Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier; Illustrated by José Manuel Fernández Lavado. Routledge, London, 2020 Employing ethno-fictional storytelling combined with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, Aerial Imagination in Cuba explores the Cuban sky as it relates to Cuban cultural practices and belief systems, infrastructure, and systems…
By Kathleen Millar, Amanda Watson, Ann Travers, Michael Hathaway, and Stacy Pigg (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University). Reprinted with permission of the authors. Our highly esteemed and beloved colleague and friend, Sonja Luehrmann, passed away on August…
Dalhousie PhD student in Social Anthropology Daniel Salas has won the prestigious Roseberry-Nash Award for best Student Paper from the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA). The winning paper is titled: “Practices of Double Currency: Value and Politics…
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s annual Impact Awards honour outstanding scholars who embody the very best ideas and research about people, human thought and behaviour, and culture—helping us understand and improve the world around us, today and into the future. The SSHRC…
Chief Dr. Ronald Ignace and Dr. Marianne Ignace successfully combined scientific knowledge with wisdom of Elders. https://innovation.gg.ca/winner/chief-dr-ronald-ignace-stsmelqen-and-dr-marianne-ignace-gulk%cc%b1iihlgad/ About the Innovation Chief Dr. Ronald Ignace and Dr. Marianne Ignace have, over several decades, developed a model of collaborative approaches to research…
Bachelor's Award Recipient/Premier cycle Ashley Megan Williams, Athabasca UniversitySara Hormozinejad, University of CalgaryMonica Regan, St. Francis Xavier UniversityAngela Murray, University of SaskatchewanIleanna Cheladyn, Simon Fraser University Marly Hill, Nipissing UniversityJordanna Marshall, University of British Columbia-OkanaganBenjamin Malo, Universié LavalZoe Slusar, Mount Royal…
CASCA's Weaver-Tremblay Award honours Sally Weaver and Marc-Adélard Tremblay, applied anthropologists who believed that professional associations sometimes need to take public positions on social and political issues, particularly in cases that impact those who have been the traditional subject of…
By Vita Yakovlyeva, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta On Thursday, May 30, 2019, I was woken up by coughing caused by the smog of wildfires, which had creeped into my room through open windows in Edmonton, Alberta.…
Par Sabrina Doyon, Université Laval C’est avec un très grand plaisir que je vous souhaite la bienvenue, chers anciens et nouveaux membres de la CASCA! Notre association est à l’œuvre pour faire rayonner l’anthropologie et cet automne 2019 se révèle…
By Sabrina Doyon, Université Laval Esteemed members of CASCA, I am delighted to welcome you all—old and new members alike! Our association is hard at work promoting anthropology, and this fall is proving to be very exciting in this respect.…