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October 21, 2025

Collaborative, Experimental, Creative Anthropology in Canada–the making of a research “lab”

CASCA Presents

Emma Varley’s reflection on CASCA Presents’ third instalment Located at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Fiona P. McDonald’s Collaborative + Experimental Ethnography Lab operates as a space in which ethnographers can pursue collaborative inquiry, whether in-person or virtually, through use of a diverse suite of technologically mediated tools. Key to the lab’s success is…

July 28, 2025

The ANTHROPEN initiative

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CASCA Presents a discussion between Monica Heller (University of Toronto, and CASCA President 2023-2024) and Francine Saillant (Laval University, 2021 Weaver-Tremblay Award recipient) about the latter’s ANTHROPEN initiative (in collaboration with several colleagues). This initiative is a tool aimed at democratizing and opening up the production of knowledge in French-language anthropology. Discover this innovative format…

July 24, 2025

Welcome to CASCA Presents

CASCA Presents

Welcome to the inaugural post of “CASCA Presents”, the newest initiative of the Canadian Anthropology Society! In a curated and multi-modal way, “CASCA Presents” promotes members’ scholarship, advocacy, and activism: CASCA’s membership exemplifies the very best of Canadian anthropology. Our community is richly and diversely populated by scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists, whose work speaks…

April 24, 2025

When Art and Anthropology Collide: The Making and Sharing of Mackenzie Place

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by Lindsay Bell, Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology (University of Toronto) During my fieldwork on the impacts of diamond mining in sub-arctic Canada, I lived in “Mackenzie Place”, a seventeen-story tower that presides over the center of Hay River (Xátł’odehchee) in the Northwest Territories. Known locally as simply “the High Rise”, the building was for decades…

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