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Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela Yana Stainova, 2021, University of Michigan Press https://www.press.umich.edu/11698102/sonorous_worlds El Sistema is a nationwide, state-funded music education program in Venezuela. Founded in 1975 by economist and musician José Antonio Abreu, the institution has weathered seven…

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Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1870

Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1870 By Albert Schrauwers, 2021, Berghahn Books https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SchrauwersMerchant In the nineteenth century, the Netherlands and its colonial holdings in Java were the sites of dramatically increased industrialization. Led by a group of…

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Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics

Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics Edited by Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier, 2021, University of Alberta Press https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/1018-9781772125825-contemporary-indigenous-cosmologies-and-pragmatics In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples’ negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a…

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Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader

Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader, 2021, Duke University Press Edited by Yarimar Bonilla, Greg Beckett, and Mayanthi L. Fernando https://www.dukeupress.edu/trouillot-remixed Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black…

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Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations

Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations By Clinton N. Westman, 2022, University of Nebraska Press https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496211842/?fbclid=IwAR36taHyrhhy19lXJuOco8BmTiAir5FIYCH4kkS19mc2zJojRdIj_lTS1js Cree and Christian develops and applies new ethnographic approaches for understanding the reception and indigenization of Christianity, particularly through an examination of Pentecostalism in northern…

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The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize winners / Les gagnant.e.s du prix du livre Labrecque-Lee

la version française suit 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 more than 30 years. Since 1982, she…

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CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence/Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la CASCA (PEEC)

CASCA is delighted to announce the 2022 recipients of the CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence. Congratulations! Dr. Megan Graham, CATE Instructor Winner, 2022 Dr. Mélissa Gauthier, CATE Faculty Winner, 2022 CATE - Instructor Dr. Megan Graham has been a contract…

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Dr. Jasmin Habib, récipiendaire du Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2022/ Weaver-Tremblay Award Winner 2022, Dre Jasmin Habib récipiendaire du Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2022

It is our privilege to announce that we will be presenting Dr. Jasim Habib from the University of Waterloo with the Weaver-Tremblay Award during the CASCA 2022 annual meeting at the University of Regina. This award in Canadian Applied Anthropology…

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