By Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University Welcome to the newest issue of Culture on Resilience/Résilience! After everything that 2020 has doled out, it is with trepidation that I go to my “home office” tucked in the corner of my bedroom…
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph is pleased to announce the launch of the CASCA 2021 conference website. The conference will be held in a virtual environment, from May 12-15, 2021. The website will be…
Archaeologies of the Heart Edited by Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons & Sonya Atalay, Springer, 2020 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030363499 Archaeological practice is currently shifting in response to feminist, indigenous, activist, community-based, and anarchic critiques of how archaeology is practiced and…
Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan; adapted by William Flynn; illustrated by Débora Santos, University of Toronto Press, 2020 https://utorontopress.com/ca/gringo-love-4 In the city of Natal in northeastern Brazil, several local women negotiate the terms of their intimate…
English follows Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2021 En 1992, la Société d'anthropologie appliquée au Canada créait le prix Weaver-Tremblay. Marc-Adélard Tremblay et Sally Weaver, deux anthropologues parmi les plus respectés au Canada, furent tous deux essentiels à la fondation de la CASCA,…
La version française suit CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) The CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) have been established to recognize the contributions to excellence in teaching and student learning in anthropology. Two awards will be made every year…
Bachelor’s Award Recipient/Premier cycle Robert Hanks, MacEwan UniversityLaurence Alain, Université LavalJessica Jack, University of SaskatchewanMiguel Priolo Marin, University of AlbertaMorgan Herbert, Dalhousie UniversityKarlie Tessmer, Simon Fraser UniversityJoanne Scofield, University of British Columbia, OkanaganFaelan Quinn, Carleton UniversityDaniel Chiu Castillo, McGill UniversityJames…
La version française suit Labrecque-Lee Book Prize 2020 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…
By Alex Oehler, University of Regina Is resilience merely a kind of toughness, mixed with “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties?”[i] In an article written for the general public, the American Psychological Association defines individual resilience as “the process…
CASCA’s Sexual Harassment Survey Report and Working Group Invitation The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) ran an online survey with our members on the experience of sexual harassment in professional settings from August 1 - October 31, 2019. This was a…