June 6, 2023
Labrecque-Lee Book 2022 Award Announcement The Labrecque-Lee Book Award was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists, Marie-France Labrecque and Richard Borshay Lee. The…
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De coutume, le thème du numéro printanier de Culture correspond à celui retenu pour notre colloque annuel. Cette année, les membres de la CASCA se réuniront plutôt à l’automne lors de notre rencontre conjointe avec…
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Résolution: Adoption de pratiques de rédaction neutre et inclusive Considérant l’importance de l’écriture inclusive et neutre pour atteindre une représentation égale de toutes les personnes, Considérant qu’elle…
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A Feast of Flowers Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador By Christopher Krupa University of Pennsylvania Press In A Feast of Flowers, Christopher Krupa focuses on Ecuador’s booming cut-flower sector and…
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CASCA’s Medical Anthropology Network (CMA) has established a Best Paper Award. The Award will be awarded once per year to the Anthropologica research article or multi-modal publication that is assessed by the…
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Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment Edited By Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall, Christine Frison Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group This volume presents a…
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Course Instructor / Personnel chargé de cours: Karl Schmid Dr. Karl Schmid has been a contract instructor at York University, Trent University, and the University of Guelph. He currently holds a LSTA at York University.…
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Congratulations to the CASCA 2023 Fellows: Michael Lambek (University of Toronto Scarborough) and Susan Vincent (St. Francis Xavier University). La CASCA est très fière d’annoncer que Michael Lambek (University of…
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PhD Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellow Celeste Pang shares a new digital collective mural Presents and Futures of Care. The mural was co-created by participants in a 12-week virtual arts-based project that explored themes…
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Chapter: Africa Out of the Shadows: Authoritarian Anti-Imperialism, Transnational Pentecostalism, and Covid-19 “Conspiracy Theories” By Laura Meek In Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective Michael Butter and…
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Chapter: On the existence and persistence of the social category of atan in contemporary Timor-Leste By Susanna Barnes In Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste Edited by Kelly Silva Lisa Palmer and Teresa Cunha…
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Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures By Brenda E.F. Beck University of Toronto Press Understanding an epic story’s key belief patterns can reveal community-level values, the nature of…
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Samar Zora, who was born in Kuwait but moved to Canada when she was five years old, moved back to Kuwait during her sophomore year of high school. At Duke, she was a fourth-year doctoral candidate in cultural…
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La pluralité religieuse au Québec Dirigé par Deirdre Meintel Presses de l’Université de Montréal Fruit d’une recherche de terrain sur plus de 230 groupes religieux ou spirituels au Québec répartis dans plusieurs…
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A new episode of the podcast “Defence Deconstructed” features PhD Candidate Walter Callaghan, and he discusses professional military education and its role in pursuing culture change. Callaghan is in conversation with…
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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! OUTSTANDING GRADUATING ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENT…
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Recipes and Reciprocity. Building Relationships in Research Edited by Hannah Tait Neufeld, Elizabeth Finnis University of Manitoba Press Recipes and Reciprocity considers the ways that food and research intersect for…
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The Salisbury Award, given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, recognizes an exceptional anthropology PhD candidate at a Canadian university. CASCA is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2023 Salisbury…
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Small Bites: Biocultural Dimension of Children’s Food and Nutrition By Tina Moffat UBC Press https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo156867159.html#anchor-table-of-contents Picky eating. Obesity.…
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The Inuit World Edited by Pamela Stern Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group The Inuit World is a robust and holistic reference source to contemporary Inuit life from the intimate world of the household to the global…
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The Right to Be Counted. The Urba Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi By Sanjeev Routray Stanford University Press In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor…
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The Sensory Studies Manifesto: Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences By David Howes UTP Press The senses are made, not given. This revolutionary realization has come as of late to inform…
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Walking Together, Working Together. Engaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-Being. Edited by Leslie Main Johnson and Janelle Marie Baker University of Alberta Press This collection takes a holistic view of well-being,…
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CASCA is delighted to announce that Dr. Colin Scott has been selected as the Weaver-Tremblay Award for 2023. Dr. Scott is a Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, where he earned his PhD in Anthropology in…
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What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make By Michael J. Hathaway Princeton University Press What a Mushroom Lives For pushes today’s mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions. For centuries,…
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Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples By Bruce Granville Miller UBC Press On the twelfth floor of an undistinguished-looking high-rise in a Canadian city, a tribunal adjudicates…
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