May 13, 2017
At the 2017 meeting of the CASCA Women’s Network, Dr. Homa Hoodfar was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Feminist Anthropology in Canada. We are pleased to publish Sally Cole’s description of…
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Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices and Locales, edited by Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan, Joseph K.W. Hill Chapter 10 – Being-in-the-water, or Socialisation through Interactions with water…
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Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates Stanford University Press, 2017 Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most…
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The CASCA Women’s Network has had a very successful year. At the 2016 CASCA conference in Halifax, Martha Radice (Dal) organized the annual WN sponsored Cross-Disciplinary Panel on Feminist Research and Pedagogy, with…
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by Robin Ridington, University of British Columbia (password dzfn) In 1967, I recorded the last Dane-zaa Dreamer, Charlie Yahey telling his culture’s creation story in the Beaver language. As he spoke into my tape…
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Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada Edited By Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier University of Toronto Press, 2017 Entangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic…
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Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Don’t study the poor and powerless because everything you say about them will be used against them – Laura Nader[1] La pauvreté comme sujet d’étude Est-ce qu’étudier la pauvreté…
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Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics Blair Rutherford Indiana University Press, 2016 Blair Rutherford (Carleton University) has a new book, Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics.…
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By Ian Puppe, Western University I woke on November 9th, 2016, planning to leave London, Ontario for Nashville, Tennessee. I stumbled into the kitchen, made coffee and looked out the window. The sky was grey and…
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Langue et légitimation : la construction discursive du locuteur francophone Par Laurence Arrighi et Annette Boudreau À travers le cas exemplaire du locuteur francophone, les contributions réunies dans Langue et…
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Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval À la suite d’une important consultation populaire à travers le Québec en 2008-2009, le ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solitarité sociale a identifié la lutte aux préjugés comme…
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By Daniel Tubb, UNB Fredericton Anthropologist, ethnographer, writer? What am I? I spent seven years as a grad student (two in coursework, two and a half in both fieldwork and writing) and two as a postdoc. Only lately…
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Anthropology of Los Angeles; Place and Agency in an Urban Setting, edited by Jenny Banh and Melissa King The People in Los Angeles Public Spaces Are Not Dead: Micro-Sociability in the Squares, Plazas, and Parks of the…
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Created in 1972, the Mercury series is the Canadian Museum of History’s primary vehicle for publishing academic research and includes numerous landmark contributions in the disciplines of Canadian history, archaeology,…
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In response to concerns raised by members about the place of French at the joint CASCA-IUAES conference, the CASCA Executive Committee would like to issue the following statement: CASCA is a bilingual association, which…
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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…
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By Bruce Miller, UBC Daniel Brasil, a recent PhD graduate of the UBC department of anthropology, has tragically died recently. I learned from the Brasilian consulate in Vancouver that he was helping some construction…
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By Brian Noble, Dalhousie University Dear colleagues, students, friends I write to share the sad news from the international Indigenous community that Art Manuel, one of the world-leading voices and activists for…
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