October 24, 2017
by/par Martha Radice President’s welcome Welcome to this new issue of Culture! As we pass the midpoint of the fall term, the CASCA-IUAES conference of May seems a long way away already. It marked not only a remarkable…
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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) 10 life lessons from Homa Hoodfar Nathalie…
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A Fragmented Landscape: Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe Chapter 12 – Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland by Robin Whitaker and Goretti Horgan Berghahn, 2016 Since World War II, abortion…
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by Eric Henry, Saint Mary’s University and Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan Note: On September 29, 2017, the CASCA Executive Committee sent a letter to the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, and Ted…
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ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures Chapter 6 – Contingent Legal Futures: Does the Ability to Exercise Aboriginal Rights and Title Turn on the Price of Gold? by Andie Diane Palmer Routledge, 2017…
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by Mariela Eva Rodríguez, National Council of Science and Technological Research (CONICET) and University of Buenos Aires, and Ana Vivaldi, Simon Fraser University On August 1st 2017, Santiago Maldonado, a 28-year-old…
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by Mike Callaghan, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine At first glance, the current obsession with big data – and especially its uses in social science – seems very much of the moment: an exciting new…
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Plurilinguisme et pluriculturalisme: Des modèles officiels dans le monde Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies By Donna Patrick Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2016 Rares sont…
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Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique Julie Soleil Archambault Chicago University Press, 2017 Now part and parcel of everyday life almost everywhere including across much of Africa,…
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Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda by Laura Eramian Berghahn, 2017 This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide Rwanda investigates how residents of a small town grapple…
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Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Edited by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González. Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges/American Anthropological Association,…
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Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation Edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne UBC Press, 2017 Power through Testimony documents how survivors are remembering and…
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par Van Troi Tran, Université Laval Pour la première fois de son histoire, en 2018, la CASCA annuelle se déplacera à Cuba pour sa rencontre. Nous serons accueillis à l’Universidad de Oriente située à Santiago de Cuba du…
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by Van Troi Tran, Université Laval In 2018, for the first time in its history, the CASCA annual meeting will be held in Cuba. Our host, the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba, will welcome us from the 16th to…
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Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry Edited by Helene Basu, Roland Littlewood and Arne S. Steinforth LIT Verlag, 2017 Since more than a century, anthropologists and psychiatrists…
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Senses in the Cities; Experiences of Urban Settings Chapter 6 – The Senses of the Interactional Self in the Uses of Pershing Square, Los Angeles By Nathalie Boucher Routledge, 2018 Urban landscapes are usually thought…
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Urban Encounters: Art and the Public Edited by Martha Radice and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017 Public art is on the urban agenda. Given recent claims about the importance of…
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