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CASCA@50

By Monica Heller, présidente de la CASCA Je vous écris entre deux colloques – this is an exceptional year for…

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Mots de l’équipe d’édition/Editor’s comment

la version française suit Welcome to the spring issue of Culture, CASCA's biannual newsletter! As usual, the theme of this…

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Interview: John Cho on Drag as Decolonial and Anti-Racist Resistance

The 2024 CASCA meetings will feature a drag performance and academic panel—both featuring Vancouver-based performer Shay Dior—to be held in…

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A Collaboration Continues: Connecting Canadian and Malagasy Students since 2007

By Martelline Razafindravola Be (l’Université d’Antsiranana) and Andrew Walsh (Western University) We’ve been working together – in Madagascar, in Canada,…

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Une collaboration durable : Connecter les étudiant·e·s au Canada et à Madagascar depuis 2007

Par Martelline Razafindravola Be (Université d'Antsiranana) et Andrew Walsh (Western University) Nous travaillons ensemble - à Madagascar, au Canada et…

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Ellen Badone’s Festschrift : She Listened, We Listened

Co-edited by Jennifer Selby and Paul Bramadat Introduction to Ellen Badone's Festschrift: She Listened, We Listened By Paul Bramadat, CSRS,…

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A Preliminary Report from the CASCA Labour Committee/Rapport préliminaire du Comité de travail de la CASCA

Please find the preliminary report here: EN: https://cas-sca.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PRECARITY-SURVEY-PRELIMINARY-REPORT-2.pdf Le rapport préliminaire est disponible ici : FR: https://cas-sca.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PRECARITY-SURVEY-PRELIMINARY-REPORTreformatted_FR.docx

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In Memoriam: Yvan Simonis (1936-2024)

C'est avec regret que nous avons appris le décès d’Yvan Simonis, professeur titulaire retraité de la Faculté de sciences sociales…

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Récipiendaire du Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2024/ Weaver-Tremblay Award Winner 2024

It is our privilege to announce that we will be presenting Dr. Carole Lévesque from INRS with the Weaver-Tremblay Award…

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Labrecque-Lee Book Prize / Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee

la version française suit The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee is delighted to announce the winner of the award is Michael…

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Bourse Salisbury/Salisbury Award

la version française suit The Richard F. Salisbury student award is given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, a…

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

la version française suit The CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) have been established to recognize the contributions to excellence…

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Membre honorée de la CASCA/CASCA Fellow

Naomi Adelson is a professor of medical anthropology and, since 2018, the associate vice president, research and innovation at Toronto…

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Our members in the News/ Suivez nos membres dans les médias

March 5, 2024: This week, in an unexpected decision, Quebec has approved the use of the X gender marker for…

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CASCA members stand out / Des membres de la CASCA se distinguent

The exhibition of a prominent Nuu-chah-nulth artist George Clutesi was put together by Dr. Andrea Walsh (ANTH faculty), Dr. Jennifer…

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Éléments d’une sociolinguistique critique

Monica Heller ENS Éditions, Lyon, coll. « Langages », 2023, 195 p. Monica Heller, linguiste et anthropologue canadienne, pose dans…

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Inuksiutiit. Un demi-siècle d’études inuit. A Half-Century of Inuit Studies. ᐃᓄᒃᓯᐅᑏᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᒥᑦᓵᓄᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓭᒐᓱᐊᕐᑎᓗᒋᑦ ᐅᑭᐅᓂᑦ 50ᓂᑦ

Louis-Jacques Dorais, Bernard Saladin d'Anglure, avec la collaboration de Daniel Chartier Montréal, Imaginaire | Nord et Québec, Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit,…

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The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver

Danya Fast Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, USA, coll. "Medical Anthropology", 2023, 246 p. In both local and international imaginations,…

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Bloom Spaces: Reproduction and Tourism on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica

Susan Frohlick University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 2023, 208 p. Tourism generates intense atmospheric relations between people and places.…

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Language and Social Justice. Global Perspectives

Kathleen C. Riley, Bernard C. Perley, Inmaculada M. Garcia-Sanchez Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, USA, 2024 Language, whether spoken, written, or…

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Bonjour/hello : de la présidente/from the president

J’ai eu l’honneur d’assumer la présidence de la CASCA dans une année mouvementée … and full of transitions, as has…

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Mot de l’équipe / Editors’ Note

Bienvenue dans le numéro d'automne de Culture, le bulletin d'information semestriel de la CASCA! C’est avec beaucoup de fébrilité que…

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Invisibilité et discrétion ? Conflits énergétiques et destructions socio-environnementales en Alt Empordà (Catalogne, Espagne)

Par Sabrina Bougie, étudiante au doctorat en anthropologie, Université Laval, Québec   La multiplication des projets d’énergies renouvelables se fait…

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Les Défis de l’Adaptation Culturelle(s) : Réflexions sur la Communication et la Sécurité en Temps de Crise

Emilie El Khoury, Ph.D, Post-Doctorante, Centre for International and Defense Policy (CIDP), Queen's University   En qualité d'anthropologue, mon objectif…

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Our members in the News/ Suivez nos membres dans les médias

At the University of Toronto, Associate Professor Girish Daswani appeared as a guest on a CBC's Tapestry radio program. The…

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Des membres de la CASCA se distinguent/CASCA members stand out

University of Toronto Scarborough Anthropology Associate Professor Christopher Krupa has been awarded the 2023 Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize…

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In Memoriam: Megha Sharma Sehdev (1981-2023)

Dr. Megha Sharma Sehdev was a brilliant and creative scholar of law, violence, and care who died on August 17,…

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Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains

As one of North America’s most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for…

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Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908-1945

The Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague to the country.…

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Savoirs, utopies et production des communs

Savoirs, utopies et production des communs Martin Hébert, Francine Saillant et Sarah Bourdages Duclot (dir.). Éditions des archives contemporaines. France,…

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L’Europe et l’histoire des sans-histoire

L’Europe et l’histoire des sans-histoire Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) et présenté par André C. Drainville (sociologie, Université Laval) et Martin…

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Autochtonie et question éducative dans les Outre-mer : Une enquête comparative en Guyane et en Polynésie française

Autochtonie et question éducative dans les Outre-mer. Une enquête comparative en Guyane et en Polynésie française Maurizio Ali Les Presses…

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Éloge du raisonnable : Pour un réenchantement raisonné du monde

Éloge du raisonnable : Pour un réenchantement raisonné du monde Raymond Massé Presses de l’Université Laval. Québec, 230 pages ,…

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Petite

Petite Francine Saillant Academia, Louvain-la-Neuve, 212 pages, ISBN: 978-2-8061-3596-4 Petite, une enfant exploratrice, se frotte aux énigmes d’une quête qui…

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Mots des éditeur·rice·s/ Editors’ Comment

De coutume, le thème du numéro printanier de Culture correspond à celui retenu pour notre colloque annuel. Cette année, les…

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Résolution: adoption de pratiques de rédaction neutre et inclusive/Motion: Adoption of Neutral and Inclusive Writing Practices

Résolution: Adoption de pratiques de rédaction neutre et inclusive Considérant l’importance de l’écriture inclusive et neutre pour atteindre une représentation…

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Labrecque-Lee Book 2022 Award / Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee 2022

Labrecque-Lee Book 2022 Award Announcement The Labrecque-Lee Book Award was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists,…

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Weaver-Tremblay Award / Prix Weaver-Tremblay

CASCA is delighted to announce that Dr. Colin Scott has been selected as the Weaver-Tremblay Award for 2023. Dr. Scott…

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Best Paper Award by Medical Anthropology Network / Prix du meilleur article du Réseau de l’anthropologie médicale

CASCA’s Medical Anthropology Network (CMA) has established a Best Paper Award. The Award will be awarded once per year to…

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Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Award 2023 / Prix d’excellence des étudiant·e·s finissants en anthropologie 2023

Special congratulations to Jessica Jack (University of Saskatchewan) who also won in 2020! Félicitations Jessica Jack, gagnante du prix d'excellence, Premier Cycle en 2020!…

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CASCA Fellows / Les membres émérites

Congratulations to the CASCA 2023 Fellows: Michael Lambek (University of Toronto Scarborough) and Susan Vincent (St. Francis Xavier University). La CASCA est très fière…

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Salisbury Award Winner / Récipiendaire du prix Salisbury

The Salisbury Award, given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, recognizes an exceptional anthropology PhD candidate at a Canadian university.CASCA is delighted…

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CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence / Prix d’excellence en enseignement

Course Instructor / Personnel chargé de cours: Karl Schmid Dr. Karl Schmid has been a contract instructor at York University,…

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CASCA members stand out / Les membres de la CASCA se distinguent

PhD Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellow Celeste Pang shares a new digital collective mural Presents and Futures of Care. The mural…

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Our Members in the Media / Suivez nos membres dans les médias

A new episode of the podcast "Defence Deconstructed" features PhD Candidate Walter Callaghan, and he discusses professional military education and…

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In Memorium – Samar Zora

Samar Zora, who was born in Kuwait but moved to Canada when she was five years old, moved back to…

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The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi

The Right to Be Counted. The Urba Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in DelhiBy Sanjeev RoutrayStanford University Press In…

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Chapter: On the existence and persistence of the social category of atan in contemporary Timor-Leste (Susanna Barnes) in Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste

Chapter: On the existence and persistence of the social category of atan in contemporary Timor-Leste By Susanna BarnesIn Economic Diversity…

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Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples

Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous PeoplesBy Bruce Granville MillerUBC Press On the twelfth floor…

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Recipes and Reciprocity: Building Relationships in Research

Recipes and Reciprocity. Building Relationships in ResearchEdited by Hannah Tait Neufeld, Elizabeth FinnisUniversity of Manitoba Press Recipes and Reciprocity considers…

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The Sensory Studies Manifesto: Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences

The Sensory Studies Manifesto: Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human SciencesBy David HowesUTP Press The senses are…

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Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment

Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the EnvironmentEdited By Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall, Christine FrisonRoutledge, Taylor…

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A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador

A Feast of FlowersRace, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in EcuadorBy Christopher KrupaUniversity of Pennsylvania Press In A Feast of Flowers,…

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Small Bites: Biocultural Dimension of Children’s Food and Nutrition

Small Bites: Biocultural Dimension of Children’s Food and NutritionBy Tina MoffatUBC Press https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo156867159.html#anchor-table-of-contents Picky eating. Obesity. Malnutrition. Small Bites challenges…

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Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot StructuresBy Brenda E.F. BeckUniversity of Toronto Press Understanding an epic story’s key…

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The Inuit World

The Inuit WorldEdited by Pamela SternRoutledge, Taylor and Francis Group The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source…

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La pluralité religieuse au Québec

La pluralité religieuse au QuébecDirigé par Deirdre MeintelPresses de l'Université de Montréal Fruit d’une recherche de terrain sur plus de…

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Walking Together, Working Together: Engaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-Being

Walking Together, Working Together. Engaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-Being.Edited by  Leslie Main Johnson and Janelle Marie BakerUniversity of Alberta Press…

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What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make

What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They MakeBy Michael J. HathawayPrinceton University Press What a Mushroom Lives…

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Chapter: Africa Out of the Shadows: Authoritarian Anti-Imperialism, Transnational Pentecostalism, and Covid-19 “Conspiracy Theories” In Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Chapter: Africa Out of the Shadows: Authoritarian Anti-Imperialism, Transnational Pentecostalism, and Covid-19 "Conspiracy Theories" By Laura MeekIn Covid Conspiracy Theories…

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President’s Welcome

Par Emma Varley, Brandon University Welcome to the Fall Issue of Culture on "Engaged/Engaging Anthropology"! And, as CASCA’s President for…

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Mot de bienvenue de la présidente

Par Emma Varley, Brandon University Bienvenue à l’édition d’automne de l’infolettre Culture sur «l’Anthropologie engagée et engageante». En tant que…

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Annonce du thème de AAACASCA2023 theme announcement  

CASCA is excited to announce the theme of the 2023 conference (to be held with the AAA in Toronto, November…

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Art and Anthropology

By Kathleen Downie, MA Social Anthropology How do we engage anthropology as a discipline, and how does anthropology help us…

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“Doing” Anthropology Differently: Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Research Data Management and Anthropology

By Naomi Adelson, PhD, Professor and Associate Vice President, Research & Innovation - Toronto Metropolitan University The management of research…

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Engaging Anthropology to Understand the Experiences of Disabled University Students

By Kim Clark, Kate Mahoney, Sam Schneider, Anika Sebudde and Andrew Walsh (Department of Anthropology, Western University) What is the impact on…

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Future Reflections: Archaeology, Identity, and Contemporary Gender Politics

By Emma Palladino, Université de Montréal What is archaeology “for”?  An easy first answer: to reconstruct and thus better understand…

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Une méthodologie intersubjective et phénoménologique : Proposition d’un empirisme radical

Image du bandeau: cérémonie de cacao sacré réalisée à Montréal le 11 juin 2022, Clara Gargon 2022.
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A New Graduate Program in Practicing Anthropology at USASK:  Training Engaged Anthropologists for the Future!

By James B. Waldram, University of Saskatchewan The anthropological world is changing quickly, and practicing anthropology is now a rapidly-growing…

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“Taiwan’s Birthday?”: an Anthropological View of Diplomatic Events in Ottawa

By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa Anthropological attention to semiotics and ritual provides valuable insights into the meanings of the human…

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Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards/ Prix d’excellence des étudiants finissants en anthropologie

This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and college anthropology departments recognize their top graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s,…

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CASCA members stand out/Des membres de la CASCA se distinguent

B. Lynne Milgram of OCAD is the overall winner of the 2022 SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. Ruby Peter and…

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Our members in the news / Nos membres dans les médias

PhD Candidate Stephanie Mayell  (department of anthropology at University of Toronto) commented for Radio-Canada on the mental health session for migrant workers proposed…

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NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie – félicitations!

To celebrate our fantastic CASCA community Anthropology students and supervisors we are starting a new ‘Congratulations on your successful thesis…

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In Memoriam – J. Teresa Holmes

Jane (J.) Teresa Holmes, an associate professor in the Anthropology Department in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies,…

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Webinaire avec l’Acfas – Publier en anglais ou périr / Webinar with Acfas – Publish in English or perish

Le 15 novembre 2022, la Fédération des sciences humaines et l'Acfas ont co-organisé un webinaire gratuit intitulé « Publier en…

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“Afterword” in The Dynamic Cosmos: Movement, Paradox, and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession

"Afterword" in The Dynamic Cosmos: Movement, Paradox, and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession, Diana Espírito Santo and Matan…

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Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family

Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family By Michael Lambek https://utorontopress.com/9781487542191/behind-the-glass/ The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der…

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Beyond Rights: The Nisg̱a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships

Beyond Rights: The Nisg̱a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships By Carole Blackburn https://www.ubcpress.ca/beyond-rights In 2000, the…

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Dits et non-dits: Mémoires catholiques au Québec

Dits et non-dits: Mémoires catholiques au Québec Sous la direction de Géraldine Mossière Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2021…

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History of Theory and Method in Anthropology

History of Theory and Method in Anthropology Regna Darnell Nebraska University Press, 2022 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496224163/ Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination…

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The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America

The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America By Regna Darnell Nebraska Press, 2021 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496224170/…

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The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere Paulette F.C. Steeves Nebraska University Press, 2021 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496202178/ The Indigenous Paleolithic of the…

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The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes

The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes By Karoline Guelke University of Toronto Press, 2021 https://utorontopress.com/9781487525668/the-living-inca-town/ The…

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Mixed Families in a Transnational World

Mixed Families in a Transnational World Edited by Josiane Le Gall, Catherine Therrien, and Karine Geoffrion https://www.routledge.com/Mixed-Families-in-a-Transnational-World/Gall-Therrien-Geoffrion/p/book/9780367647865 Offering a transnational perspective on the…

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“Making God’s Country: A Phenomenological Approach to Christianity among the Sediq-Truku of Taiwan” in Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous People

"Making God’s Country: A Phenomenological Approach to Christianity among the Sediq-Truku of Taiwan" in Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous People, edited by…

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New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being

New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being Géraldine Mossière, editor Springer, 2022 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-06263-6 Inspired by the neoliberal paradigm that transposes…

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“The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital” in The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures

"The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital" in The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine…

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“Nowhere and Everywhere” in Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

"Nowhere and Everywhere" in Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy, David Henig,…

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“Of Boars and Men: Indigenous Knowledge and Co-Management in Taiwan” in Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond

“Of Boars and Men: Indigenous Knowledge and Co-Management in Taiwan” in Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond Scott Simon Springer,…

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“On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation” in Spirit Possession Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon

"On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation" in Spirit Possession Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon, Éva Pócs and…

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“Spiritualité et santé : Deux champs pour repenser les études sur le religieux au Québec ?” dans Étudier la religion au Québec : Regards d’ici et d’ailleurs

"Spiritualité et santé : Deux champs pour repenser les études sur le religieux au Québec ?" dans Étudier la religion…

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What Was Said to Me: The Life of a Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman

What Was Said to Me: The Life of a Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman Ruby Peter with Helene Demers Royal BC…

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Editors comment, Spring 2022 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2022

Editors’ comment, Spring 2022 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2022 By Maggie Cummings, Anglophone Member-at-Large and Olivia Roy-Malo,…

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Learning about Clandestine Migration through Art and Anthropology

Learning about Clandestine Migration through Art and Anthropology By Mélissa Gauthier, University of Victoria, Winner of the 2022 CASCA Award…

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Teaching Across Disciplinary and Experiential Borders

Teaching Across Disciplinary and Experiential Borders Megan Graham, PhD2022 CATE Instructor Recipient As anthropologists, we are accustomed to immersing ourselves…

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The Utopia of Peer Evaluations of Teaching – A Cautionary Tale

Mary-Lee Mulholland (Mount Royal University) The Utopia of Peer Evaluations of Teaching – A Cautionary Tale In The Utopia of…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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La récipiendaire de la Bourse Salisbury/Salisbury Award Winner 2022

The Salisbury Award, given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, recognizes an exceptional anthropology PhD candidate at a Canadian…

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Congratulations to Brian Thom on Provost’s Award in Engaged Scholarship / Félicitations à Brian Thom pour le prix Provost

Congratulations to Brian Thom, CASCA member and associate Professor at the dep. of anthropology of University of Victoria, on Provost's…

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Professor Emerita Monica Heller received an honourary doctorate from the Autonomous University of Barcelona / La professeure émérite Monica Heller a reçu un doctorat honoris causa de l’Université autonome de Barcelone

The UAB has awarded Monica Heller, professor emerita at the University of Toronto, an honourary doctorate at the suggestion of…

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Congratulations to William Campbell for the 2021 Gordon and Gary Shepherd Graduate Student Paper Award / Félicitations à William Campbell pour le prix de la meilleure publication étudiante Gordon et Gary Shepherd

Congratulations to our member William Campbell (PhD candidate at the University of Victoria) on receiving the 2021 Gordon and Gary…

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Digitized journal CULTURE (1981- 1997)- Numérisation du bulletin CULTURE (1981-1997)

The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) announces complete and free Open Access to its newly digitized journal CULTURE. This bilingual publication ran from 1981 to 1997, before…

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New Instagram campaign “Tips for Students” UofT Department of Anthropology / Nouvelle campagne Instagram “Astuces pour les étudiant.e.s” du département d’anthropologie de l’U.Toronto

The UofT Department of Anthropology has launched an Instagram campaign to inform students about different aspects of student life: tips,…

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NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie – félicitations!

NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie - félicitations! Félicitations à Marie-Michèle Grenon qui a brillamment…

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Our members are in the news/ Suivez nos membres dans les médias

Walter Callaghan, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, talks about what motivates people to be foreign fighters in…

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Call for Submissions: The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize / Appel de dossier: Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee

la version française suit The Canadian Anthropology Society is seeking submissions for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize. Established in 2018, the…

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Call for papers: Crises We Live By

Call for Papers Crises We Live By: a Metaphorical Approach to the Crisis Transdisciplinary Conference at the University of Potsdam,…

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Culture Calls/Appels pour Culture

La version française suit Culture is CASCA’s bi-annual and bilingual electronic newsletter. Our next call for submissions of articles and…

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In Memoriam: Carole Marie Farber (1944-2022)

In Memoriam: Carole Marie Farber (1944-2022) Carole Marie Farber was born in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, USA and died in London,…

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In Memoriam – Éric Schwimmer (1923-2022)

In Memoriam - Éric Schwimmer (1923-2022) Éric Schwimmer, membre honoré de la CASCA en 2015, nous a quitté le 8…

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The Right to Be Rural

The Right to Be Rural Edited by Karen R. Foster and Jennifer Jarman, 2022, University of Alberta Press https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/1019-9781772125832-right-to-be-rural In this collection, researchers…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

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Unfolding Crisis and Adaptive Methods: Social Media and Collaborative Narrative during COVID19 Research

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Les Dépaysements. Entre perte de sens et connaissance : retour sur une expérience interdisciplinaire en arts visuels et en anthropologie

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(A)wake in the World Wide Web: A reflection and imagistic evocation

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@Anthropology4Homosapiens: A Reflection on Doing Public Anthropology through Social Media

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Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Across Geographical Spaces: A Conversation with Dr. Walter Little & Dr. Lynne Milgram

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“More Than Human Anthropology” YouTube Channel (by Alex Oehler)

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Colloque annuel de la CASCA 2021 à l’Université de Regina (mai 11-15 2022)

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2021 CASCA Conference at the University of Regina (May 11-15 2022)

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Culture Calls/Appels pour Culture

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2021 CASCA Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards / Prix d’excellence des étudiant(e)s finissants en anthropologie 2021 de la CASCA

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NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie – félicitations!

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Hearing Palestine – A new initiative by Alejandro Paz and Jens Hanssen in collaboration with the Institute for Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto

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Congratulations! Leslie McCartney and Gwich’in Tribal Council received the Oral History Association Book Award

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Congratulations! Scott Simon nominated for the CIPS second annual blog award

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Congratulations! Kamari Maxine Clarke awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

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Ressources en santé mentale / Mental Health Resources

Ressources en santé mentale / Mental Health Resources Please check out this helpful list of mental health resources for members…

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“Tips for Students” now on Instagram

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In Memoriam – Claude Bariteau (1943-2021)

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In Memoriam: Hugo de Burgos (1963-2021)

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In Memoriam: Serge Bouchard (1947-2021)

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In Memoriam: Stanley Barrett (1938-2021)

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Concepts and Persons

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Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame

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Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Policy Gain or Confidence Game

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Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation

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Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality

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Emergent Axioms of Violence (Special Issue of Anthropological Forum)

Emergent Axioms of Violence (Special Issue of Anthropological Forum; Volume 31, Issue 3, 2021) Guest Edited By Antonio Sorge and…

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Disability and COVID-19 (Special Issue of Disability Studies)

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Digital Selves: Embodiment and Subjectivity in New Media Cultures in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Special Issue of Digital Icons)

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CASCA 2021 Annual Meeting at University of Guelph

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The Disentanglement Project

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Innovating Anthropological Pedagogy: Insights for the present and future

In what ways do we, as ‘anthropology teachers’, provide opportunities for our students to better understand the important anthropological insights they can bring to creative problem-solving and engagement in the real world?
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Salisbury Report: Tracing Regimes of Value in the Mackenzie Basin

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Salisbury Report: Challenging Japan’s Low Birthrate: How Japanese Nonprofit Organizations Focused on Fathering Are Affecting Men’s Performances of Masculinity

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Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed/Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land

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Daniel Tubb on the fieldwork for his new ethnography Shifting Livelihoods

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Weaver-Tremblay Award Winner: Dr. Francine Saillant

It is our privilege to announce that we will be presenting Dr Francine Saillant from Laval University with the Weaver-Tremblay Award during…

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CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence – 2021 Recipients

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Salisbury Award Winner 2021

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CASCA members stand out

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Government of Canada honours Canada’s top social sciences and humanities researchers

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Symposium at CASCA 2021 – Sexual Harassment in Anthropology: Reflecting on Engagements and Entanglements

 

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Call for Submissions: The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize

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Call for collaborators: Ecologies of Harm: Mapping Contexts of Vulnerability in the Time of Covid-19

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In Memoriam: J. E. Michael Kew

J. E. Michael Kew (1932-2020)
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In Memoriam: Jill Le Clair

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In Memoriam: David Lumsden

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Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet

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Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships

While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order has undermined Indigenous law, creating gaps and sometimes distortions, Indigenous peoples have taken up the challenge of rebuilding their laws, governance, and economies. Indigenous conceptions of land and property are central to this project.
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The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement

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Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS

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The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China

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On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise Affect, Tourism, Belize

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Centering the Margins of Anthropology’s History: Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14

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Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a Soiot approach to animals and landscapes, which transcends the wild-tame dichotomy.
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Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya

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Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (4th Canadian edition)

Taking a unique, problem-based approach, the fourth Canadian edition of this text encourages students to apply a critical mindset to the key concepts and methods outlined throughout the textbook.
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Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains

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Editors comment, Spring 2021 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2021

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CASCA 2021 Annual Meeting at University of Guelph/Le colloque de la CASCA 2021 à l’Université de Guelph

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Remote Teaching and the Revival of Time-tested Styles and Tools

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Salisbury Report: Tracing Regimes of Value in the Mackenzie Basin

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Salisbury Report: Challenging Japan’s Low Birthrate: How Japanese Nonprofit Organizations Focused on Fathering Are Affecting Men’s Performances of Masculinity

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Daniel Tubb on the fieldwork for his new ethnography Shifting Livelihoods

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Dr. Francine Saillant, récipiendaire du Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2021 Weaver-Tremblay Award Winner: Dr. Francine Saillant

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La CASCA est ravie de dévoiler les tout premiers récipiendaires du Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la CASCA (2021)/CASCA is delighted to announce the inaugural recipients of the CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (2021)

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La récipiendaire de la Bourse Salisbury Award Winner 2021

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Congratulations – Wendy Wickwire awarded the CSN-RÉC Book Prize

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Symposium at CASCA 2021 – Sexual Harassment in Anthropology: Reflecting on Engagements and Entanglements

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Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee/Call for Submissions: The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize

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In Memoriam: David Reese Counts (2 May 1934—11 November 2020)

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Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet

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The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement

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The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China

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À la reconquête de la souveraineté : mouvements autochtones en Amérique latine et en Océanie

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Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (4th Canadian edition)

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Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains

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President’s welcome

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Mot de bienvenue de la présidente

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Colloque annuel de la CASCA 2021 à l’Université de Guelph

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2021 CASCA Conference at the University of Guelph

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Le rapport du Sondage de la CASCA sur le harcèlement sexuel et une invitation à participer au groupe de travail

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CASCA’s Sexual Harassment Survey Report and Working Group Invitation

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Experimentation as Resilience

By Alex Oehler, University of Regina Is resilience merely a kind of toughness, mixed with “the capacity to recover quickly…

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Combattre les discriminations : résistance ou résilience ? Retour sur l’exposition Archéo-Sexisme et la charte Chantier-Éthique

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Un village pour élever des enfants, des enfants pour lever un village

Par Olivia Roy-Malo, Université Laval Lors d’un séjour de recherche à Lac-Édouard, petit village isolé dans une région rurale québécoise,…

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Repenser la résilience en anthropologie

Par Gabriella Santini, Université d'Ottawa La résilience est souvent entendue comme étant la capacité d’un système à absorber les perturbations…

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Announcement of the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize 2020 / Annonce du Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee 2020

La version française suit Labrecque-Lee Book Prize 2020 The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour…

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2020 CASCA Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards / Prix d’Excellence des Étudiants Finissants en Anthropologie 2020 de la CASCA

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

La version française suit CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) The CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) have been established…

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Prix Weaver-Tremblay Award 2021: Call for Nominations/Appel de candidatures

English follows Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2021 En 1992, la Société d'anthropologie appliquée au Canada créait le prix Weaver-Tremblay. Marc-Adélard Tremblay et…

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Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee/Call for Submissions: The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize

English follows Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) est à la recherche de candidatures pour…

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Appel de candidatures, Comité de sélection du Prix Labrecque-Lee/ Call for Nominations, Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Selection Committee

English follows Comité du Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee La Société canadienne d’anthropologie —The Canadian Anthropology Society— (CASCA) est à la…

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Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales

Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in…

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CASCA Members in the News / Des membres de la CASCA dans les médias

"USask professor says it’s normal to feel ‘fatigued’ amid coronavirus pandemic" (Global News, August 5th, 2020, Dr. Pamela Downe, University…

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Marianne Ignace at the Royal Society of Canada • Class of 2020

Marianne Ignace (Departments of Linguistics & Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University, and CASCA member) has been named a Fellow of…

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CASCA-CUBA 2018 – L’anthropologie repensée : le rapport de la pratique non académique à la discipline, ou être anthropologue sans le titre

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CASCA members on Wikipedia

Some CASCA members are listed on the Canadian anthropologists category on Wikipedia.

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Launch of Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies

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Mental Health Resource List (CPSA)/Ressources en santé mentale (ACSP)

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ACPPU- Réouverture des collèges et universités : plans pour la session d’automne/CAUT- Re-opening colleges and universities: Fall semester plans

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D’espoir et d’environnement? Nouvelles ruralités et mise en valeur de la nature au Bas-Saint-Laurent

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An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize.

An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize. James B. Waldram, University of New Mexico…

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Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements Edited by Vered Amit and Noel B. SalazarEpilogue by Karen…

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Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil

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Archaeologies of the Heart

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…

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Editors comment, Spring 2020 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2020

By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large & Marie Michèle Grenon, Membre actif Francophone (La version française suit) We live in gripping…

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COVID-19: Calling All Outbreak Ethnographers!

By Pamela J. Downe, University of Saskatchewan COVID-19 is sweeping headlines. Incidence rates, death counts, risk factors, and public health…

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COVID-19 : Appel à tous les ethnographes s’intéressant aux épidémies

Par Pamela J. Downe, Université de la Saskatchewan La COVID-19 monopolise toutes les manchettes. Les taux d’incidence, le décompte des…

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Undoing Fieldwork in a Time of Epidemic

By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa and Visiting Scholar, University of Guam On January 21, I flew from Taipei to…

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Surviving the Apocalypse, Again

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Mutating Consciousness in the Time of Pandemic

By James Depew, Algoma University & David Burty, Western University For capitalism to work at full speed it needs bodies…

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Keeping in Touch and Sharing Resources: The Network for Critical Pedagogy in Canadian Anthropology Facebook Group

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Teaching Remotely with COVID-19

By Marley Duckett, University of Saskatchewan Two days before I was scheduled to teach a graduate class on campus, I…

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Disrupted Lives and Uncertainties in the Time of Pandemic

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Coronavirus Horror: A Reflection on Abjection and Embodied Weapons

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Faire et défaire la vulnérabilité au temps des catastrophes

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Making the Familiar Strange: Studying Bison Reintroductions in the Land of Living Skies

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Student Research Feature

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Appel de dossier/ Call for Submission: Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee Book Prize – 2020

(English follows) Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) est à la recherche de candidatures pour…

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Appel de dossier/ Call for Submission: Prix étudiant du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA pour une communication en anthropologie féministe / CASCA Women’s Network Award for Student Paper in Feminist Anthropology

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Call for CASCA – Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards / Appel pour le Prix d’excellence des étudiants finissants en anthropologie

(La version française suit) Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and…

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2020 CASCA Weaver-Tremblay Award Winner: Dr. Bruce Granville Miller / Le gagnant du prix CASCA Weaver-Tremblay 2020: Bruce Granville Miller

(La version française suit) It is my privilege to announce that we will be presenting Bruce Granville Miller, Doctor of…

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Le récipiendaire de la Bourse Salisbury Award Winner 2020

(La version française suit) The Salisbury Award, given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, recognizes an exceptional anthropology PhD…

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Membres émérites de la CASCA Fellows 2020

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Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee Award 2019 Prize Announcement / Annonce du Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee 2019

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CASCA’s 2019 Student Poster Prizes / Prix d’affiches étudiantes 2019 de la CASCA

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CASCA Members in the News

‘Tiny acts of solidarity’ are bridging our social distance. Can they last? (The Star, March 29, 2020, Dr. Martha Radice,…

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Richard F. Salisbury’s Wikipedia page

A Wikipedia page has been prepared for Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury (1926 - 1989), founder of the Department of Anthropology…

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2019 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award Winner

By Betty J. Harris, Association for Africanist Anthropology, March 10, 2020 The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is pleased to…

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StatsCan Survey – Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians / Sondage StatsCan – Répercussions de la COVID-19 sur les Canadiens

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In Memoriam: Dr. Marilyn Silverman (1945-2019)

By Malcolm Blincow, Associate Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, York University & Ryan James, Instructor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, York University After…

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Extracting Home in the Oil Sands Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada, 1st Edition

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I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia

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Sahara Occidental Conflit oublié, population en mouvement

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Resolution of Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation

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Résolution officielle de solidarité avec la nation Wet’suwet’en

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Mot de bienvenue de la présidente

Par Sabrina Doyon, Université Laval C’est avec un très grand plaisir que je vous souhaite la bienvenue, chers anciens et…

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President’s Welcome

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2019 CASCA-AAA Conference Details

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The Careers Expo at CASCA-AAA 2019: Promoting Professions in Anthropological Practice

By Cathleen Crain (LTG Associates) and Jaime Yard (Douglas College) Professional, practicing, and applied (PPA) anthropologists have taken the tools…

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2020 CASCA Conference / Colloque annuel de la CASCA de 2020

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CASCA Sexual Harassment Survey / Sondage de la CASCA sur le hacèlement sexuel

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Best Practices for a Non-Alienating Workplace: Treating Contingent Faculty with Respect

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Climate change and glacier melting at the core of the Europe: The case of Mont Blanc

By Elisabetta Dall’Ò, Department of Cultures, Politics, and Society, University of Turin, Italy This paper describes the preliminary results of…

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Enjeu global, solution individuelle : le reboisement climatique au Québec

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Profit ou écologie ? Double contrainte et résilience Yami

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Peak conference? Let’s hope so

By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick The annual anthropology meetings will be in Vancouver from November 20 to 24,…

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Rediscovering World1: Interdependency and Climate Change

By Vita Yakovlyeva, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta On Thursday, May 30, 2019, I was woken up…

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2019 CASCA Weaver-Tremblay Award Winner: Dr. Noel Dyck / Le gagnant du prix CASCA Weaver-Tremblay 2019: Dr. Noel Dyck

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2019 CASCA Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards / Prix d’Excellence des Étudiants Finissants en Anthropologie 2019 de la CASCA

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Governor General’s Innovation Awards winners / Les lauréats du Prix du gouverneur général pour l’innovation – Chief Dr. Ronald Ignace and Dr. Marianne Ignace

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SSHRC Impact Partnership Award Announcement: Dr. Marianne Ignace / Le prix Impact Partenariat du CRSH décerné à Dr. Marianne Ignace

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Roseberry-Nash Award Announcement: Daniel Salas

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Aerial Imagination in Cuba: Above the Rooftops

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A Non-manifesto For the Worth of Public Anthropology

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In Praise of Small Places

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Needle-Threading While Bike-Riding, Balancing Scales in a Hailstorm, and Other Metaphors of Care

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Changing Climates / Changer d’air, CASCA-AAA, Vancouver, 20-24 Nov. 2019

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Two awards for Kathy M’Closkey

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2019 American Anthropology Master’s Career Survey

A team of graduate students from the University of North Texas, in cooperation with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and…

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Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings

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The Monk’s Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity

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An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic

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Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice

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Les Bois-Brûlés de l’Outaouais. Une étude ethnoculturelle des Métis de la Gatineau

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Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry

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Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism

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The Silent G

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Devenirs de l’ethnologie / Whither Ethnology?

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ReNEW Partnership for Best Practice: Anthropology in Action in a Community-based Setting

By Stacy Lee Lockerbie PhD, Halley Silversides MILS, and Suzanne Goopy PhD, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary The Refugee…

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Editors’ comment, Fall 2018 issue / Mot des éditeurs, numéro d’automne 2018

By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large, Van Troi Tran, membre actif francophone Welcome to the Fall 2018 issue of Culture, the newsletter of…

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President’s Welcome

By Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan Welcome to the new issue of Culture! It is also a new year for…

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Mot de bienvenue de la présidente

Par Pamela Downe, Université de la Saskatchewan Bienvenue dans ce nouveau numéro de Culture! C’est aussi une nouvelle année pour…

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Annonce du thème du congrès conjoint CASCA-AAA: Changer d’air

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Announcing the CASCA-AAA joint conference theme: Changing climates

By Martha Radice and Pamela Downe We’re delighted to announce that we’re making great progress on organizing the joint CASCA-AAA conference to…

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Trauma-Informed Anthropology and the #Me Too Movement: Bringing Marginalized Voices into Mainstream Discourse

By Samantha Moore, University of Saskatchewan The recent #MeToo movement has drawn much attention to both interpersonal and structural power…

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Taking Up Space – The Role of Safer Spaces in the #MeToo Era

By Aine Dolin and Adrienne Ratushniak, University of Saskatchewan As with other aspects of the #MeToo movement, the prevalence of…

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Moving Forward with #MeToo: An Analysis of Anthropological Graduate Education in the Field

By Marley Duckett and Mika Rathwell, University of Saskatchewan Few events in recent history have had such far-reaching social impacts…

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Singing the Ancestors: Indigenous Anthropology Graduate Wins Polaris Music Prize

By Martha Radice, Brian Noble, and Liesl Gambold, Dalhousie University Dalhousie University’s anthropologists were bursting with pride in September when…

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Entangled Identities: Ritual Performance of Alevi in an Urban Area

By Seyhan Kayhan-Kilic, Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology Alevi is a religious community found in Turkey, the Balkans, Iran and Syria. The Turkish, Kurdish and…

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CASCA-CUBA en Contrapunteo

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Global Survey of Anthropological Practice

By the CASCA Labour Committee The CASCA Labour Committee is dedicated to examining labour practices and precarious employment in the…

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Résultats du sondage sur le libre accès d’Anthropologica et décisions

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Anthropologica Open Access Journal Decisions and Survey Results

By Tad McIlwraith, University of Guelph and Caura Wood, York University Survey Highlights Thank you to all members and Anthropologica…

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CAUT Report: Out of the Shadows

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recently published its findings from a national survey of contract academic staff. Out…

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World’s first Indigenous law degree to be offered at University of Victoria

A new law program at the University of Victoria is the world’s first to combine the intensive study of both …

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Anthropologica: Call for papers / Appel à contributions

Anthropologica, the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), invites you to submit articles for peer review. We welcome articles…

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Call for Submissions: The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize / Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee

The Canadian Anthropology Society –  la Société canadienne d'anthropologie (CASCA) is seeking submissions for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize.  Established in 2018,…

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Call for contributions: Teaching and Learning Anthropology

Teaching and Learning Anthropology (TLA) publishes analytical, reflective, and review articles on the topic of teaching and learning anthropology. The journal…

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2019 déclarée Année internationale des langues autochtones par l’UNESCO / UNESCO has proclaimed 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages

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Two CASCA members elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada / Deux membres de la CASCA élues à la Société royale du Canada

CASCA members Janice Graham (Dalhousie University) and Wenona Giles (York University) have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of…

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Patrick Lee has been awarded Governor General’s Gold Medal

Patrick Lee (MA 2018, University of Calgary) has received the Governor General's Gold Medal in November. The Governor General’s Academic…

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In memoriam: Dr. Dorothy Ellen Ayers Counts

Dorothy came into this world on 8 January 1937 in San Antonio, Texas, and departed on 27 October 2018 in…

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In memoriam: Dr. Graham Watson, Professor Emeritus

For those who have not heard the sad news yet, Dr. Graham Watson (Professor Emeritus) passed away on November 9, 2018 of natural…

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Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice

Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice Charles Stafford, Ellen R. Judd and Eona Bell (eds.) Bloomsbury Academic, LSE Monographs…

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Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine

Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine Julie Laplante Berghahn Books, 2018 Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of…

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Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas

Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas Karine Gagné University of Washington Press, 2019 Regional geopolitical processes…

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Anthropology Otherwise: Thoughts on a Graphic Novel Experiment

By Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, Carleton University In this blog post, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan talks about the challenges of adapting her ethnographic work…

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Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights

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Standardizing Minority Languages : Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery

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Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte

Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte Michael Lambek University of Toronto Press, 2018 Island in the Stream introduces an…

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The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk

The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman (editors) University of North Carolina…

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Memory

Memory Philippe Tortell, Mark Turin and Margot Young (editors) UBC Press, 2018 November 11, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of…

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Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive

Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive Kirsty Reid and Fiona Paisley (editors) Routledge, 2017 Sources…

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Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces

Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem (editors) Palgrave MacMillan, 2018 Bringing together…

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Russia: Anthropological Insights

Russia: Anthropological Insights Petra Rethmann University of Toronto Press, 2018 This book offers a brief introduction to the anthropological study of…

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Feminism and the Politics of Childhood 

Feminism and the Politics of Childhood  Rachel Rosen and Katherine Twamley (editors) UCL Press, 2018 Feminism and the Politics of…

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Culture Newsletter Special Issue: Editors’ Comment/Numéro spécial de Culture: Note des éditeurs/Boletín Culture edición especial: Comentario de los editores

By Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large, Van Troi Tran, membre actif francophone We are pleased to present a special issue of…

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It’s anthropologies, not anthropology

By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick A little auto-ethnography. Writing this, I look east over the white crested waves…

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CASCA-Cuba and Comparing Japanese Art Places with Fusterlandia as a Cuban Art Place

By Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia In addition to providing a great conference involvement and occasion for academic networking,…

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Le 7e art pour immortaliser CASCA-CUBA 2018

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Étant donné la singularité de l’évènement, j’ai profité de notre séjour à Santiago de…

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Gecarcinus ruricola: Or, Our Extended Stay in Cuba

By Hannah Quinn, University of Toronto and Bronwyn Frey, University of Toronto After a long day of travel and acclimatization…

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A CASCA-Cuba Travelogue: Some Reflections and the Internet Challenge

By Simone Poliandri, Bridgewater State University When CASCA announced that its 2018 annual meeting would be hosted by the Universidad…

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El ajiaco cubano

María Vicenta Borges Bartutis, Universidad de La Habana, Teresa Victoria Burunate Sánchez, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Cuba…

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Algunos apuntes atropellados –pero muy sinceros– a propósito de CASCA-Cuba 2018

Niurka Núñez González, Lázara Y. Carrazana Fuentes, Adrián Fundora García, María del Rosario Díaz Rodríguez, Proyecto de investigación “Antropología sociocultural…

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Cubano o afrocubano: una reflexión en torno al término

Mercedes Cuesta Dublín, Universidad de Oriente La búsqueda de identidad que particulariza la realidad global actual, encuentra en los países…

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Paquete Excavation. Article Inspired by the Investigation of Fidel Alejandro Rodriguez, Universidad de la Habana

By Julie Rausenberger, University of Antwerp, Adele Bibault, University of Victoria, Kate Pasmans, University of Victoria Cuban Ethnographic Field School,…

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Mayas, Aztecas, Y Aruacos. Tres Pueblos y un Mismo Espacio

Roberto Ordúñez Fernández, Gabinete de Arqueología de Baracoa Nos proponemos con esta investigación ver a los antiguos pueblos de América…

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Imagining a Canadian Anthropology Community

By Emma Bider, Carleton University I was not particularly surprised when I read Culture’s latest theme and call for submissions. Anthropologists…

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The Prisoner’s Dilemma

By Christina Holmes, St. Francis Xavier University, and Udo Krautwurst, University of Prince Edward Island The anthropologist comes home from…

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Oportunidades para construir relaciones entre colegas canadienses y cubanos

María Vicenta Borges Bartutis, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba Abracé la idea de mi colega y amigo Manuel Rivero de…

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Learning Cuban history without speaking Spanish

By Kanika Varma, University of Victoria As part of the University of Victoria’s Cuba Ethnographic Field School: Contrapunteo, I had the…

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To Educate is a Labour of Love: Anthropology in the classroom. A Glance at the work of Dr. Alina Garcia

By Jessica Bridges, Oklahoma State University, Jacob Derksen, University of Victoria, Jemma Kosalko, University of Victoria, Cuba Ethnographic Field School 2018…

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“Buenos dias. No hablo español.” Auditory Experiences of Cuban culture

By Kanika Varma, University of Victoria As part of the University of Victoria’s Cuba Ethnographic Field School: Contrapunteo, I had…

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Telecommunication Infrastructure, Public Space and CASCA Conference in Cuba

By Mingyuan Zhang, University of Western Ontario “Just go outside and look for the zombies, then you will find Wi-fi,”…

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Fieldnotes: Ramadan in Havana

By Huma Mohibullah, University of British Columbia Having been fascinated by Muslim beliefs, practices and aesthetics around the world, I…

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The Hill in Holguin

By Mark Currie, University of Ottawa There’s something about wanting to reach the top of a high point that I…

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Immigrants’ Traveling Foods: Counterpointing Immigrants’ Culinary Traditions in New York City

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L’expérience de déplacement des personnes ayant des incapacités dans la Ville de Québec : pour une anthropologie ontologique du handicap

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The Voice of a Dreamer

  By Robin Ridington, University of British Columbia (Password: dzfn)   Music, Voice and Sonic Experience have been essential to…

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“What do you know about any of the Indigenous languages spoken on the Island?” Reflections from a university classroom

  By Shiva Nourpanah , Saint Mary's University and Chantelle Spicer, Vancouver Island University “Do you know how many Indigenous languages are currently…

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By Deidre Rose, University of Guelph Tendencies associated with the growing corporatization of the university have been well-documented. One of…

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Anthropen: un dictionnaire francophone d’anthropologie ancré dans le contemporain en accès libre

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Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice

Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice Edited by Sonja Luehrmann Indiana University Press, 2017 How do people…

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Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon

Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon By Sarah Shulist University of Toronto Press, 2018 Transforming Indigeneity is an…

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A House of One’s Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador

A House of One's Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador Alicia Swilinski McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018 What…

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The Everyday Black Social Economy of Afro-Descendents in the Chocó, Colombia

The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets Chapter 6 - The Everyday Black Social Economy of Afro-Descendents…

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Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management

Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management launched in November 2017…

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Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, First Canadian Edition

Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, First Canadian Edition by Gary Ferraro, Susan Andreatta and Chris Holdsworth Nelson, 2018 Cultural Anthropology:…

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President’s Welcome / Mot de bienvenue de la Présidente

by/par Martha Radice President’s welcome Welcome to this new issue of Culture! As we pass the midpoint of the fall…

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Everything New is Old Again: On the Curiously Retrograde World of Big Data

by Mike Callaghan, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine At first glance, the current obsession with big data – and…

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Current Mapuche Struggles Over Land and State Violence in Argentina’s Patagonia

by Mariela Eva Rodríguez, National Council of Science and Technological Research (CONICET) and University of Buenos Aires, and Ana Vivaldi, Simon Fraser University On…

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Sept raisons pour venir à la rencontre annuelle de la CASCA à Santiago de Cuba

par Van Troi Tran, Université Laval Pour la première fois de son histoire, en 2018, la CASCA annuelle se déplacera…

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Seven reasons to go to the CASCA annual meeting in Santiago de Cuba

by Van Troi Tran, Université Laval In 2018, for the first time in its history, the CASCA annual meeting will…

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Canada 150 Research Chairs and the Devaluation of Canadian Talent

by Eric Henry, Saint Mary's University and Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan   Note: On September 29, 2017, the CASCA Executive Committee…

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10 life lessons from Homa Hoodfar / 10 leçons de vie de Homa Hoodfar

Image: Rosita Henry, Chandana Mathur and Homa Hoodfar by/par Nathalie Boucher, Organisme R.Es.P.I.R.E., and Martha Radice, Dalhousie University (la version française suit)…

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Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique

Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique Julie Soleil Archambault Chicago University Press, 2017 Now part…

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The Senses of the Interactional Self in the Uses of Pershing Square, Los Angeles

Senses in the Cities; Experiences of Urban Settings Chapter 6 - The Senses of the Interactional Self in the Uses…

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Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda by Laura Eramian Berghahn, 2017 This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide…

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Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Edited by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González. Society for…

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Contingent Legal Futures: Does the Ability to Exercise Aboriginal Rights and Title Turn on the Price of Gold?

ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures Chapter 6 - Contingent Legal Futures: Does the Ability to Exercise Aboriginal Rights and Title Turn…

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Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry

Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry Edited by Helene Basu, Roland Littlewood and Arne…

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Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies

Plurilinguisme et pluriculturalisme: Des modèles officiels dans le monde Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies By Donna Patrick Les…

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Urban Encounters: Art and the Public

Urban Encounters: Art and the Public Edited by Martha Radice and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017 Public art is on…

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Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation

Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation Edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne UBC Press,…

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Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland

A Fragmented Landscape: Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe Chapter 12 - Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland by…

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Homa Hoodfar – Awarded CASCA Women’s Network Lifetime Achievement Award

At the 2017 meeting of the CASCA Women's Network, Dr. Homa Hoodfar was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to…

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Dane-zaa Creation Story: A Dreamer’s Performance Transformed

by Robin Ridington, University of British Columbia   (password dzfn)   In 1967, I recorded the last Dane-zaa Dreamer, Charlie Yahey…

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CASCA Women’s Network Update

The CASCA Women's Network has had a very successful year. At the 2016 CASCA conference in Halifax, Martha Radice (Dal) organized…

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Les “pauvres” et la pauvreté dans le discours populaire

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval À la suite d'une important consultation populaire à travers le Québec en 2008-2009, le…

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Self-Help for Writers

By Daniel Tubb, UNB Fredericton Anthropologist, ethnographer, writer? What am I? I spent seven years as a grad student (two…

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Étudier la pauvreté sans reproduire les stéréotypes et les préjugés : Considéra-tions éthiques

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Don’t study the poor and powerless because everything you say about them will be…

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Gun-Shy: Travelling America by Allegory, A Nashville Tale

By Ian Puppe, Western University I woke on November 9th, 2016, planning to leave London, Ontario for Nashville, Tennessee. I…

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University of Ottawa Press, Mercury Series / les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, collection Mercure

Created in 1972, the Mercury series is the Canadian Museum of History’s primary vehicle for publishing academic research and includes…

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Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China

Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates Stanford University Press,…

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Being-in-the-water, or Socialisation through Interactions with water in the Thermal Baths of Taipei

Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices and Locales, edited by Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan, Joseph K.W. Hill Chapter…

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The People in Los Angeles Public Spaces Are Not Dead: Micro-Sociability in the Squares, Plazas, and Parks of the Postmodern Global City

Anthropology of Los Angeles; Place and Agency in an Urban Setting, edited by Jenny Banh and Melissa King The People in…

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Langue et légitimation: la construction discursive du locuteur francophone

Langue et légitimation : la construction discursive du locuteur francophone Par Laurence Arrighi et Annette Boudreau À travers le cas exemplaire…

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Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada

Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada Edited By Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier University of Toronto Press, 2017…

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Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics

Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics Blair Rutherford Indiana University Press, 2016 Blair Rutherford (Carleton University) has…

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Language practices at CASCA Conferences / Pratiques linguistiques aux colloques de la CASCA

In response to concerns raised by members about the place of French at the joint CASCA-IUAES conference, the CASCA Executive…

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Letter of support for the Associação Brasileira de Antropolgia (ABA)

By Donna Patrick, Carleton University Context The Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA, http://www.portal.abant.org.bro,  http://www.portal.abant.org.br, Facebook ABA.antropologia, Twitter @aba_ant) is currently being intimidated…

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Daniel Brasil

By Bruce Miller, UBC Daniel Brasil, a recent PhD graduate of the UBC department of anthropology,  has tragically died recently.…

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Aurevoir Arthur Manuel

  By Brian Noble, Dalhousie University Dear colleagues, students, friends I write to share the sad news from the international…

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Serious cuts to anthropo- logy in NZ

Five humanities departments face cuts Serious cuts to anthropology and archaeology departments at New Zealand's University of Otago   By Margot…

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CALL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE MASEUAL PEOPLE OF THE NORTHEASTERN SIERRA DE PUEBLA (MEXICO)

By Pierre Beaucage, Université de Montréal Cuetzalan, Puebla, December 13, 2016 In the Northeastern Sierra de Puebla, the maseual and…

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Culture, Vol. 10, No. 2

Culture, Vol. 10, No. 2 Welcome to the Fall 2016 issue of Culture, the newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology Society.…

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Welcome and bienvenue: Un mot de la Présidente

par/by Donna Patrick, Carleton University (English version follows) C’est avec plaisir que je souhaite la bienvenue aux anciens et aux nouveaux…

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CASCA / IUAES Ottawa

by/par Scott Simon, University of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa (la version française suit) Meeting with the IUAES : A Step Toward Decolonization As anthropologists,…

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Vidéo promo : Qu’est-ce que la CASCA? Promo Video: What is CASCA?

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Automne 2016, Vol. 10, No 2 Pendant plusieurs années, au baccalauréat et même en…

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The Kala Language Project: Kala Walo Nua

by John Wagner and Christine Schreyer, University of British Columbia, Okanagan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1ZuIUC74c Schreyer, Christine and John Wagner. 2015. The Kala…

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Les Possédés et leurs mondes : un projet en cours d’(auto)biographies visuelles

Par Frédéric Laugrand, Emmanuel Luce, et Anthony Melanson, Université Laval Automne 2016 Lancée en 2014, la série Les Possédés et leurs…

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Reindeer Herding + Photo Snapping + Video Shooting + Academic Production + Personal Growth = Multimedia Anthropology As Livelihood

by Nicolas Rasiulis, University of Ottawa Along with their reindeer, horses and dogs, approximately 200 Dukha Tsaatans (Rasiulis, 2016: 1, 3)…

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Projet Hiipii ᐦᐄᐲ : co-création d’un court métrage à Chisaisbi

Par Roxane Campeau et Antoine Amnotte-Dupuis, Université de Montréal Automne 2016 Au fil des séjours de terrains vécus en Eeyou Istchee…

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Getting on the Tenure Track

by Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Until June 2016, the plan was to move into my parents’ unfinished basement with…

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Borderline Canadianness: Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara

Borderline Canadianness: Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara Jane Helleiner University of Toronto Press, 2016 Canada and the United…

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The Heart of Helambu: Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal

The Heart of Helambu: Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal Tom O'Neill University of Toronto Press, 2016 Over the course of…

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Missing the Mark? Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania

Missing the Mark? Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania Edited by Naomi M. McPherson Demeter Press,…

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People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m’oon

People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon Charles Menzies University of Nebraska Press, 2016 People of the…

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The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s Most Historic Town”

  The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s Most Historic Town” Pamela Stern and Peter V. Hall University of British Columbia…

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Reading Cultural Anthropology: An Ethnographic Introduction

Reading Cultural Anthropology: An Ethnographic Introduction Edited by Pamela Stern Oxford University Press, 2015 This is a collection of 22…

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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

Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across…

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Subsistence Under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Subsistence Under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by James Murton, Dean Bavington and Carly Dokis McGill-Queens University Press, 2016…

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Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation

Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation  Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, Michelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin,…

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La présence d’un passé de violences

Par Karine Vanthuyne Le 10 mai 2013, devant la salle comble d’un tribunal de Guatemala   Ciudad, la juge Jazmín Barrios…

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Anthropologie des espaces côtiers et de la conservation environnementale

Par Sabrina Doyon et Catherine Sabinot Les enjeux sociaux, économiques et politiques locaux et globaux qui se  déploient au sein…

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Philippe Descola à Montréal

Voici une courte vidéo du passage de Philippe Descola à l'Université de Montréal. https://youtu.be/PNruYffhJBY Captation: Université de Montréal   Montage…

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Do These HIPs Lie?: Neoliberalism, Academic Plans, and the Budget Crisis at Mount Royal University.

  [getty src="530683033" width="507" height="338"] by Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University A common rhetoric finding its way into the academic…

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Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus

    Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus by David A.B. Murray Publisher:…

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The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Mille

    The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Miller Edited by Bruce Granville Miller and Darby C. Stapp.…

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Together We Survive: Ethnographic Intuitions, Friendships, and Conversations

Together We Survive: Ethnographic Intuitions, Friendships, and Conversations Edited by John S. Long and Jennifer S. H. Brown McGill-Queen’s University…

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Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives

Michael Lambek with Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives. HAU Books, University of…

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The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value.

    Michael Lambek (editor) 2015 The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value. University of Chicago Press. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo21263571.html…

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CASCA’s Ethics Taskforce

By Lorne Holyoak The Canadian Anthropology Society does not have its own code of ethics. While many Canadian anthropologists rely…

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Medical Anthropology Network

  [getty src="517450887" width="507" height="338"]The Medical Anthropology Network warmly invites expressions of interest from recent Anthropology graduates, and those whose…

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Salisbury Report: Human-Fish Relationships on the Northwest Coast

By Deidre Cullon, University of Victoria, PhD Candidate Figure 1: Salmon roasting at the fire, λubəkw. It is spring and fishing…

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CASCA’s EnvAnth-net Listserv 

You may not be aware of it, but CASCA currently has a listserv that is focussed on environmental and ecological…

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Masculinity and Exclusion at an HIV Clinic in Namibia

  by Mike Callaghan Moi University, Kenya Image 1: "Holding HAART," photography by author. Sometimes exclusion doesn’t work the way…

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La migration saisonnières des Mayas du Yucatán au Canada

Par Marie-France Labrecque, Université Laval L’ouvrage se penche sur le Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers, fruit d’un accord bilatéral entre…

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À l’ombre de la langue légitime. L’Acadie dans la francophonie

Par Annette Boudreau, professeure au département d’études françaises et directrice du CRLA (Centre de recherche en linguistique appliquée) de l’Université de…

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Le prix du corps

  Par Tiago Lemões et Cláudia Turra-Magni, Universidade Federal de Pelotas – PPGAnt-UFPel Notes sur les classifications alimentaires chez les  « personnes en…

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Lutte à la pauvreté : exclusion par le texte

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Au Québec, 842 000 individus vivent sous le seuil de faible revenu, soit 10,7 % de…

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