a new topic. After 10 years living in Saskatchewan, I wanted to launch a new project, actually doing (rather than just teaching) anthropology in that province. I have begun studying bison reintroductions on protected lands (former ranches)…
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(English follows) Call for submissions: Labrecque‑Lee Prize The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) is seeking nominations for the Labrecque‑Lee Prize. Created in 2018, this prize aims to recognize an outstanding publication in anthropology written in French or in English. CASCA is currently accepting submissions for this prize.…
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Networks
(English follows) Prix étudiant du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA pour une communication en anthropologie féministe Les étudiants des 2e et 3e cycles en anthropologie qui ont présenté une communication au colloque annuel de la CASCA 2019 ou qui ont vu leur article accepté pour le colloque CASCA 2020 sont invités à soumettre leur…
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(La version française suit) Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and college anthropology departments recognize their top graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students and to promote awareness of CASCA. Each spring, departments may select one top student at each level of study who has graduated or…
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Culture, Vol. 14, No. 1 - Doing/Undoing, Faire/Défaire
(La version française suit) It is my privilege to announce that we will be presenting Bruce Granville Miller, Doctor of Anthropology and Professor at the University of British Columbia, with the Weaver-Tremblay Award during the CASCA 2020 Conference in London. This award in Canadian Applied Anthropology was named in honour of two of Canada’s most distinguished…
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(French version follows) The Salisbury Award, given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, recognizes an exceptional anthropology PhD candidate at a Canadian university. CASCA is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2020 Salisbury Award is Nicolas Rasiulis from McGill University. Nicolas is studying the environmental stewardship of the Dukha reindeer pastoralists…
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(English follows) Starting in 2016, the Canadian Anthropological Society established a limited number of emeritus members of CASCA at its annual general meeting. Longtime members, these emeritus anthropologists have made notable contributions to CASCA and to Canadian anthropology in one field or another of research, of…
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The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque, Emeritus Professor at the Université Laval Department of Anthropology, where she taught for more than 30 years. Since 1982, she has (co)authored or (co)edited nine books on gender, migration and mobility in Mexico. In 2015, she…
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‘Tiny acts of solidarity’ are bridging our social distance. Can they last? (The Star, March 29, 2020, Dr. Martha Radice, Dalhousie University) How the COVID-19 crisis could shape society (The Chronicle Herald, April 6, 2020, Dr. Martha Radice, Dalhousie University) When a Pandemic Threatens to Erase a Community’s Memory (The Tyee, April 13, 2020 Dr.…
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We are pleased to announce the winners of CASCA’s 2019 Student Poster Prizes. Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer les gagnants des Prix d’affiches étudiantes 2019 de la CASCA : People’s Choice Award / Coup de cœur du public : Nakeyah Giroux-Works (Université Laval), “Entre garde-manger et puits de carbone: ethnographie des mises en valeur alternatives de…
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By Betty J. Harris, Association for Africanist Anthropology, March 10, 2020 The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is pleased to announce the recipient of 2019 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award. Michael Lambek, Canada Research Chair in the Anthropology of Ethical Life at the University of Toronto Scarborough, received the book award for Island in the Stream:…
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A Wikipedia page has been prepared for Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury (1926 – 1989), founder of the Department of Anthropology at McGill University.
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StatsCan Survey – Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/survey/household/5311-COVID-19?fbclid=IwAR0s5cO2A4h78BUJ7VETpk0v9gNFWVKSiIpgdR4yBETD-jIEC1WEj49-mas Répercussions de la COVID-19 sur les Canadiens https://www.statcan.gc.ca/fra/enquete/menages/5311-COVID-19?fbclid=IwAR0s5cO2A4h78BUJ7VETpk0v9gNFWVKSiIpgdR4yBETD-jIEC1WEj49-mas
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By Malcolm Blincow, Associate Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, York University & Ryan James, Instructor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, York University After a prolonged and courageous struggle with cancer, Marilyn Silverman passed away at her home in Toronto, Canada on Tuesday, 18th June, 2019. After joining the Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology at York University as a…
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Extracting Home in the Oil Sands Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada, 1st Edition Edited by Clinton N. Westman, Tara L. Joly, Lena Gross Description The Canadian oil sands are one of the world’s most important energy sources and the subject of global attention in relation to climate change and pollution. This volume…
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Wisdom Engaged Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-Being Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series Edited by Leslie Main Johnson “I listened to my mum, my dad, my gramma, that is why I am still here. That is how you stay alive.” —Mida Donnessey Wisdom Engaged demonstrates how traditional knowledge, Indigenous approaches to healing, and the…
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I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia Cassandra Hartblay, University of Toronto Press, 2020 I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia presents an original ethnographic stage play, based on fieldwork conducted in Russia with adults with disabilities. The core of the work is…
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There Is No More Haiti Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett (Author) About the Book This is not just another book about crisis in Haiti. This book is about what it feels like to live and die with a crisis that never seems to end. It is about the experience of living…
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Allies and Obstacles Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities By Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K. Scotch Description Parents of children with disabilities often situate their activism as a means of improving the world for their child. However, some disabled activists perceive parental activism as working against the independence and dignity…
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Sahara Occidental Conflit oublié, population en mouvement Dirigé par Francesco Correale et Sébastien Boulay Résumé: Le conflit du Sahara Occidental reste peu connu et trop rarement documenté, en France en particulier. Pourtant, cette « dispute » territoriale remontant aux décennies 1960 et 1970 est essentielle à saisir aujourd’hui dans toute sa complexité car elle constitue…
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On February 25th, 2020 CASCA issued the following statement and was adopted as a resolution through the 2020 online AGM. The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) expresses solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation, and all Indigenous nations, in their struggle for recognition and respect for Indigenous self-governance, autonomy, and sovereignty over their territories. In particular, we call…
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Le 25 février 2020, la CASCA a émis la déclaration suivante. Elle a été adoptée comme résolution officielle lors de l’AGA en ligne 2020 . La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) exprime sa solidarité envers la nation wet’suwet’en, ainsi qu’envers toutes les nations autochtones, dans leur lutte pour faire reconnaître et respecter l’autogouvernance, l’autonomie et la…
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