Emergent Axioms of Violence (Special Issue of Anthropological Forum; Volume 31, Issue 3, 2021) Guest Edited By Antonio Sorge and Stavroula Pipyrou https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/canf20/31/3?nav=tocList& This collection explores how violent rhetorics, metaphors, and prescriptive assumptions have come to be engrained in political…
Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality Edited by Holly Zwalf, Michelle Walks, and Joani Mortensen, 2020, Demeter Press https://demeterpress.org/books/mothers-sex-and-sexuality/ Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality talks about things not normally dared spoken out loud—the interconnectedness and conflict between our parental and sexual selves, the taboo…
Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation By Hannah Turner, 2020, UBC Press https://www.ubcpress.ca/cataloguing-culture How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for…
Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Policy Gain or Confidence Game Edited by Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder, 2021, University of Toronto Press https://utpdistribution.com/9781487529048/transparency-power-and-influence-in-the-pharmaceutical-industry/ Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry evaluates the progress made in…
Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame Edited by David A.B. Murray, 2021, Lexington Books https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666901481/Living-with-HIV-in-Post-Crisis-Times-Beyond-the-Endgame Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS…
Concepts and Persons By Michael Lambek, 2021, University of Toronto Press https://utorontopress.com/9781487509057/concepts-and-persons/ The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions…
In Memoriam: Stanley Barrett (1938-2021) By Andrew Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, and Harriet Lyons, University of Waterloo STANLEY BARRETT (1938-2021) taught for many years at the University of Guelph. He received his BA in English Literature…
In Memoriam: Hugo de Burgos (1963-2021) Please see the following tribute to anthropologist Hugo de Burgos: https://fass.ok.ubc.ca/2021/09/29/ubco-mourns-the-passing-of-associate-professor-hugo-de-burgos/
Image tirée de la Série « Les possédés et leurs mondes », Claude Bariteau, livre 4, 24 septembre 2015. Réalisation, Frédéric Laugrand; caméra, Emmanuel Luce. Par Natacha Gagné, professeure au Département d’anthropologie de l’Université Laval Le 16 septembre 2021 nous a quittés…
Disability and COVID-19 (Special Issue of Disability Studies, Vol 41, No 3, 2021) Edited by Pamela Block, Éverton Luis Pereira, Anahí Guedes de Mello, and Dikaios Sakellariou https://dsq-sds.org/issue/view/258 This carefully curated selection of articles is global in scope and offers…