December 7, 2022
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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 devoted much of my professional work as an educator to arts-in-healthcare facilitation, “a broad and growing academic discipline and field of practice dedicated to using…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2
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, and communities faced with a far too long history of inequity and exploitation historically characterising Indigenous/non-Indigenous research relations. Given the connection between research data, empowerment,…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 2
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 other institutional actors? What enhances access and what inhibits it? Our summer 2022 team research project engaged anthropological perspectives to gather insights from disabled students…
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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 evolution, on ancient traditions, and to therefore get a clearer picture of how we ended up where we are today. Of course, that’s well and…
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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 limited, and often go to internationally-trained scholars, yet Canadian graduate programs remain focused on training anthropology professors, not anthropologists. Anthropologists bring a unique set of…
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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 anthropological perspectives are especially useful is in the Taiwan Strait, where media attention to defence and security obscure the more human dimensions of international relations.…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
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 David Graeber (2015) reflects on how bureaucracy, through an economy of paperwork, evaluation, and performance reviews, has spread from the corporate sector to the government,…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
Editors’ comment, Spring 2022 issue/ Mot des éditrices, numéro du printemps 2022 By Maggie Cummings, Anglophone Member-at-Large and Olivia Roy-Malo, Membre actif francophone Welcome to the Spring 2022 Issue of Culture, the biannual newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology Society. As we prepare this issue for publication, we are also are also preparing for CASCA upcoming…
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Culture, Vol. 16, No. 1: Open Spaces/Close Encounters; Espaces ouverts/liens étroits
Teaching Across Disciplinary and Experiential Borders Megan Graham, PhD2022 CATE Instructor Recipient As anthropologists, we are accustomed to immersing ourselves in intellectually and experientially rich milieus for our ethnographic research. I am a musician-ethnographer. My research situates me in the textures of voices, sounds, and all that is experiential, and I recognize the importance of…
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Learning about Clandestine Migration through Art and Anthropology By Mélissa Gauthier, University of Victoria, Winner of the 2022 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Faculty) How can the blending of anthropology and art help us think about pressing global issues like migration and create engaged and meaningful learning in the classroom? Collaborations between artists and anthropologists have flourished in…
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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 health crisis persisted, the research became about living in the ongoing COVID19 pandemic and the project design changed significantly. As a result of these changes,…
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@Anthropology4Homosapiens: A Reflection on Doing Public Anthropology through Social Media By Adrianna Wiley, MA, University of Guelph How do we make anthropology relevant in a world where people can represent themselves and where our subject is not often taught in the public-school classroom? It is a question my cohort has been tasked with answering since…
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