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Culture Newsletter: Call for submission of articles

Culture is CASCA’s bi-annual and bilingual electronic newsletter. We are currently accepting articles and discussion pieces, news items, event announcements, and book notes for the Fall 2024 issue. In this…

In Memoriam: David Lumsden

David Paul Lumsden June 9th, 1943 - May 27th, 2020 Please see the following in memory of anthropologist David Lumsden: https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2020/06/14/passings-professor-emeritus-david-lumsden/ and https://www.wardfuneralhomes.com/memorials/david-lumsden/4227453/ In recognition of his long and dedicated service to…

In Memoriam: Jill Le Clair

JILL M. Le CLAIR, PhD February 6, 1947 - October 24, 2020 Jill's family and friends are saddened to announce her sudden death on Saturday, October 24, 2020 in Toronto.…

In Memoriam: J. E. Michael Kew

J. E. Michael Kew (1932-2020) Professor J. E. Michael Kew (Mike to those of us who knew him), was born in Quesnel, BC in 1932, and departed this life on November…

In Memoriam: David Reese Counts (2 May 1934—11 November 2020)

Submitted by Naomi M. McPherson, Assoc Prof Emerita, Anthropology, UBC (Header photo: David Reese Counts, 2002, courtesy of Rebecca Counts) Renowned for his kind and warm smile, it is in…

Call for collaborators: Ecologies of Harm: Mapping Contexts of Vulnerability in the Time of Covid-19

Call for collaborators: Ecologies of Harm: Mapping Contexts of Vulnerability in the Time of Covid-19 Researchers at UBC Anthropology seek collaborators for an open access, mapping project: Ecologies of Harm:…

CASCA – Prix d’excellence des étudiants finissants en anthropologie / Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards

Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and college anthropology departments recognize their top graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students and to…

Symposium at CASCA 2021 – Sexual Harassment in Anthropology: Reflecting on Engagements and Entanglements

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Congratulations – Wendy Wickwire awarded the CSN-RÉC Book Prize

Congratulations - Wendy Wickwire awarded the CSN-RÉC Book Prize Congratulations to Wendy Wickwire whose book At the Bridge: James Teit and An Anthropology of Belonging is the 2020 winner of…

Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet

Deep and Sheltered Waters: The History of Tod Inlet By David R. Gray, 2020, Royal BC Museum https://shop.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/product/deep-and-sheltered-waters/ This new book tells the fascinating story of the people and community…

Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships

Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships Edited by Angela Cameron, Sari Graben, and Val Napoleon, University of Toronto Press, 2020 https://utorontopress.com/ca/creating-indigenous-property-2 While colonial imposition of the Canadian legal order…

The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement

The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement Edited by Janice E. Graham, Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, and Regna Darnell, UBC Press, 2021 https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-social-life-of-standards Through twelve ethnographic case…

President’s welcome

By Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University Welcome to the newest issue of Culture on Resilience/Résilience!  After everything that 2020 has doled out, it is with trepidation that I go to…

Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains

Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American Great Plains Kathleen Bolling Lowrey, University Press of Colorado, 2020 https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3887-shamanism-and-vulnerability-on-the-north-and-south-american-great-plains In Shamanism and Vulnerability on the North and South American…

Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (4th Canadian edition)

Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (4th Canadian edition) By Richard H. Robbins, Rachel Dowty, Maggie Cummings, and Karen McGarry, Cengage, 2021 https://www.cengage.ca/c/sociocultural-anthropology-a-problem-based-approach-44-4th-edition-4e-robbins-dowty-cummings-mcgarry/9780176870997/ Taking a unique, problem-based approach, the fourth Canadian…

Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya

Morality at the Margins: Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya Sarah Hillewaert, Fordham University Press, 2019 https://fordham.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.5422/fordham/9780823286515.001.0001/upso-9780823286515-miscMatter-100 This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya’s island…

Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape

Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape By Alex C. Oehler, Berghahn Books, 2020 https://berghahnbooks.com/title/OehlerBeyond Responding to recent scholarship, this book examines animal domestication and offers a…

Centering the Margins of Anthropology’s History: Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14

Centering the Margins of Anthropology's History: Histories of Anthropology Annual, Volume 14 Edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach, University of Nebraska Press, 2021 https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496225535/ About the Book The…

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise: Affect, Tourism, Belize

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible ParadiseAffect, Tourism, Belize Kenneth Little, Berghahn Books, 2020 https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LittleOn There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise…

The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China

The Future Conditional: Building an English-Speaking Society in Northeast China By Eric S. Henry, Cornell University Press, 2021 cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501754906/the-future-conditional In The Future Conditional, Eric S. Henry brings twelve years of expertise…

Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS

Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS By Pamela J. Downe, University of Toronto Press, 2021 https://utorontopress.com/ca/collective-care-2 Collective Care provides an ethnographic account of urban Indigenous life and caregiving practices…

CASCA members stand out/Des membres de la CASCA se distinguent

Dr. Janice Graham, Dalhousie University, published "Principles and Practices for Vaccine Trust", The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2021 Dr. Shayne A. P. Dahl, McMaster University, won a postdoctoral fellowship at…

La récipiendaire de la Bourse Salisbury Award Winner 2021

(La version française suit) 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…

Emergent Axioms of Violence (Special Issue of Anthropological Forum)

Emergent Axioms of Violence (Special Issue of Anthropological Forum; Volume 31, Issue 3, 2021) Guest Edited By Antonio Sorge and Stavroula Pipyrou https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/canf20/31/3?nav=tocList& This collection explores how violent rhetorics, metaphors,…

Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality

Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality Edited by Holly Zwalf, Michelle Walks, and Joani Mortensen, 2020, Demeter Press https://demeterpress.org/books/mothers-sex-and-sexuality/ Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality talks about things not normally dared spoken out loud—the interconnectedness…

Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation

Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation By Hannah Turner, 2020, UBC Press https://www.ubcpress.ca/cataloguing-culture How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the…

Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Policy Gain or Confidence Game

Transparency, Power, and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Policy Gain or Confidence Game Edited by Katherine Fierlbeck, Janice Graham, and Matthew Herder, 2021, University of Toronto Press https://utpdistribution.com/9781487529048/transparency-power-and-influence-in-the-pharmaceutical-industry/ Transparency, Power,…

Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame

Living with HIV in Post-Crisis Times: Beyond the Endgame Edited by David A.B. Murray, 2021, Lexington Books https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666901481/Living-with-HIV-in-Post-Crisis-Times-Beyond-the-Endgame Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in…

Concepts and Persons

Concepts and Persons By Michael Lambek, 2021, University of Toronto Press https://utorontopress.com/9781487509057/concepts-and-persons/ The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders…

In Memoriam: Stanley Barrett (1938-2021)

In Memoriam: Stanley Barrett (1938-2021) By Andrew Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo, and Harriet Lyons, University of Waterloo STANLEY BARRETT (1938-2021) taught for many years at the…

In Memoriam: Serge Bouchard (1947-2021)

By Marie-Christine Lévesque - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17025093 In Memoriam: Serge Bouchard (1947-2021) Please see the following in tributes in memory of anthropologist Serge Bouchard: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1792183/anthropologue-serge-bouchard-mort and https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/05/12/wave-of-love-emerges-after-death-of-quebec-writer-and-radio-personality-serge-bouchard.html

In Memoriam: Hugo de Burgos (1963-2021)

In Memoriam: Hugo de Burgos (1963-2021) Please see the following tribute to anthropologist Hugo de Burgos: https://fass.ok.ubc.ca/2021/09/29/ubco-mourns-the-passing-of-associate-professor-hugo-de-burgos/

In Memoriam – Claude Bariteau (1943-2021)

Image tirée de la Série « Les possédés et leurs mondes », Claude Bariteau, livre 4, 24 septembre 2015. Réalisation, Frédéric Laugrand; caméra, Emmanuel Luce. Par Natacha Gagné, professeure au Département d’anthropologie…

Disability and COVID-19 (Special Issue of Disability Studies)

Disability and COVID-19 (Special Issue of Disability Studies, Vol 41, No 3, 2021) Edited by Pamela Block, Éverton Luis Pereira, Anahí Guedes de Mello, and Dikaios Sakellariou https://dsq-sds.org/issue/view/258 This carefully…

Digital Selves: Embodiment and Subjectivity in New Media Cultures in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Special Issue of Digital Icons)

Digital Selves: Embodiment and Subjectivity in New Media Cultures in Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Special Issue of Digital Icons; Issue 21, 2021) Edited by Cassandra Hartblay and Tatiana Klepikova https://www.digitalicons.org/issue21…

Editors comment, Spring 2021 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2021

By/par Maggie Cummings, Anglophone Member-at-Large & Marie Michèle Grenon, Membre actif Francophone (La version française suit) Welcome to the Spring 2021 Issue of Culture, the newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology…

La CASCA est ravie de dévoiler les tout premiers récipiendaires du Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la CASCA (2021)/CASCA is delighted to announce the inaugural recipients of the CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (2021)

(English follows) La CASCA est ravie de dévoiler les tout premiers récipiendaires du Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la CASCA (PEEC 2021). Toutes nos félicitations! PEEC – Personnel chargé de…

Daniel Tubb on the fieldwork for his new ethnography Shifting Livelihoods

By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia, University of Washington Press, 2020 Shifting Livelihoods emerged from the eighteen months I…

Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed/Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land

Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed/Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land A 22-Year Journey from Interviewing to Publication By Leslie McCartney,…

Salisbury Report: Challenging Japan’s Low Birthrate: How Japanese Nonprofit Organizations Focused on Fathering Are Affecting Men’s Performances of Masculinity

By Evan Koike, University of British Columbia (Winner of the 2016 Salisbury Award) In twenty-first-century Japan, mounting demographic pressures, the needs of heterosexual, married parents of young children, and nonprofit…

Salisbury Report: Tracing Regimes of Value in the Mackenzie Basin

By Abra Wenzel, Carleton University (Winner of the 2019 Salisbury Award) My interest in Indigenous women textile artists in the Great Slave Lake region of the Northwest Territories (NWT) began…

Innovating Anthropological Pedagogy: Insights for the present and future

By Louise de la Gorgendière, Carleton University, Winner of the 2021 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Faculty) In what ways do we, as ‘anthropology teachers’, provide opportunities for our students…

Remote Teaching and the Revival of Time-tested Styles and Tools

By Amirpouyan Shiva, University of British Columbia, Winner of the 2021 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Instructor) Interactive teaching has been all the rage for some time now. One of…

The Disentanglement Project

By Rhiannon Mosher, Ontario Public Service Anthropologists excel at taking into account the multiple perspectives of differently situated social actors and examining how broad social processes affect people’s everyday lives.…

CASCA 2021 Annual Meeting at University of Guelph/Le colloque de la CASCA 2021 à l’Université de Guelph

(La version française suit) CASCA 2021 Annual Meeting at University of Guelph CASCA 2021 will be a virtual event held between May 12-15 and hosted by the University of Guelph,…

“Tips for Students” now on Instagram

Are you an anthropology student looking for advice? Check out "Tips for Students", a new University of Toronto Department of Anthropology Instagram campaign. https://www.instagram.com/uoftanthro/

2021 CASCA Conference at the University of Guelph

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph is pleased to announce the launch of the CASCA 2021 conference website. The conference will be held in a…

CASCA’s 2019 Student Poster Prizes / Prix d’affiches étudiantes 2019 de la CASCA

We are pleased to announce the winners of CASCA’s 2019 Student Poster Prizes. Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer les gagnants des Prix d'affiches étudiantes 2019 de la CASCA : People’s Choice…

Doing/Undoing/Redoing Carnival in New Orleans in the Time of COVID-19

By Martha Radice, Dalhousie University and Visiting Scholar, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University I left my field site in New Orleans very quickly. On Mardi Gras…

Teaching Remotely with COVID-19

By Marley Duckett, University of Saskatchewan Two days before I was scheduled to teach a graduate class on campus, I received a message from my colleague and the primary teacher…

Keeping in Touch and Sharing Resources: The Network for Critical Pedagogy in Canadian Anthropology Facebook Group

By Maggie Cummings, University of Toronto Scarborough In mid-March, like instructors of face-to-face classes across Canada, I found myself making the abrupt and rather ad hoc transition to online teaching. …

Mutating Consciousness in the Time of Pandemic

By James Depew, Algoma University & David Burty, Western University For capitalism to work at full speed it needs bodies entering into interaction with clock-like regularity. Now that the virus…

Surviving the Apocalypse, Again

By Mirjana Uzelac, University of Alberta I was ten years old when I faced my first apocalypse. It was 1991, and the war had started in Yugoslavia. It seemed like…

Undoing Fieldwork in a Time of Epidemic

By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa and Visiting Scholar, University of Guam On January 21, I flew from Taipei to Guåhan (Guam) to begin field research with the CHamoru, the…

COVID-19: Calling All Outbreak Ethnographers!

By Pamela J. Downe, University of Saskatchewan COVID-19 is sweeping headlines. Incidence rates, death counts, risk factors, and public health responses are updated with unprecedented frequency. Most anthropologists in Canada…

Editors comment, Spring 2020 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2020

By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large & Marie Michèle Grenon, Membre actif Francophone (La version française suit) We live in gripping and uncertain times. People around the world have been through…

Corn-Wolf in Pandemia

By Nicolas Rasiulis, McGill University Spring Equinox, 2020, two days before my previously anticipated departure for Mongolia to conduct the majority of my PhD fieldwork. I recently vacated my apartment-become-home…

Disrupted Lives and Uncertainties in the Time of Pandemic

By Bicram Rijal, Simon Fraser University We are living in extremely uncertain times. With the global takeover by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have become humans that we are not used…

Coronavirus Horror: A Reflection on Abjection and Embodied Weapons

By Maria Ibari Ortega, Australian National University Amid global panic and local fears of contagion, acts of violence and aggression have multiplied at the time of accelerated transmission of the…

Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee Award 2019 Prize Announcement / Annonce du Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee 2019

The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque, Emeritus Professor at the Université Laval Department of Anthropology, where she…

2020 CASCA Weaver-Tremblay Award Winner: Dr. Bruce Granville Miller / Le gagnant du prix CASCA Weaver-Tremblay 2020: Bruce Granville Miller

(La version française suit) It is my privilege to announce that we will be presenting Bruce Granville Miller, Doctor of Anthropology and Professor at the University of British Columbia, with the…

Call for CASCA – Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards / Appel pour le Prix d’excellence des étudiants finissants en anthropologie

(La version française suit) Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and college anthropology departments recognize their top graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s, and…

Appel de dossier/ Call for Submission: Prix étudiant du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA pour une communication en anthropologie féministe / CASCA Women’s Network Award for Student Paper in Feminist Anthropology

(English follows) Prix étudiant du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA pour une communication en anthropologie féministe Les étudiants des 2e et 3e cycles en anthropologie qui ont présenté une…

Student Research Feature

Undergraduate student research from the University of Saskatchewan On March 7, 2020, eight undergraduate and four graduate students presented at the Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Linguistics and Archaeology (APALA) conference at…

Making the Familiar Strange: Studying Bison Reintroductions in the Land of Living Skies

By Clint Westman, University of Saskatchewan In autumn 2019, I began doing fieldwork in a different province, on a new topic. After 10 years living in Saskatchewan, I wanted to…

Archaeologies of the Heart

Archaeologies of the Heart Edited by Kisha Supernant, Jane Eva Baxter, Natasha Lyons & Sonya Atalay, Springer, 2020 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030363499 Archaeological practice is currently shifting in response to feminist, indigenous, activist,…

Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil

Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan; adapted by William Flynn; illustrated by Débora Santos, University of Toronto Press, 2020 https://utorontopress.com/ca/gringo-love-4 In the city of Natal in northeastern…

Prix Weaver-Tremblay Award 2021: Call for Nominations/Appel de candidatures

English follows Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2021 En 1992, la Société d'anthropologie appliquée au Canada créait le prix Weaver-Tremblay. Marc-Adélard Tremblay et Sally Weaver, deux anthropologues parmi les plus respectés au Canada,…

Announcing CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) / Nouveaux Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la CASCA (PEEC)

La version française suit CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) The CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) have been established to recognize the contributions to excellence in teaching and student…

2020 CASCA Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards / Prix d’Excellence des Étudiants Finissants en Anthropologie 2020 de la CASCA

Bachelor’s Award Recipient/Premier cycle Robert Hanks, MacEwan UniversityLaurence Alain, Université LavalJessica Jack, University of SaskatchewanMiguel Priolo Marin, University of AlbertaMorgan Herbert, Dalhousie UniversityKarlie Tessmer, Simon Fraser UniversityJoanne Scofield, University of…

Announcement of the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize 2020 / Annonce du Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee 2020

La version française suit Labrecque-Lee Book Prize 2020 The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque, Emeritus Professor at…

Experimentation as Resilience

By Alex Oehler, University of Regina Is resilience merely a kind of toughness, mixed with “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties?”[i] In an article written for the general public,…

CASCA’s Sexual Harassment Survey Report and Working Group Invitation

CASCA’s Sexual Harassment Survey Report and Working Group Invitation The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) ran an online survey with our members on the experience of sexual harassment in professional settings…

Le rapport du Sondage de la CASCA sur le harcèlement sexuel et une invitation à participer au groupe de travail

Le rapport du Sondage de la CASCA sur le harcèlement sexuel et une invitation à participer au groupe de travail La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) a réalisé un sondage en…

Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales

Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have received funding from…

Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements

Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements Edited by Vered Amit and Noel B. SalazarEpilogue by Karen Fog Olwig, Berghahn Books, 2020 https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/AmitPacing Turning the attention to…

An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize.

An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize. James B. Waldram, University of New Mexico Press, 2020 https://unmpress.com/books/imperative-cure/9780826361738 James B. Waldram's groundbreaking study, An Imperative…

Mental Health Resource List (CPSA)/Ressources en santé mentale (ACSP)

Mental Health Resource List - courtesy of the CPSA https://csn-rec.ca/news/39229-mental-health-reource-list-courtesy-of-the-cpsa Liste - Ressources en santé mentale (ACSP) https://csn-rec.ca/fr/nouvelles/39230-liste-ressources-en-sante-mentale-acsp

Launch of Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies

Matrix: A Journal for Matricultural Studies (Matrix) is an open-access, peer-reviewed and refereed scholarly journal published by the International Network for Training, Education, and Research on Culture (Network on Culture),…

CASCA members on Wikipedia

Some CASCA members are listed on the Canadian anthropologists category on Wikipedia.

CASCA-CUBA 2018 – L’anthropologie repensée : le rapport de la pratique non académique à la discipline, ou être anthropologue sans le titre

L'Association des anthropologues du Québec (AANTHQ) vous invite à visionner la table ronde CASCA-CUBA 2018 C’est, il y a 2 ans déjà, qu’avait lieu la CASCA-CUBA à la Universidad de…

Marianne Ignace at the Royal Society of Canada • Class of 2020

Marianne Ignace (Departments of Linguistics & Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University, and CASCA member) has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of the…

CASCA Members in the News / Des membres de la CASCA dans les médias

"USask professor says it’s normal to feel ‘fatigued’ amid coronavirus pandemic" (Global News, August 5th, 2020, Dr. Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan) "Inondations annuelles : les riverains font-ils partie de la…

Colloque annuel de la CASCA 2021 à l’Université de Guelph

Le département de sociologie et d’anthropologie de l’Université de Guelph est heureux d’annoncer le lancement du site web de la conférence de la CASCA 2021. La conférence aura lieu en…

“Nowhere and Everywhere” in Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

"Nowhere and Everywhere" in Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy, David Henig, Anna Strhan and Joel Robbins, eds Michael Lambek Berghahn, 2022…

In Memoriam – J. Teresa Holmes

Jane (J.) Teresa Holmes, an associate professor in the Anthropology Department in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, died Nov. 18, at the age of 68. J. Teresa…

NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie – félicitations!

To celebrate our fantastic CASCA community Anthropology students and supervisors we are starting a new ‘Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!’ section in the Culture Newsletter. Please send your information…

Our members in the news / Nos membres dans les médias

PhD Candidate Stephanie Mayell  (department of anthropology at University of Toronto) commented for Radio-Canada on the mental health session for migrant workers proposed by the Consul of Mexico in Leamington, Ontario.La candidate au…

CASCA members stand out/Des membres de la CASCA se distinguent

B. Lynne Milgram of OCAD is the overall winner of the 2022 SAFN Anthropology Day Photo Contest. Ruby Peter and Helene Demers won a Nautilus Book Award (memoir category) for…

Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards/ Prix d’excellence des étudiants finissants en anthropologie

This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and college anthropology departments recognize their top graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD students and to promote awareness of CASCA. Each…

“Taiwan’s Birthday?”: an Anthropological View of Diplomatic Events in Ottawa

By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa Anthropological attention to semiotics and ritual provides valuable insights into the meanings of the human relations that hide behind the media headlines. One area where…

A New Graduate Program in Practicing Anthropology at USASK:  Training Engaged Anthropologists for the Future!

By James B. Waldram, University of Saskatchewan The anthropological world is changing quickly, and practicing anthropology is now a rapidly-growing field. Full-time academic positions for anthropologists at Canadian universities are…

Une méthodologie intersubjective et phénoménologique : Proposition d’un empirisme radical

Image du bandeau: cérémonie de cacao sacré réalisée à Montréal le 11 juin 2022, Clara Gargon 2022.

Future Reflections: Archaeology, Identity, and Contemporary Gender Politics

By Emma Palladino, Université de Montréal What is archaeology “for”?  An easy first answer: to reconstruct and thus better understand the lifeways of our ancestors. To shed light on human…

Engaging Anthropology to Understand the Experiences of Disabled University Students

By Kim Clark, Kate Mahoney, Sam Schneider, Anika Sebudde and Andrew Walsh (Department of Anthropology, Western University) What is the impact on disabled university students of the everyday practices of instructors and…

Webinaire avec l’Acfas – Publier en anglais ou périr / Webinar with Acfas – Publish in English or perish

Le 15 novembre 2022, la Fédération des sciences humaines et l'Acfas ont co-organisé un webinaire gratuit intitulé « Publier en anglais ou périr : défis et perspectives pour la recherche…

“Afterword” in The Dynamic Cosmos: Movement, Paradox, and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession

"Afterword" in The Dynamic Cosmos: Movement, Paradox, and Experimentation in the Anthropology of Spirit Possession, Diana Espírito Santo and Matan Shapiro, eds Michael Lambek Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-dynamic-cosmos-movement-paradox-and-experimentation-in-the-anthropology-of-spirit-possession/ Michael Lambek…

Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family

Behind the Glass: The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family By Michael Lambek https://utorontopress.com/9781487542191/behind-the-glass/ The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and…

“The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital” in The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures

"The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani Hospital" in The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures Emma Varley Rutgers University Press, 2022 https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-work-of-hospitals/9781978823037…

New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being

New Spiritualities and the Cultures of Well-being Géraldine Mossière, editor Springer, 2022 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-06263-6 Inspired by the neoliberal paradigm that transposes religious behaviors into a religious marketplace framed by consumerist and…

“Making God’s Country: A Phenomenological Approach to Christianity among the Sediq-Truku of Taiwan” in Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous People

"Making God’s Country: A Phenomenological Approach to Christianity among the Sediq-Truku of Taiwan" in Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous People, edited by Chia-yuan Huang, Daniel Davies, Dafydd Fell Scott Simon Routledge, 2022…

Mixed Families in a Transnational World

Mixed Families in a Transnational World Edited by Josiane Le Gall, Catherine Therrien, and Karine Geoffrion https://www.routledge.com/Mixed-Families-in-a-Transnational-World/Gall-Therrien-Geoffrion/p/book/9780367647865 Offering a transnational perspective on the processes of identity transmission and identity construction of mixed families…

The Living Inca Town: Tourist Encounters in the Peruvian Andes

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The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

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The History of Anthropology: A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America

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History of Theory and Method in Anthropology

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Beyond Rights: The Nisg̱a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships

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“Doing” Anthropology Differently: Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Research Data Management and Anthropology

By Naomi Adelson, PhD, Professor and Associate Vice President, Research & Innovation - Toronto Metropolitan University The management of research data is a particularly pressing issue for Indigenous leaders, scholars,…

Art and Anthropology

By Kathleen Downie, MA Social Anthropology How do we engage anthropology as a discipline, and how does anthropology help us engage the surrounding world? For over twenty years I have…

Recipes and Reciprocity: Building Relationships in Research

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Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples

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The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi

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In Memorium – Samar Zora

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,…

Our Members in the Media / Suivez nos membres dans les médias

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…

CASCA members stand out / Les membres de la CASCA se distinguent

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…

CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence / Prix d’excellence en enseignement

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…

Salisbury Award Winner / Récipiendaire du prix Salisbury

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 Award is Alice Miot-Bruneau from…

Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Award 2023 / Prix d’excellence des étudiant·e·s finissants en anthropologie 2023

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 AWARD 2023 Bachelor's Awards Grayson Thate, Athabasca…

The Sensory Studies Manifesto: Tracking the Sensorial Revolution in the Arts and Human Sciences

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Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment

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A Feast of Flowers: Race, Labor, and Postcolonial Capitalism in Ecuador

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Annonce du thème de AAACASCA2023 theme announcement  

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President’s Welcome

Par Emma Varley, Brandon University Welcome to the Fall Issue of Culture on "Engaged/Engaging Anthropology"! And, as CASCA’s President for 2022-2023, my warmest greetings to all members! My term as…

Chapter: Africa Out of the Shadows: Authoritarian Anti-Imperialism, Transnational Pentecostalism, and Covid-19 “Conspiracy Theories” In Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

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What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make

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Walking Together, Working Together: Engaging Wisdom for Indigenous Well-Being

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The Inuit World

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Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures

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Small Bites: Biocultural Dimension of Children’s Food and Nutrition

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Best Paper Award by Medical Anthropology Network / Prix du meilleur article du Réseau de l’anthropologie médicale

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…

“Of Boars and Men: Indigenous Knowledge and Co-Management in Taiwan” in Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond

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Ressources en santé mentale / Mental Health Resources

Ressources en santé mentale / Mental Health Resources Please check out this helpful list of mental health resources for members of various university communities in Canada, generously shared with CASCA…

Write in public, or on publishing before you’re ready

By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Prolific British Marxist Eric Hobsbawm was a consummate repackager of his own ideas, according to Historians Emile Chabal and Anne Perez (2021). They…

(A)wake in the World Wide Web: A reflection and imagistic evocation

By Nicolas Rasiulis (McGill University) It was the night of April 4, 2021. Or was it early on April 5? One thing is certain: my attention was drawn to Mongolia,…

Unfolding Crisis and Adaptive Methods: Social Media and Collaborative Narrative during COVID19 Research

By Alexis Black, PhD In June 2020, I was awarded a Post-Doctoral Research Grant by the Fyssen Foundation to examine “post-pandemic” comprehensions and imaginations in Paris, France. However, as the…

President’s Welcome

By Éric Gagnon Poulin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill What a year full of challenges, unforeseen events and uncertainties in virtually every sphere of social life! The pandemic…

Mot de bienvenue de la présidente

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Univesrity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Quelle année remplie de défis, d’imprévus et d’incertitudes dans à peu près toutes les sphères de la vie sociale ! La…

Sonorous Worlds: Musical Enchantment in Venezuela

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Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815-1870

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Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics

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@Anthropology4Homosapiens: A Reflection on Doing Public Anthropology through Social Media

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Exploring Social Entrepreneurship Across Geographical Spaces: A Conversation with Dr. Walter Little & Dr. Lynne Milgram

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Walter Callaghan talk at a symposium hosted by the Centre of Excellence on PTSD

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Congratulations! Kamari Maxine Clarke awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship

Congratulation to Kamari Clarke is the recent winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship and has been featured in the University of Toronto Arts & Science News highlighting her work toward new…

Congratulations! Scott Simon nominated for the CIPS second annual blog award

The Centre of International Policy Studies (University of Ottawa) launched their second "Best Blow Award" competition. The article of Scott Simon, Lest We Forget: How the 1930 Musha Incident Reveals…

Congratulations! Leslie McCartney and Gwich’in Tribal Council received the Oral History Association Book Award

Congratulations to Leslie McCartney and Gwich'in Tribal Council whose book Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlihis is the 2021 winner of…

Hearing Palestine – A new initiative by Alejandro Paz and Jens Hanssen in collaboration with the Institute for Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto

“Hearing Palestine” is a new initiative at the University of Toronto (UofT) that provides a safe space for Palestinians and those interested in the history and future of Palestine to share their experience and research.…

NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie – félicitations!

Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie - félicitations! Congratulations to Marley Duckett on the successful defence of her Master’s thesis, “Energy Consultations on Treaty 8 Lands: The…

2021 CASCA Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards / Prix d’excellence des étudiant(e)s finissants en anthropologie 2021 de la CASCA

Bachelor's Awards - Récipiendaires du premier cycle Aidan Wallace, St. Francis Xavier UniversityLauren Chang, University of GuelphCaitlin Craig, University of VictoriaAnastasiya Staskevich, Simon Fraser UniversitySelina Heidinger, University of ManitobaLogan Robertson,…

Culture Calls/Appels pour Culture

La version française suit Culture is CASCA’s bi-annual and bilingual electronic newsletter. Our next call for submissions of articles and discussion pieces, news items, event announcements, and book notes will…

2021 CASCA Conference at the University of Regina (May 11-15 2022)

Open Spaces/Close Encounters Espaces ouverts/liens étroits https://casca2022.ca/ May 11-15, 2022 | Regina, Saskatchewan “Open Spaces – Close Encounters” Call for papers “Open Spaces” invites us to reflect on new possibilities…

Colloque annuel de la CASCA 2021 à l’Université de Regina (mai 11-15 2022)

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“More Than Human Anthropology” YouTube Channel (by Alex Oehler)

"More Than Human Anthropology" YouTube Channel Check out this new YouTube channel by Alex Oehler (University of Regina): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-wFFUk2HgmJ4qFtl78RlYg/videos Alex Oehler is an environmental anthropologist with interests in animal-human relations,…

Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader

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Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations

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La récipiendaire de la Bourse Salisbury/Salisbury Award Winner 2022

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 Labrecque-Lee Book Prize winners / Les gagnant.e.s du prix du livre Labrecque-Lee

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CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence/Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la CASCA (PEEC)

CASCA is delighted to announce the 2022 recipients of the CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence. Congratulations! Dr. Megan Graham, CATE Instructor Winner, 2022 Dr. Mélissa Gauthier, CATE Faculty Winner, 2022…

Dr. Jasmin Habib, récipiendaire du Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2022/ Weaver-Tremblay Award Winner 2022, Dre Jasmin Habib récipiendaire du Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2022

It is our privilege to announce that we will be presenting Dr. Jasim Habib from the University of Waterloo with the Weaver-Tremblay Award during the CASCA 2022 annual meeting at…

The Utopia of Peer Evaluations of Teaching – A Cautionary Tale

Mary-Lee Mulholland (Mount Royal University) The Utopia of Peer Evaluations of Teaching – A Cautionary Tale In The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy…

Teaching Across Disciplinary and Experiential Borders

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Learning about Clandestine Migration through Art and Anthropology

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Editors comment, Spring 2022 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2022

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What Was Said to Me: The Life of a Sti’tum’atul’wut, a Cowichan Woman

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Congratulations to Brian Thom on Provost’s Award in Engaged Scholarship / Félicitations à Brian Thom pour le prix Provost

Congratulations to Brian Thom, CASCA member and associate Professor at the dep. of anthropology of University of Victoria, on Provost's Award in Engaged Scholarship. The Provost’s Award in Engaged Scholarship (PAES)…

Professor Emerita Monica Heller received an honourary doctorate from the Autonomous University of Barcelona / La professeure émérite Monica Heller a reçu un doctorat honoris causa de l’Université autonome de Barcelone

The UAB has awarded Monica Heller, professor emerita at the University of Toronto, an honourary doctorate at the suggestion of the Faculty of Philosophy of Arts considering "she is one…

Congratulations to William Campbell for the 2021 Gordon and Gary Shepherd Graduate Student Paper Award / Félicitations à William Campbell pour le prix de la meilleure publication étudiante Gordon et Gary Shepherd

Congratulations to our member William Campbell (PhD candidate at the University of Victoria) on receiving the 2021 Gordon and Gary Shepherd Graduate Student Paper Award on on his paper titled "There…

The Right to Be Rural

The Right to Be Rural Edited by Karen R. Foster and Jennifer Jarman, 2022, University of Alberta Press https://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/1019-9781772125832-right-to-be-rural In this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe,…

In Memoriam: Carole Marie Farber (1944-2022)

In Memoriam: Carole Marie Farber (1944-2022) Carole Marie Farber was born in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, USA and died in London, Ontario, Canada. She was preceded in death by her parents,…

Culture Calls/Appels pour Culture

La version française suit Culture is CASCA’s bi-annual and bilingual electronic newsletter. Our next call for submissions of articles and discussion pieces, news items, event announcements, and book notes will…

Call for papers: Crises We Live By

Call for Papers Crises We Live By: a Metaphorical Approach to the Crisis Transdisciplinary Conference at the University of Potsdam, Germany 30-31 March 2023 Confirmed Speakers: Prof. Maurizio Bettini (Università…

Call for Submissions: The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize / Appel de dossier: Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee

la version française suit The Canadian Anthropology Society is seeking submissions for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize. Established in 2018, the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize recognizes outstanding anthropological publications in either French…

Our members are in the news/ Suivez nos membres dans les médias

Walter Callaghan, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, talks about what motivates people to be foreign fighters in armed conflicts : Ashley Stewart, 31 mars 2022 "Untrained foreign…

NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie – félicitations!

NEW FEATURE: Congratulations on your successful thesis defence!/Soutenance de thèse réussie - félicitations! Félicitations à Marie-Michèle Grenon qui a brillamment soutenu sa thèse de doctorat aujourd'hui ! Sa thèse a…

New Instagram campaign “Tips for Students” UofT Department of Anthropology / Nouvelle campagne Instagram “Astuces pour les étudiant.e.s” du département d’anthropologie de l’U.Toronto

The UofT Department of Anthropology has launched an Instagram campaign to inform students about different aspects of student life: tips, event, careers. An interesting tool for all anthropology students! Just…

Digitized journal CULTURE (1981- 1997)- Numérisation du bulletin CULTURE (1981-1997)

The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) announces complete and free Open Access to its newly digitized journal CULTURE. This bilingual publication ran from 1981 to 1997, before merging with our current Open Access flagship journal Anthropologica. It represents an…

“On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation” in Spirit Possession Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon

"On Spirit Possession and Some Parallels with Reincarnation" in Spirit Possession Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Worldwide Phenomenon, Éva Pócs and András Zempléni, eds Michael Lambek Central European University Press, 2022…

10 life lessons from Homa Hoodfar / 10 leçons de vie de Homa Hoodfar

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 Boucher and Martha…

Canada 150 Research Chairs and the Devaluation of Canadian Talent

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…

Seven reasons to go to the CASCA annual meeting in Santiago de Cuba

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…

Current Mapuche Struggles Over Land and State Violence in Argentina’s Patagonia

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 ally supporting Mapuche…

Everything New is Old Again: On the Curiously Retrograde World of Big Data

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…

President’s Welcome / Mot de bienvenue de la Présidente

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…

Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, First Canadian Edition

Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, First Canadian Edition by Gary Ferraro, Susan Andreatta and Chris Holdsworth Nelson, 2018 Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, First Canadian Edition, goes beyond providing a…

Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management

Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management launched in November 2017 as an online periodical reporting on news, research and stories…

The Everyday Black Social Economy of Afro-Descendents in the Chocó, Colombia

The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets Chapter 6 - The Everyday Black Social Economy of Afro-Descendents in the Chocó, Colombia By Daniel Tubb Palgrave 2018 This…

A House of One’s Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador

A House of One's Own: The Moral Economy of Post-Disaster Aid in El Salvador Alicia Swilinski McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018 What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What…

Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique

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…

The Senses of the Interactional Self in the Uses of Pershing Square, Los Angeles

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…

CASCA Women’s Network Update

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,…

Dane-zaa Creation Story: A Dreamer’s Performance Transformed

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…

Homa Hoodfar – Awarded CASCA Women’s Network Lifetime Achievement Award

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…

Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland

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,…

Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation

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…

Urban Encounters: Art and the Public

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…

Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies

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 les sociétés…

Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry

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,…

Contingent Legal Futures: Does the Ability to Exercise Aboriginal Rights and Title Turn on the Price of Gold?

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…

Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

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, 2017. Perspectives is an…

Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda

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 with…

Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon

Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon By Sarah Shulist University of Toronto Press, 2018 Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in…

Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice

Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice Edited by Sonja Luehrmann Indiana University Press, 2017 How do people experience spirituality through what they see, hear, touch, and smell?…

Telecommunication Infrastructure, Public Space and CASCA Conference in Cuba

By Mingyuan Zhang, University of Western Ontario “Just go outside and look for the zombies, then you will find Wi-fi,” a girl volunteering for the CASCA conference from Universidad de…

“Buenos dias. No hablo español.” Auditory Experiences of Cuban culture

By Kanika Varma, University of Victoria As part of the University of Victoria’s Cuba Ethnographic Field School: Contrapunteo, I had the opportunity to attend the CASCA conference 2018 as a…

To Educate is a Labour of Love: Anthropology in the classroom. A Glance at the work of Dr. Alina Garcia

By Jessica Bridges, Oklahoma State University, Jacob Derksen, University of Victoria, Jemma Kosalko, University of Victoria, Cuba Ethnographic Field School 2018 While attending the CASCA-Cuba conference in Santiago, Cuba, we had…

Learning Cuban history without speaking Spanish

By Kanika Varma, University of Victoria As part of the University of Victoria’s Cuba Ethnographic Field School: Contrapunteo, I had the opportunity to attend the CASCA conference 2018 and live in…

The Prisoner’s Dilemma

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