May 17, 2019
A team of graduate students from the University of North Texas, in cooperation with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA), are replicating…
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By Rylan Higgins, Saint Mary’s University I started writing for a non-academic audience nearly 20 years ago. As a member of a research team looking at the impacts of the oil and gas industry on southern Louisiana, I…
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An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic Katie Kilroy-Marac University of California Press, 2019 Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic…
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Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice “Changing Climates / Changer d’air”: AAA and CASCA are collaborating for the first time to host the 2019 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. The…
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Devenirs de l’ethnologie / Whither Ethnology? Numéro thématique de la revue Ethnologies / Special issue of Ethnologies Table des matières / Contents Devenirs de l’ethnologie / Wither Ethnology? Daniela Moisa, Van Troi…
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by Daniel Tubb, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UNB Fredericton There is a North American phenomenon of young people from rural areas and small towns and medium-sized cities moving to the Big City. In Canada, the…
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Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry Solen Roth UBC Press, 2019 Fragments of culture often become commodities when the tourism and heritage business showcases local…
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Les Bois-Brûlés de l’Outaouais. Une étude ethnoculturelle des Métis de la Gatineau Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, Guillaume Marcotte Presses de l’Université Laval, 2019 Les Métis ont longtemps été cantonnés à…
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By Amy Levine Caregiving, according to a doctor and leader of support services at a large US-based hospital, is “like being prepared for the fire drill at all times. You never know when you’ll have to drop everything,…
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Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings Edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully University of Toronto Press, 2018 The two major schools of thought in…
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Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism Joseph Weiss UBC Press, 2019 Colonialism in settler societies such as Canada depends on a certain understanding of the relationship between time and…
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The Monk’s Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity Paula Pryce Oxford University Press, 2016 The call to contemplative Christianity is not an easy one. Those who answer it set themselves to the…
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The Silent G Arpine Konyalian Grenier Corrupt Press, 2019 The collection comes from an inability to be distracted into an extinction of reality, extinction resulting from arcane democratization of matter over time, and…
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Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice By L. Jane McMillan UBC Press (Series: Law and Society), 2018 The name “Donald Marshall Jr.” is synonymous with “wrongful conviction” and the…
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Kathy M’Closkey, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, ON, was recently given two awards in recognition of her research and activism. The Navajo board of Dine’ Studies granted her the “Excellence in…
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By Stacy Lee Lockerbie PhD, Halley Silversides MILS, and Suzanne Goopy PhD, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary The Refugee and Newcomers Emotional Wellness (ReNEW) Partnership for Best Practice is a…
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