By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia, University of Washington Press, 2020 Shifting Livelihoods emerged from the eighteen months I spent learning how to mine gold with hand tools in…
Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed/Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land A 22-Year Journey from Interviewing to Publication By Leslie McCartney, University of Alaska Fairbanks After over 20 years in the…
By Evan Koike, University of British Columbia (Winner of the 2016 Salisbury Award) In twenty-first-century Japan, mounting demographic pressures, the needs of heterosexual, married parents of young children, and nonprofit organizations’ outreach efforts are slowly changing the meaning of Japanese…
By Abra Wenzel, Carleton University (Winner of the 2019 Salisbury Award) My interest in Indigenous women textile artists in the Great Slave Lake region of the Northwest Territories (NWT) began in 2015. At the time I was an M.A. student…
By Louise de la Gorgendière, Carleton University, Winner of the 2021 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Faculty) In what ways do we, as ‘anthropology teachers’, provide opportunities for our students to better understand the important anthropological insights they can bring…
By Amirpouyan Shiva, University of British Columbia, Winner of the 2021 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Instructor) Interactive teaching has been all the rage for some time now. One of the first challenges posed by the transition to online instruction…
By Rhiannon Mosher, Ontario Public Service Anthropologists excel at taking into account the multiple perspectives of differently situated social actors and examining how broad social processes affect people’s everyday lives. We try to make sense of messy social worlds through…
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…
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.…
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…