CASCA Presents

Welcome to CASCA Presents

February 25, 2025
Carlos Vilchez
CASCA Presents

Welcome to the inaugural post of “CASCA Presents”, the newest initiative of the Canadian Anthropology Society! In a curated and multi-modal way, “CASCA Presents” promotes members’ scholarship, advocacy, and activism: CASCA’s membership exemplifies the very best of Canadian anthropology.…

When Art and Anthropology Collide: The Making and Sharing of Mackenzie Place

April 24, 2023
Stephanie
CASCA Presents

During my fieldwork on the impacts of diamond mining in sub-arctic Canada, I lived in “Mackenzie Place”, a seventeen-story tower that presides over the center of Hay River (Xátł’odehchee) in the Northwest Territories. Known locally as simply “the High Rise”,…