December 19, 2018
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Par Martha Radice et Pamela Downe Nous sommes ravies d’annoncer que nous faisons du grand progrès dans l’organisation du congrès conjoint CASCA-AAA qui aura lieu du 20 au 24 novembre, 2019. Les terres sur lesquelles…
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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 be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, November 20-24, 2019. The land on…
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Anthropologica, the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), invites you to submit articles for peer review. We welcome articles in both French and English that engage with any field of sociocultural…
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By Tad McIlwraith, University of Guelph and Caura Wood, York University Survey Highlights Thank you to all members and Anthropologica readers who responded to our Open Access Survey in July 2018. This article summarizes…
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By Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, Carleton University In this blog post, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan talks about the challenges of adapting her ethnographic work on sex tourism in Brazil into graphic novel form. Gringo Love:…
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Teaching and Learning Anthropology (TLA) publishes analytical, reflective, and review articles on the topic of teaching and learning anthropology. The journal also publishes original undergraduate and graduate…
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The Canadian Anthropology Society – la Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) is seeking submissions for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize. Established in 2018, the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize recognizes outstanding…
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Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas Karine Gagné University of Washington Press, 2019 Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a…
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Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Comme promis dans la dernière édition de notre blogue Culture, la Société canadienne d’anthropologie est fière de vous présenter un court métrage sur notre rencontre annuelle à Cuba,…
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The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recently published its findings from a national survey of contract academic staff. Out of the Shadows: Experiences of Contract Academic Staff documents the working…
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Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice Charles Stafford, Ellen R. Judd and Eona Bell (eds.) Bloomsbury Academic, LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology 2018. China has moved in recent decades from a…
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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 the Canadian Anthropology Society. We are excited to present a series…
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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 Arabic languages are appropriately used amongst the Alevi. In the…
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Feminism and the Politics of Childhood Rachel Rosen and Katherine Twamley (editors) UCL Press, 2018 Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and…
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By the CASCA Labour Committee The CASCA Labour Committee is dedicated to examining labour practices and precarious employment in the discipline, educating the membership, and putting forward recommendations to encourage…
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Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine Julie Laplante Berghahn Books, 2018 Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush,…
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Dorothy came into this world on 8 January 1937 in San Antonio, Texas, and departed on 27 October 2018 in Victoria, British Columbia after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer’s. She made the transition easily and…
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For those who have not heard the sad news yet, Dr. Graham Watson (Professor Emeritus) passed away on November 9, 2018 of natural causes in Abingdon, UK at the age of 83. Graham was one of the two founding members of the…
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Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte Michael Lambek University of Toronto Press, 2018 Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte,…
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Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (editors) Palgrave MacMillan, 2019 Global in scope, this original and thought-provoking collection applies new theory on legitimacy and…
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Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem (editors) Palgrave MacMillan, 2018 Bringing together a range of illustrative case studies coupled…
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Par Pamela Downe, Université de la Saskatchewan Bienvenue dans ce nouveau numéro de Culture! C’est aussi une nouvelle année pour les dirigeants de la CASCA puisque nous accueillons Marieka Sax (Université du Nord de la…
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By Marley Duckett and Mika Rathwell, University of Saskatchewan Few events in recent history have had such far-reaching social impacts as the #MeToo movement recently popularized in media. Originally coined in 2006 by…
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Patrick Lee (MA 2018, University of Calgary) has received the Governor General’s Gold Medal in November. The Governor General’s Academic Medal was first awarded in 1873 by the Earl of Dufferin, and has since become one…
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By Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan Welcome to the new issue of Culture! It is also a new year for the CASCA Executive as we welcome Marieka Sax (University of Northern British Columbia) as Anglophone Member at…
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Tad McIlwraith, Université de Guelph et Caura Wood, Université York Faits saillants du sondage Nous remercions tous les membres et tous les lecteurs d’Anthropologica qui ont répondu à notre sondage sur le libre accès en…
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Russia: Anthropological Insights Petra Rethmann University of Toronto Press, 2018 This book offers a brief introduction to the anthropological study of Russia. Moving beyond the conceptual iron curtain that has divided…
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By Martha Radice, Brian Noble, and Liesl Gambold, Dalhousie University Dalhousie University’s anthropologists were bursting with pride in September when they learned that one of their Honours alumni, operatic tenor and…
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Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive Kirsty Reid and Fiona Paisley (editors) Routledge, 2017 Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism provides an in-depth study of the…
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Standardizing Minority Languages : Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De Korne (editors) Routledge, 2018 This volume addresses a crucial, yet largely…
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By Aine Dolin and Adrienne Ratushniak, University of Saskatchewan As with other aspects of the #MeToo movement, the prevalence of gender-based violence and harassment at music festivals is not new information to those…
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The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman (editors) University of North Carolina Press, 2018 From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York…
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By Samantha Moore, University of Saskatchewan The recent #MeToo movement has drawn much attention to both interpersonal and structural power imbalances within our society, including constructions of violence and…
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CASCA members Janice Graham (Dalhousie University) and Wenona Giles (York University) have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada for the promotion of 2018. Janice Graham is an internationally recognized…
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A new law program at the University of Victoria is the world’s first to combine the intensive study of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous law, enabling people to work fluently across the two realms. Students will…
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