61 posts in 2022
December 7, 2022
Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2
Par Emma Varley, Brandon University Welcome to the Fall Issue of Culture on “Engaged/Engaging Anthropology”! And, as CASCA’s President for 2022-2023, my warmest greetings to all members! My term as President began in May 2022 at CASCA’s Annual Conference at the University of Regina, at a time when crises of various orders were abating while…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2
CASCA is excited to announce the theme of the 2023 conference (to be held with the AAA in Toronto, November 15-19, 2023): Transitions Please see more information, including the CFP abstract on our 2023 conference webpage, which will be updated regularly, and find information about our Student Travel Bursaries here (deadline May 1, 2023). We look forward to…
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By Kathleen Downie, MA Social Anthropology How do we engage anthropology as a discipline, and how does anthropology help us engage the surrounding world? For over twenty years I have devoted much of my professional work as an educator to arts-in-healthcare facilitation, “a broad and growing academic discipline and field of practice dedicated to using…
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By Naomi Adelson, PhD, Professor and Associate Vice President, Research & Innovation – Toronto Metropolitan University The management of research data is a particularly pressing issue for Indigenous leaders, scholars, and communities faced with a far too long history of inequity and exploitation historically characterising Indigenous/non-Indigenous research relations. Given the connection between research data, empowerment,…
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By Kim Clark, Kate Mahoney, Sam Schneider, Anika Sebudde and Andrew Walsh (Department of Anthropology, Western University) What is the impact on disabled university students of the everyday practices of instructors and other institutional actors? What enhances access and what inhibits it? Our summer 2022 team research project engaged anthropological perspectives to gather insights from disabled students…
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By Emma Palladino, Université de Montréal What is archaeology “for”? An easy first answer: to reconstruct and thus better understand the lifeways of our ancestors. To shed light on human evolution, on ancient traditions, and to therefore get a clearer picture of how we ended up where we are today. Of course, that’s well and…
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Image du bandeau: cérémonie de cacao sacré réalisée à Montréal le 11 juin 2022, Clara Gargon 2022.
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By James B. Waldram, University of Saskatchewan The anthropological world is changing quickly, and practicing anthropology is now a rapidly-growing field. Full-time academic positions for anthropologists at Canadian universities are limited, and often go to internationally-trained scholars, yet Canadian graduate programs remain focused on training anthropology professors, not anthropologists. Anthropologists bring a unique set of…
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By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa Anthropological attention to semiotics and ritual provides valuable insights into the meanings of the human relations that hide behind the media headlines. One area where anthropological perspectives are especially useful is in the Taiwan Strait, where media attention to defence and security obscure the more human dimensions of international relations.…
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Calls
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 will be graduating in that academic year to receive…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2
B. Lynne Milgram of OCAD is the overall winner of the 2022 SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. Ruby Peter and Helene Demers won a Nautilus Book Award (memoir category) for the book What Was Said to Me: The Life of Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman. Peter and Demers additionally won a Silver Award in the Forward…
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PhD Candidate Stephanie Mayell (department of anthropology at University of Toronto) commented for Radio-Canada on the mental health session for migrant workers proposed by the Consul of Mexico in Leamington, Ontario.La candidate au doctorat au département d’anthropologie de l’Université de Toronto, Stéphanie Mayell, a été invitée à commenter, dans le cadre d’un reportage pour Radio-Canada, un projet initié…
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To celebrate our fantastic CASCA community Anthropology students and supervisors we are starting a new ‘Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!’ section in the Culture Newsletter. Please send your information to: Rine Vieth, Anglophone Member at Large at cascaenmemberatlarge@gmail.com and/or Olivia Roy-Malo, Francophone Member at Large at cascamembreactiffr@gmail.com. Pour féliciter nos étudiants et superviseurs formidables…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2
Jane (J.) Teresa Holmes, an associate professor in the Anthropology Department in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, died Nov. 18, at the age of 68. J. Teresa Holmes was a respected academic, researcher and dedicated educator. She will be remembered for her warmth, generosity and commitment to teaching and learning. She earned her…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2
Le 15 novembre 2022, la Fédération des sciences humaines et l’Acfas ont co-organisé un webinaire gratuit intitulé « Publier en anglais ou périr : défis et perspectives pour la recherche en français au Canada ». Centré sur le 100e anniversaire de l’Acfas et s’appuyant sur les Consultations pancanadiennes sur les langues officielles de 2022,…
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“Afterword” in The Dynamic Cosmos: Movement, Paradox, and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession, Diana Espírito Santo and Matan Shapiro, eds Michael Lambek Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-dynamic-cosmos-movement-paradox-and-experimentation-in-the-anthropology-of-spirit-possession/ Michael Lambek is a cultural anthropologist, with a BA from McGill and PhD from the University of Michigan. He has taught at UTSC since 1978. During 2006-2008…
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Beyond Rights: The Nisg̱a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships By Carole Blackburn https://www.ubcpress.ca/beyond-rights In 2000, the Nisg̱a’a treaty marked the culmination of over one hundred years of Nisg̱a’a people protesting, petitioning, litigating, and negotiating for recognition of their rights and land title. Beyond Rights explores this groundbreaking achievement and its impact.…
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Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family By Michael Lambek https://utorontopress.com/9781487542191/behind-the-glass/ The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing.…
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Spoken and Unspoken: Catholic Memories in Quebec Edited by Géraldine Mossière University of Montreal Press, 2021 https://www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/dits_et_non_dits Did the baby boomers throw religion out with the holy water? Are they really atheists? How do they give meaning to the major events of the life cycle? What does invisibility, or even taboo, hide…
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History of Theory and Method in Anthropology Regna Darnell Nebraska University Press, 2022 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496224163/ Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the theoretical orientation of the Americanist tradition, centered on the work of Franz Boas, and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth…
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The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America By Regna Darnell Nebraska Press, 2021 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496224170/ In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas and the professionalization of anthropology as an academic discipline in the late nineteenth…
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The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere Paulette F.C. Steeves Nebraska University Press, 2021 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/ The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and…
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The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes By Karoline Guelke University of Toronto Press, 2021 https://utorontopress.com/9781487525668/the-living-inca-town/ The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and the starting point for many popular treks to Machu Picchu. Tourism is generally…
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Mixed Families in a Transnational World Edited by Josiane Le Gall, Catherine Therrien, and Karine Geoffrion https://www.routledge.com/Mixed-Families-in-a-Transnational-World/Gall-Therrien-Geoffrion/p/book/9780367647865 Offering a transnational perspective on the processes of identity transmission and identity construction of mixed families in various parts of the world, this book provides an overview of how local, national, global contexts and inter-group relations structure the development of specific…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2
“Making God’s Country: A Phenomenological Approach to Christianity among the Sediq-Truku of Taiwan” in Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous People, edited by Chia-yuan Huang, Daniel Davies, Dafydd Fell Scott Simon Routledge, 2022 https://www.routledge.com/Taiwans-Contemporary-Indigenous-Peoples/Huang-Davies-Fell/p/book/9780367553579 Religion is an inescapable part of Indigenous Taiwan. The presence of churches rather than Buddhist and Taoist temples is usually the first visible sign…
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New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being Géraldine Mossière, editor Springer, 2022 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-06263-6 Inspired by the neoliberal paradigm that transposes religious behaviors into a religious marketplace framed by consumerist and capitalist models, this volume draws on ethnographic fieldwork to discuss the assemblage between the well-being trope and the rise of new spiritualities, as well as…
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“The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital” in The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures Emma Varley Rutgers University Press, 2022 https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-work-of-hospitals/9781978823037 Emma Varley is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology at Brandon University, as well as an Adjunct in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology…
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“Nowhere and Everywhere” in Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy, David Henig, Anna Strhan and Joel Robbins, eds Michael Lambek Berghahn, 2022 https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HenigWhere Michael Lambek is a cultural anthropologist, with a BA from McGill and PhD from the University of Michigan. He has taught at UTSC since…
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“On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation” in Spirit Possession Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon, Éva Pócs and András Zempléni, eds Michael Lambek Central European University Press, 2022 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789633864142 Michael Lambek is a cultural anthropologist, with a BA from McGill and PhD from the University of Michigan. He has taught at UTSC since…
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“Of Boars and Men: Indigenous Knowledge and Co-Management in Taiwan” in Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond Scott Simon Springer, 2021 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-4178-0 Scott Simon, is a socio-anthropologist trained in both disciplines (anthropology and sociology). Co-holder of the Chair of Taiwan Studies at the University of Ottawa, he has lived in Taiwan for ten years and…
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“Spirituality and Health: Two Fields for Rethinking Studies on the Religious in Quebec?” in Studying Religion in Quebec: Perspectives from Here and Elsewhere edited by David Koussens, Jean-François Laniel, and Jean-Philippe Perrault Géraldine Mossière Les Presses de l’Université Laval, 2021 https://sherpa-recherche.com/publication/spiritualite-et-sante-deux-champs-pour-repenser-les-etudes-sur-le-religieux-au-quebec/ Géraldine Mossière is an anthropologist and…
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What Was Said to Me: The Life of a Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman Ruby Peter with Helene Demers Royal BC Museum, 2021 https://publications.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/product/what-was-said-to-me/ Over seven decades, Sti’tum’atul’wut mentored hundreds of students and teachers and helped thousands of people to develop a basic knowledge of the Hul’q’umi’num’ language. She contributed to dictionaries and grammars, and helped…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
Teaching Across Disciplinary and Experiential Borders Megan Graham, PhD2022 CATE Instructor Recipient As anthropologists, we are accustomed to immersing ourselves in intellectually and experientially rich milieus for our ethnographic research. I am a musician-ethnographer. My research situates me in the textures of voices, sounds, and all that is experiential, and I recognize the importance of…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
CASCA is delighted to announce the 2022 recipients of the CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence. Congratulations! CATE – Instructor Dr. Megan Graham has been a contract instructor in Anthropology at Carleton University since 2018, a year before she received her PhD in Anthropology at Carleton. She has taught a range of undergraduate courses, mostly in…
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Learning about Clandestine Migration through Art and Anthropology By Mélissa Gauthier, University of Victoria, Winner of the 2022 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Faculty) How can the blending of anthropology and art help us think about pressing global issues like migration and create engaged and meaningful learning in the classroom? Collaborations between artists and anthropologists have flourished in…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
Mary-Lee Mulholland (Mount Royal University) The Utopia of Peer Evaluations of Teaching – A Cautionary Tale In The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy David Graeber (2015) reflects on how bureaucracy, through an economy of paperwork, evaluation, and performance reviews, has spread from the corporate sector to the government,…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
It is our privilege to announce that we will be presenting Dr. Jasim Habib from the University of Waterloo with the Weaver-Tremblay Award during the CASCA 2022 annual meeting at the University of Regina. This award in Canadian Applied Anthropology was named in honour of two of Canada’s most distinguished applied anthropologists, the late Sally…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
la version française suit 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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Editors’ comment, Spring 2022 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2022 By Maggie Cummings, Anglophone Member-at-Large and Olivia Roy-Malo, Membre actif francophone Welcome to the Spring 2022 Issue of Culture, the biannual newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology Society. As we prepare this issue for publication, we are also are also preparing for CASCA upcoming…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
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 2022 Salisbury Award is Amanda Foote from the University of Calgary. Amanda is studying the history of museum collections policy development and its contemporary…
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Congratulations to Brian Thom, CASCA member and associate Professor at the dep. of anthropology of University of Victoria, on Provost’s Award in Engaged Scholarship. The Provost’s Award in Engaged Scholarship (PAES) celebrates the integration of outstanding UVic scholarship, teaching and community engagement. The title of Provost’s Engaged Scholar is awarded to tenured faculty members who have achieved great distinction…
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The UAB has awarded Monica Heller, professor emerita at the University of Toronto, an honourary doctorate at the suggestion of the Faculty of Philosophy of Arts considering “she is one of the most outstanding current academic figures” in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. La UAB a remis à Monica Heller, professeure émérite de…
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The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) announces complete and free Open Access to its newly digitized journal CULTURE. This bilingual publication ran from 1981 to 1997, before merging with our current Open Access flagship journal Anthropologica. It represents an incredible cross-section of Canadian and global anthropological scholarship. The digitization of this print-only publication was a challenge. CASCA member Martha Radice worked to locate and rebuild a complete set…
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Congratulations to our member William Campbell (PhD candidate at the University of Victoria) on receiving the 2021 Gordon and Gary Shepherd Graduate Student Paper Award on on his paper titled “There are never too many miles to travel”: A Case for LDS Temple Attendance as Pilgrimage. Félicitations à William Campbell, membre de la CASCA et candidat…
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Walter Callaghan, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, talks about what motivates people to be foreign fighters in armed conflicts : Ashley Stewart, 31 mars 2022 “Untrained foreign fighters urged to steer clear of Ukraine: ‘This is not Call of Duty’“, Global News. Michael Lambek, is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
la version française suit The Canadian Anthropology Society 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 award. These awards are made in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists, Marie-France Labrecque and Richard…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
The UofT Department of Anthropology has launched an Instagram campaign to inform students about different aspects of student life: tips, event, careers. An interesting tool for all anthropology students! Just follow the link! Le département d’anthropologie de l’Université de Toronto a récemment lancé une page Instagram afin d’informer les étudiant.e.s à propos d’événements à venir,…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie – félicitations! Félicitations à Marie-Michèle Grenon qui a brillamment soutenu sa thèse de doctorat aujourd’hui ! Sa thèse a pour titre “De Yo, sí puedo à ArrowMight : un exemple de coopération « Sud-Nord » dans le domaine de la littératie” et elle a…
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In Memoriam: Carole Marie Farber (1944-2022) Carole Marie Farber was born in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, USA and died in London, Ontario, Canada. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ruth Jane Haensel Farber and Herbert Gordon Farber; sisters, Barbara J. Boettcher, Joann M. Kuiper, and Nancy J. Patteson; and her dear friend, Arlene Higgs.…
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Call for Papers Crises We Live By: a Metaphorical Approach to the Crisis Transdisciplinary Conference at the University of Potsdam, Germany 30-31 March 2023 Confirmed Speakers: Prof. Maurizio Bettini (Università di Siena), Prof. Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England), Dr. Fabian Horn (LMU München), Dr. Antonella Luporini (Università di Bologna), Dr. Alberto Martinengo…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
La version française suit Culture is CASCA’s bi-annual and bilingual electronic newsletter. Our next call for submissions of articles and discussion pieces, news items, event announcements, and book notes will be announced in early Fall 2022. Please send your inquiries to: Rine Veith, Anglophone Member at Large at cascaenmemberatlarge(a)gmail.com and/or Olivia Roy-Malo, Francophone Member at…
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Cultureblog
In Memoriam – Éric Schwimmer (1923-2022) Éric Schwimmer, honorary member of CASCA in 2015, passed away on April 8, 2022. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto as well as at Laval University from 1975 to 1993. “Polyglot, lover of literature, thinker and passionate researcher, he devoted part of his life…
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Book Notes
Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations By Clinton N. Westman, 2022, University of Nebraska Press https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496211842/?fbclid=IwAR36taHyrhhy19lXJuOco8BmTiAir5FIYCH4kkS19mc2zJojRdIj_lTS1js Cree and Christian develops and applies new ethnographic approaches for understanding the reception and indigenization of Christianity, particularly through an examination of Pentecostalism in northern Alberta. Clinton N. Westman draws on historical records and his own long-term ethnographic research in…
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Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader, 2021, Duke University Press Edited by Yarimar Bonilla, Greg Beckett, and Mayanthi L. Fernando https://www.dukeupress.edu/trouillot-remixed Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique of the West to the ongoing…
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Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics Edited by Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier, 2021, University of Alberta Press https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/1018-9781772125825-contemporary-indigenous-cosmologies-and-pragmatics In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples’ negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of Indigenous peoples’ engagement with Christianity…
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The Right to Be Rural Edited by Karen R. Foster and Jennifer Jarman, 2022, University of Alberta Press https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/1019-9781772125832-right-to-be-rural In this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia through the lens of rights and citizenship, across such varied domains as education, employment, and health. The provocative concept of a “right…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela Yana Stainova, 2021, University of Michigan Press https://www.press.umich.edu/11698102/sonorous_worlds El Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician José Antonio Abreu, the institution has weathered seven jolting changes in government. Hugo Chávez and, after his death, president Nicolás Maduro enthusiastically included…
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Book Notes
Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1870 By Albert Schrauwers, 2021, Berghahn Books https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SchrauwersMerchant In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased industrialization. Led by a group of “merchant kings” who exemplified gentlemanly capitalism, this ambitious trading project transformed the small, economically moribund…
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Resolutions
Dear members, please find below the CASCA IHRA resolution. The vote on this resolution will take place at the AGM held in Regina in May. — RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE IHRA GUIDELINES ON ANTISEMITISM That the Canadian Anthropology Society, whose discipline and whose membership are strongly opposed to all forms of discrimination based on “race,” nationality, class…
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Statements
The Canadian Anthropological Society unequivocally condemns the Russian Federation’s military assault on Ukraine. Read Statement
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Statements
The Anthropological Society of Canada unequivocally condemns the Russian Federation's military assault on Ukraine. Learn more
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