Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, Michelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin, and Hubert Noël Oxford University Press, 2016 This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the…
Subsistence Under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by James Murton, Dean Bavington and Carly Dokis McGill-Queens University Press, 2016 This book brings together essays from diverse disciplines including history, anthropology, and economics that focus on the nature of subsistence…
Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Robert Foxcurran, Michel Bouchard, and Sébastien Malette Baraka Books, 2016 Long before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones…
Reading Cultural Anthropology: An Ethnographic Introduction Edited by Pamela Stern Oxford University Press, 2015 This is a collection of 22 recent anthropology articles abridged and annotated to make them accessible to first and second year undergraduates to be used in…
The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s Most Historic Town” Pamela Stern and Peter V. Hall University of British Columbia Press, 2015 In 2001 the northern Ontario town of Cobalt won a competition to be named the province's "Most Historic…
People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon Charles Menzies University of Nebraska Press, 2016 People of the Saltwater explores the history and people of Git lax m'oon (Gitxaała Nation). Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast…
Missing the Mark? Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania Edited by Naomi M. McPherson Demeter Press, 2016 As the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2015 end date approached, the anthropologists whose work is featured in this…
The Heart of Helambu: Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal Tom O'Neill University of Toronto Press, 2016 Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic…
Borderline Canadianness: Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara Jane Helleiner University of Toronto Press, 2016 Canada and the United States share the world’s longest international border. For those living in the immediate vicinity of the Canadian side of the…
by Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Until June 2016, the plan was to move into my parents’ unfinished basement with my wife and our young son. It was a bad plan, for obvious reasons. But it was the only plan…