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Nouveau Balado Anthr'potes Qu’est-ce que l’anthropologie? Cette question dont la réponse n’est pas évidente pour plusieurs sert de point de…

Rédacteurs invités: Christine Schreyer et John Wagner, UBC Okanagan. Aide à la traduction fournie par : Francis Langevin, UBC Okanagan.…

Par Bernard Perley, président de la CASCA Kwey Psiw te wen.  Tan kakw?  Liwiso Bernard Perley.  Wolastokwi naka wabanakiw nil.…

By Sayema Khatun, Independent Anthropologist The very drive to explore and understand other "cultures" is quintessentially Western. - A comment…

This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and college anthropology departments recognize their top graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s,…

By Gallous Atabongwoung, PhD, University of Pretoria Anthropology in Canada urges us to avoid ethnocentrism and proactively engage on important…

Congratulations to Alexis Black, from the Centre for Curriculum Redesign, for her article published in the journal Anthropologica 65(1) :…

Congratulations to Kamari Maxine Clarke on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). This recognition is…

By Bernard Perley, President of CASCA Kwey Psiw te wen.  Tan kakw?  Liwiso Bernard Perley.  Wolastokwi naka wabanakiw nil.  Greetings…

Pierre Petit et Jean Michaud University of Hawaii Press, 2024, 320 pages In the connected highlands of southwest China, Vietnam,…

Guest Editors: Christine Schreyer and John Wagner, UBC Okanagan. Translation assistance provided by: Francis Langevin, UBC Okanagan. The CASCA conference…

la version française suit The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee is delighted to announce the 2024 winner of the award is…

Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, passed away peacefully from cancer of the esophagus on…

La version française suit This fall issue of Culture, CASCA's semi-annual newsletter, marks the end of our association's 50th anniversary…

By Monica Heller, présidente de la CASCA Je vous écris entre deux colloques – this is an exceptional year for…

la version française suit Welcome to the spring issue of Culture, CASCA's biannual newsletter! As usual, the theme of this…

The 2024 CASCA meetings will feature a drag performance and academic panel—both featuring Vancouver-based performer Shay Dior—to be held in…

By Martelline Razafindravola Be (l’Université d’Antsiranana) and Andrew Walsh (Western University) We’ve been working together – in Madagascar, in Canada,…

Par Martelline Razafindravola Be (Université d'Antsiranana) et Andrew Walsh (Western University) Nous travaillons ensemble - à Madagascar, au Canada et…

Co-edited by Jennifer Selby and Paul Bramadat Introduction to Ellen Badone's Festschrift: She Listened, We Listened By Paul Bramadat, CSRS,…

Please find the preliminary report here: EN: https://cas-sca.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PRECARITY-SURVEY-PRELIMINARY-REPORT-2.pdf Le rapport préliminaire est disponible ici : FR: https://cas-sca.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PRECARITY-SURVEY-PRELIMINARY-REPORTreformatted_FR.docx

C'est avec regret que nous avons appris le décès d’Yvan Simonis, professeur titulaire retraité de la Faculté de sciences sociales…

It is our privilege to announce that we will be presenting Dr. Carole Lévesque from INRS with the Weaver-Tremblay Award…

la version française suit The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize Committee is delighted to announce the winner of the award is Michael…

la version française suit The Richard F. Salisbury student award is given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, a…

la version française suit The CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) have been established to recognize the contributions to excellence…

Naomi Adelson is a professor of medical anthropology and, since 2018, the associate vice president, research and innovation at Toronto…

March 5, 2024: This week, in an unexpected decision, Quebec has approved the use of the X gender marker for…

The exhibition of a prominent Nuu-chah-nulth artist George Clutesi was put together by Dr. Andrea Walsh (ANTH faculty), Dr. Jennifer…

Monica Heller ENS Éditions, Lyon, coll. « Langages », 2023, 195 p. Monica Heller, linguiste et anthropologue canadienne, pose dans…

Louis-Jacques Dorais, Bernard Saladin d'Anglure, avec la collaboration de Daniel Chartier Montréal, Imaginaire | Nord et Québec, Association Inuksiutiit Katimajiit,…

Danya Fast Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, USA, coll. "Medical Anthropology", 2023, 246 p. In both local and international imaginations,…

Susan Frohlick University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 2023, 208 p. Tourism generates intense atmospheric relations between people and places.…

Kathleen C. Riley, Bernard C. Perley, Inmaculada M. Garcia-Sanchez Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, USA, 2024 Language, whether spoken, written, or…

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

(La version française suit) CASCA 2021 Annual Meeting at University of Guelph CASCA 2021 will be a virtual event held…

By Rhiannon Mosher, Ontario Public Service Anthropologists excel at taking into account the multiple perspectives of differently situated social actors…

By Amirpouyan Shiva, University of British Columbia, Winner of the 2021 CASCA Award for Teaching Excellence (Instructor) Interactive teaching has…

By Abra Wenzel, Carleton University (Winner of the 2019 Salisbury Award) My interest in Indigenous women textile artists in the…

By Evan Koike, University of British Columbia (Winner of the 2016 Salisbury Award) In twenty-first-century Japan, mounting demographic pressures, the…

By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Shifting Livelihoods: Gold Mining and Subsistence in the Chocó, Colombia, University of Washington…

(English follows) Nous avons le privilège de vous annoncer que nous remettrons à Professeure Francine Saillant, de l’Université Laval, le…

(English follows) La CASCA est ravie de dévoiler les tout premiers récipiendaires du Prix d’excellence en enseignement de la CASCA…

(La version française suit) The Salisbury Award, given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, recognizes an exceptional anthropology PhD candidate at a…

(English follows) Le gouvernement du Canada rend hommage aux meilleurs chercheurs en sciences humaines du Canada Les prix Impacts annuels…

Congratulations - Wendy Wickwire awarded the CSN-RÉC Book Prize Congratulations to Wendy Wickwire whose book At the Bridge: James Teit…

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(English follows) Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) est à la recherche de candidatures pour…

Submitted by Naomi M. McPherson, Assoc Prof Emerita, Anthropology, UBC (Header photo: David Reese Counts, 2002, courtesy of Rebecca Counts)…

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…

The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement Edited by Janice E. Graham, Christina Holmes, Fiona McDonald, and…

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…

À la reconquête de la souveraineté : mouvements autochtones en Amérique latine et en Océanie Sous la direction de Natacha Gagné,…

Sociocultural Anthropology: A Problem-based Approach (4th Canadian edition) By Richard H. Robbins, Rachel Dowty, Maggie Cummings, and Karen McGarry, Cengage,…

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…

By Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University Welcome to the newest issue of Culture on Resilience/Résilience!  After everything that 2020 has…

Par Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University Bienvenue au nouveau numéro de Culture sur la résilience! Après tout ce que l’année 2020…

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph is pleased to announce the launch of the CASCA…

Le département de sociologie et d’anthropologie de l’Université de Guelph est heureux d’annoncer le lancement du site web de la…

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

CASCA’s Sexual Harassment Survey Report and Working Group Invitation The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) ran an online survey with our…

By Alex Oehler, University of Regina Is resilience merely a kind of toughness, mixed with “the capacity to recover quickly…

Par Ségolène Vandevelde, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne Comment percevoir l’invisible et comment comprendre ce qu’on ne vit pas de…

Par Olivia Roy-Malo, Université Laval Lors d’un séjour de recherche à Lac-Édouard, petit village isolé dans une région rurale québécoise,…

Par Gabriella Santini, Université d'Ottawa La résilience est souvent entendue comme étant la capacité d’un système à absorber les perturbations…

La version française suit Labrecque-Lee Book Prize 2020 The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour…

Bachelor’s Award Recipient/Premier cycle Robert Hanks, MacEwan UniversityLaurence Alain, Université LavalJessica Jack, University of SaskatchewanMiguel Priolo Marin, University of AlbertaMorgan…

La version française suit CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) The CASCA Awards for Teaching Excellence (CATE) have been established…

English follows Prix Weaver-Tremblay 2021 En 1992, la Société d'anthropologie appliquée au Canada créait le prix Weaver-Tremblay. Marc-Adélard Tremblay et…

English follows Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) est à la recherche de candidatures pour…

English follows Comité du Prix du livre Labrecque-Lee La Société canadienne d’anthropologie —The Canadian Anthropology Society— (CASCA) est à la…

Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to the best scholarly books in…

"USask professor says it’s normal to feel ‘fatigued’ amid coronavirus pandemic" (Global News, August 5th, 2020, Dr. Pamela Downe, University…

Marianne Ignace (Departments of Linguistics & Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University, and CASCA member) has been named a Fellow of…

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

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

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

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

English follows ACPPU- Réouverture des collèges et universités : plans pour la session d’automne https://www.caut.ca/fr/latest/2020/09/reouverture-des-colleges-et-universites-plans-pour-la-session-dautomne *** CAUT- Re-opening colleges and…

D’espoir et d’environnement ? Nouvelles ruralités et mise en valeur de la nature au Bas-Saint-Laurent Sabrina Doyen, Presses de L'Université Laval,…

An Imperative to Cure: Principles and Practice of Q’eqchi’ Maya Medicine in Belize. James B. Waldram, University of New Mexico…

Pacing Mobilities: Timing, Intensity, Tempo and Duration of Human Movements Edited by Vered Amit and Noel B. SalazarEpilogue by Karen…

Gringo Love: Stories of Sex Tourism in Brazil Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan; adapted by William Flynn; illustrated by Débora Santos, University of Toronto…

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…

By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large & Marie Michèle Grenon, Membre actif Francophone (La version française suit) We live in gripping…

By Pamela J. Downe, University of Saskatchewan COVID-19 is sweeping headlines. Incidence rates, death counts, risk factors, and public health…

Par Pamela J. Downe, Université de la Saskatchewan La COVID-19 monopolise toutes les manchettes. Les taux d’incidence, le décompte des…

By Scott Simon, University of Ottawa and Visiting Scholar, University of Guam On January 21, I flew from Taipei to…

By Mirjana Uzelac, University of Alberta I was ten years old when I faced my first apocalypse. It was 1991,…

By James Depew, Algoma University & David Burty, Western University For capitalism to work at full speed it needs bodies…

By Maggie Cummings, University of Toronto Scarborough In mid-March, like instructors of face-to-face classes across Canada, I found myself making…

By Marley Duckett, University of Saskatchewan Two days before I was scheduled to teach a graduate class on campus, I…

Par Marie Michèle Grenon, Université Laval Depuis plusieurs semaines, la pandémie de COVID-19 progresse dans l’ensemble des régions du monde…

By Martha Radice, Dalhousie University and Visiting Scholar, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, Tulane University I left my…

By Nicolas Rasiulis, McGill University Spring Equinox, 2020, two days before my previously anticipated departure for Mongolia to conduct the…

By Bicram Rijal, Simon Fraser University We are living in extremely uncertain times. With the global takeover by the COVID-19…

By Maria Ibari Ortega, Australian National University Amid global panic and local fears of contagion, acts of violence and aggression…

Par Emmanuelle Bouchard-Bastien, Université Laval C’est le printemps, et bientôt les rivières du Québec prendront leurs aises dans les plaines…

By Clint Westman, University of Saskatchewan In autumn 2019, I began doing fieldwork in a different province, on a new…

Undergraduate student research from the University of Saskatchewan On March 7, 2020, eight undergraduate and four graduate students presented at…

(English follows) Appel de dossiers : Prix Labrecque-Lee La Société canadienne d’anthropologie (CASCA) est à la recherche de candidatures pour…

(English follows) Prix étudiant du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA pour une communication en anthropologie féministe Les étudiants des…

(La version française suit) Outstanding Graduating Anthropology Student Awards This award, launched in 2017, aims to help Canadian university and…

(La version française suit) It is my privilege to announce that we will be presenting Bruce Granville Miller, Doctor of…

(La version française suit) The Salisbury Award, given in memory of Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury, recognizes an exceptional anthropology PhD…

(English follows) À partir de 2016, la Société canadienne d’anthropologie a institué un nombre restreint de membres émérites à la…

The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize was established in 2018, and named in honour of two outstanding Canadian anthropologists. Marie-France Labrecque, Emeritus…

We are pleased to announce the winners of CASCA’s 2019 Student Poster Prizes. Nous sommes heureux d'annoncer les gagnants des…

‘Tiny acts of solidarity’ are bridging our social distance. Can they last? (The Star, March 29, 2020, Dr. Martha Radice,…

A Wikipedia page has been prepared for Dr. Richard Frank Salisbury (1926 - 1989), founder of the Department of Anthropology…

By Betty J. Harris, Association for Africanist Anthropology, March 10, 2020 The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is pleased to…

StatsCan Survey - Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadians https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/survey/household/5311-COVID-19?fbclid=IwAR0s5cO2A4h78BUJ7VETpk0v9gNFWVKSiIpgdR4yBETD-jIEC1WEj49-mas Répercussions de la COVID-19 sur les Canadiens https://www.statcan.gc.ca/fra/enquete/menages/5311-COVID-19?fbclid=IwAR0s5cO2A4h78BUJ7VETpk0v9gNFWVKSiIpgdR4yBETD-jIEC1WEj49-mas

By Malcolm Blincow, Associate Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, York University & Ryan James, Instructor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, York University After…

Extracting Home in the Oil Sands Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada, 1st Edition Edited by Clinton N.…

Wisdom Engaged Traditional Knowledge for Northern Community Well-Being Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing Series Edited by Leslie Main Johnson "I…

I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: An Ethnographic Play on Disability in Russia Cassandra Hartblay, University of Toronto Press, 2020…

Sahara Occidental Conflit oublié, population en mouvement Dirigé par Francesco Correale et Sébastien Boulay Résumé: Le conflit du Sahara Occidental…

There Is No More Haiti Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince by Greg Beckett (Author) About the Book This is…

Allies and Obstacles Disability Activism and Parents of Children with Disabilities By Allison C. Carey, Pamela Block, and Richard K.…

On February 25th, 2020 CASCA issued the following statement and was adopted as a resolution through the 2020 online AGM.…

Le 25 février 2020, la CASCA a émis la déclaration suivante. Elle a été adoptée comme résolution officielle lors de…

Par Sabrina Doyon, Université Laval C’est avec un très grand plaisir que je vous souhaite la bienvenue, chers anciens et…

By Sabrina Doyon, Université Laval Esteemed members of CASCA, I am delighted to welcome you all—old and new members alike!…

Conference theme: “Changing Climates” Dates: Wednesday, November 20 – Sunday, November 24, 2019 We will be convening in Vancouver, on…

Thème de la conférence: "Changer d'air" Dates: Du mercredi 20 novembre au dimanche 24 novembre 2019. Nous nous réunirons à…

By Cathleen Crain (LTG Associates) and Jaime Yard (Douglas College) Professional, practicing, and applied (PPA) anthropologists have taken the tools…

CASCA’s annual conference in 2020 will be held at Western University, in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and…

By the CASCA Labour Committee (Véronique Béguet, Eric Henry, Pauline McKenzie Aucoin, Shiva Nourpanah, Deidre Rose, Marty Zelenietz) The CASCA…

By Elisabetta Dall’Ò, Department of Cultures, Politics, and Society, University of Turin, Italy This paper describes the preliminary results of…

Par Nakeyah Giroux-Works, Université Laval Le reboisement est l’une des panacées de la lutte aux changements climatiques, particulièrement dans les…

Par Gabriella Santini, Université d’Ottawa Les recherches scientifiques suggèrent que les îles sont les premières régions touchées par les changements…

By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick The annual anthropology meetings will be in Vancouver from November 20 to 24,…

By Vita Yakovlyeva, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta On Thursday, May 30, 2019, I was woken up…

CASCA's Weaver-Tremblay Award honours Sally Weaver and Marc-Adélard Tremblay, applied anthropologists who believed that professional associations sometimes need to take…

Bachelor's Award Recipient/Premier cycle Ashley Megan Williams, Athabasca UniversitySara Hormozinejad, University of CalgaryMonica Regan, St. Francis Xavier UniversityAngela Murray, University…

Chief Dr. Ronald Ignace and Dr. Marianne Ignace successfully combined scientific knowledge with wisdom of Elders. https://innovation.gg.ca/winner/chief-dr-ronald-ignace-stsmelqen-and-dr-marianne-ignace-gulk%cc%b1iihlgad/ About the Innovation…

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)’s annual Impact Awards honour outstanding scholars who embody the very best ideas and research about people,…

Dalhousie PhD student in Social Anthropology Daniel Salas has won the prestigious Roseberry-Nash Award for best Student Paper from the…

By Kathleen Millar, Amanda Watson, Ann Travers, Michael Hathaway, and Stacy Pigg (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University).…

Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier; Illustrated by José Manuel Fernández Lavado. Routledge, London, 2020 Employing ethno-fictional storytelling combined with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations, Aerial…

by Daniel Tubb, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UNB Fredericton There is a North American phenomenon of young people from rural areas…

By Amy Levine Caregiving, according to a doctor and leader of support services at a large US-based hospital, is “like…

Changing Climates: Struggle, Collaboration, and Justice “Changing Climates / Changer d’air”: AAA and CASCA are collaborating for the first time…

Kathy M’Closkey, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, ON, was recently given two awards in recognition of her…

A team of graduate students from the University of North Texas, in cooperation with the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and…

Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings Edited by Michael Asch, John Borrows, and James Tully University of Toronto Press,…

The Monk's Cell: Ritual and Knowledge in American Contemplative Christianity Paula Pryce Oxford University Press, 2016 The call to contemplative…

An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic Katie Kilroy-Marac University of California…

Truth and Conviction: Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice By L. Jane McMillan UBC Press (Series: Law and Society),…

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,…

Incorporating Culture: How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry Solen Roth UBC Press, 2019 Fragments of culture…

Shaping the Future on Haida Gwaii: Life beyond Settler Colonialism Joseph Weiss UBC Press, 2019 Colonialism in settler societies such…

The Silent G Arpine Konyalian Grenier Corrupt Press, 2019 The collection comes from an inability to be distracted into an…

Devenirs de l’ethnologie / Whither Ethnology? Numéro thématique de la revue Ethnologies / Special issue of Ethnologies Table des matières…

By Stacy Lee Lockerbie PhD, Halley Silversides MILS, and Suzanne Goopy PhD, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary The Refugee…

By/Par Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large, Van Troi Tran, membre actif francophone Welcome to the Fall 2018 issue of Culture, the newsletter of…

By Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan Welcome to the new issue of Culture! It is also a new year for…

Par Pamela Downe, Université de la Saskatchewan Bienvenue dans ce nouveau numéro de Culture! C’est aussi une nouvelle année pour…

Par Martha Radice et Pamela Downe Nous sommes ravies d’annoncer que nous faisons du grand progrès dans l’organisation du congrès…

By Martha Radice and Pamela Downe We’re delighted to announce that we’re making great progress on organizing the joint CASCA-AAA conference to…

By Samantha Moore, University of Saskatchewan The recent #MeToo movement has drawn much attention to both interpersonal and structural power…

By Aine Dolin and Adrienne Ratushniak, University of Saskatchewan As with other aspects of the #MeToo movement, the prevalence of…

By Marley Duckett and Mika Rathwell, University of Saskatchewan Few events in recent history have had such far-reaching social impacts…

By Martha Radice, Brian Noble, and Liesl Gambold, Dalhousie University Dalhousie University’s anthropologists were bursting with pride in September when…

By Seyhan Kayhan-Kilic, Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology Alevi is a religious community found in Turkey, the Balkans, Iran and Syria. The Turkish, Kurdish and…

Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Comme promis dans la dernière édition de notre blogue Culture, la Société canadienne d'anthropologie est…

By the CASCA Labour Committee The CASCA Labour Committee is dedicated to examining labour practices and precarious employment in the…

Tad McIlwraith, Université de Guelph et Caura Wood, Université York Faits saillants du sondage Nous remercions tous les membres et tous…

By Tad McIlwraith, University of Guelph and Caura Wood, York University Survey Highlights Thank you to all members and Anthropologica…

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) recently published its findings from a national survey of contract academic staff. Out…

A new law program at the University of Victoria is the world’s first to combine the intensive study of both …

Anthropologica, the journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), invites you to submit articles for peer review. We welcome articles…

The Canadian Anthropology Society –  la Société canadienne d'anthropologie (CASCA) is seeking submissions for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize.  Established in 2018,…

Teaching and Learning Anthropology (TLA) publishes analytical, reflective, and review articles on the topic of teaching and learning anthropology. The journal…

https://fr.iyil2019.org/ Les années internationales sont un important mécanisme de coopération destiné à sensibiliser à un sujet ou thème d’intérêt mondial,…

CASCA members Janice Graham (Dalhousie University) and Wenona Giles (York University) have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of…

Patrick Lee (MA 2018, University of Calgary) has received the Governor General's Gold Medal in November. The Governor General’s Academic…

Dorothy came into this world on 8 January 1937 in San Antonio, Texas, and departed on 27 October 2018 in…

For those who have not heard the sad news yet, Dr. Graham Watson (Professor Emeritus) passed away on November 9, 2018 of natural…

Cooperation in Chinese Communities: Morality and Practice Charles Stafford, Ellen R. Judd and Eona Bell (eds.) Bloomsbury Academic, LSE Monographs…

Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine Julie Laplante Berghahn Books, 2018 Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of…

Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas Karine Gagné University of Washington Press, 2019 Regional geopolitical processes…

By Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, Carleton University In this blog post, Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan talks about the challenges of adapting her ethnographic work…

Legitimacy: Ethnographic and Theoretical Insights Italo Pardo and Giuliana B. Prato (editors) Palgrave MacMillan, 2019 Global in scope, this original and…

Standardizing Minority Languages : Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery Pia Lane, James Costa, Haley De…

Island in the Stream: An Ethnographic History of Mayotte Michael Lambek University of Toronto Press, 2018 Island in the Stream introduces an…

The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk Shawn Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman (editors) University of North Carolina…

Memory Philippe Tortell, Mark Turin and Margot Young (editors) UBC Press, 2018 November 11, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of…

Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive Kirsty Reid and Fiona Paisley (editors) Routledge, 2017 Sources…

Migration, Temporality, and Capitalism: Entangled Mobilities across Global Spaces Pauline Gardiner Barber and Winnie Lem (editors) Palgrave MacMillan, 2018 Bringing together…

Russia: Anthropological Insights Petra Rethmann University of Toronto Press, 2018 This book offers a brief introduction to the anthropological study of…

Feminism and the Politics of Childhood  Rachel Rosen and Katherine Twamley (editors) UCL Press, 2018 Feminism and the Politics of…

By Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large, Van Troi Tran, membre actif francophone We are pleased to present a special issue of…

By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick A little auto-ethnography. Writing this, I look east over the white crested waves…

By Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia In addition to providing a great conference involvement and occasion for academic networking,…

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Étant donné la singularité de l’évènement, j’ai profité de notre séjour à Santiago de…

By Hannah Quinn, University of Toronto and Bronwyn Frey, University of Toronto After a long day of travel and acclimatization…

By Simone Poliandri, Bridgewater State University When CASCA announced that its 2018 annual meeting would be hosted by the Universidad…

María Vicenta Borges Bartutis, Universidad de La Habana, Teresa Victoria Burunate Sánchez, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Cuba…

Niurka Núñez González, Lázara Y. Carrazana Fuentes, Adrián Fundora García, María del Rosario Díaz Rodríguez, Proyecto de investigación “Antropología sociocultural…

Mercedes Cuesta Dublín, Universidad de Oriente La búsqueda de identidad que particulariza la realidad global actual, encuentra en los países…

By Julie Rausenberger, University of Antwerp, Adele Bibault, University of Victoria, Kate Pasmans, University of Victoria Cuban Ethnographic Field School,…

Roberto Ordúñez Fernández, Gabinete de Arqueología de Baracoa Nos proponemos con esta investigación ver a los antiguos pueblos de América…

By Emma Bider, Carleton University I was not particularly surprised when I read Culture’s latest theme and call for submissions. Anthropologists…

By Christina Holmes, St. Francis Xavier University, and Udo Krautwurst, University of Prince Edward Island The anthropologist comes home from…

María Vicenta Borges Bartutis, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba Abracé la idea de mi colega y amigo Manuel Rivero de…

By Kanika Varma, University of Victoria As part of the University of Victoria’s Cuba Ethnographic Field School: Contrapunteo, I had the…

By Jessica Bridges, Oklahoma State University, Jacob Derksen, University of Victoria, Jemma Kosalko, University of Victoria, Cuba Ethnographic Field School 2018…

By Kanika Varma, University of Victoria As part of the University of Victoria’s Cuba Ethnographic Field School: Contrapunteo, I had…

By Mingyuan Zhang, University of Western Ontario “Just go outside and look for the zombies, then you will find Wi-fi,”…

By Huma Mohibullah, University of British Columbia Having been fascinated by Muslim beliefs, practices and aesthetics around the world, I…

By Mark Currie, University of Ottawa There’s something about wanting to reach the top of a high point that I…

  By Anahí Viladrich, Queens College & The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Natalie Milbrodt, Queens Memory Program…

Yan Grenier, Université Laval et Visiting fellow à New York University Mes travaux de doctorat portent sur l’expérience de déplacement…

  By Robin Ridington, University of British Columbia (Password: dzfn)   Music, Voice and Sonic Experience have been essential to…

  By Shiva Nourpanah , Saint Mary's University and Chantelle Spicer, Vancouver Island University “Do you know how many Indigenous languages are currently…

By Deidre Rose, University of Guelph Tendencies associated with the growing corporatization of the university have been well-documented. One of…

At the time of writing, CUPE 3903, which represents contract faculty, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University, have…

Francine Saillant, Université Laval La décennie des années 2010 a vu naître deux initiatives de production et diffusion de la…

Harold Barclay (1924-2017) passed away on December 20, 2017 in Vernon, B.C. Prof. Barclay was born near Boston and received…

  Anthony (Tony) D. Fisher (1931-2018) passed away on March 8, 2018 at the age of 86.  He was a…

  Philip Hugh Gulliver died peacefully in his sleep from “the old man’s friend”, pneumonia, on Friday, March 30th, 2018…

Numéro de la revue Frontières, printemps 2018 Dirigé par Laurent Jérôme et Sylvie Poirier À travers une perspective anthropologique et des…

Praying with the Senses: Contemporary Orthodox Christian Spirituality in Practice Edited by Sonja Luehrmann Indiana University Press, 2017 How do people…

Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon By Sarah Shulist University of Toronto Press, 2018 Transforming Indigeneity is an…

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…

The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets Chapter 6 - The Everyday Black Social Economy of Afro-Descendents…

Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management Culturally Modified: The Journal of Cultural Resource Management launched in November 2017…

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

by/par Martha Radice President’s welcome Welcome to this new issue of Culture! As we pass the midpoint of the fall…

by Mike Callaghan, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine At first glance, the current obsession with big data – and…

by Mariela Eva Rodríguez, National Council of Science and Technological Research (CONICET) and University of Buenos Aires, and Ana Vivaldi, Simon Fraser University On…

par Van Troi Tran, Université Laval Pour la première fois de son histoire, en 2018, la CASCA annuelle se déplacera…

by Van Troi Tran, Université Laval In 2018, for the first time in its history, the CASCA annual meeting will…

by Eric Henry, Saint Mary's University and Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan   Note: On September 29, 2017, the CASCA Executive Committee…

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)…

Mobile Secrets: Youth, Intimacy, and the Politics of Pretense in Mozambique Julie Soleil Archambault Chicago University Press, 2017 Now part…

Senses in the Cities; Experiences of Urban Settings Chapter 6 - The Senses of the Interactional Self in the Uses…

Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda by Laura Eramian Berghahn, 2017 This ethnography of personhood in post-genocide…

Perspectives: An Open Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Edited by Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González. Society for…

ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures Chapter 6 - Contingent Legal Futures: Does the Ability to Exercise Aboriginal Rights and Title Turn…

Spirit & Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry Edited by Helene Basu, Roland Littlewood and Arne…

Plurilinguisme et pluriculturalisme: Des modèles officiels dans le monde Indigenizing Language Policy in Canada: Redressing Racial Hierarchies By Donna Patrick Les…

Urban Encounters: Art and the Public Edited by Martha Radice and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017 Public art is on…

Power Through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation Edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne UBC Press,…

A Fragmented Landscape: Abortion Governance and Protest Logics in Europe Chapter 12 - Abortion Governance in the New Northern Ireland by…

At the 2017 meeting of the CASCA Women's Network, Dr. Homa Hoodfar was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to…

by Robin Ridington, University of British Columbia   (password dzfn)   In 1967, I recorded the last Dane-zaa Dreamer, Charlie Yahey…

The CASCA Women's Network has had a very successful year. At the 2016 CASCA conference in Halifax, Martha Radice (Dal) organized…

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval À la suite d'une important consultation populaire à travers le Québec en 2008-2009, le…

By Daniel Tubb, UNB Fredericton Anthropologist, ethnographer, writer? What am I? I spent seven years as a grad student (two…

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Don’t study the poor and powerless because everything you say about them will be…

By Ian Puppe, Western University I woke on November 9th, 2016, planning to leave London, Ontario for Nashville, Tennessee. I…

Created in 1972, the Mercury series is the Canadian Museum of History’s primary vehicle for publishing academic research and includes…

Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates Stanford University Press,…

Water, Knowledge and the Environment in Asia: Epistemologies, Practices and Locales, edited by Ravi Baghel, Lea Stepan, Joseph K.W. Hill Chapter…

Anthropology of Los Angeles; Place and Agency in an Urban Setting, edited by Jenny Banh and Melissa King The People in…

Langue et légitimation : la construction discursive du locuteur francophone Par Laurence Arrighi et Annette Boudreau À travers le cas exemplaire…

Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada Edited By Françoise Dussart and Sylvie Poirier University of Toronto Press, 2017…

Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics Blair Rutherford Indiana University Press, 2016 Blair Rutherford (Carleton University) has…

By Donna Patrick, Carleton University Context The Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA, http://www.portal.abant.org.bro,  http://www.portal.abant.org.br, Facebook ABA.antropologia, Twitter @aba_ant) is currently being intimidated…

By Bruce Miller, UBC Daniel Brasil, a recent PhD graduate of the UBC department of anthropology,  has tragically died recently.…

  By Brian Noble, Dalhousie University Dear colleagues, students, friends I write to share the sad news from the international…

Five humanities departments face cuts Serious cuts to anthropology and archaeology departments at New Zealand's University of Otago   By Margot…

By Pierre Beaucage, Université de Montréal Cuetzalan, Puebla, December 13, 2016 In the Northeastern Sierra de Puebla, the maseual and…

Culture, Vol. 10, No. 2 Welcome to the Fall 2016 issue of Culture, the newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology Society.…

par/by Donna Patrick, Carleton University (English version follows) C’est avec plaisir que je souhaite la bienvenue aux anciens et aux nouveaux…

by/par Scott Simon, University of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa (la version française suit) Meeting with the IUAES : A Step Toward Decolonization As anthropologists,…

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Automne 2016, Vol. 10, No 2 Pendant plusieurs années, au baccalauréat et même en…

by John Wagner and Christine Schreyer, University of British Columbia, Okanagan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM1ZuIUC74c Schreyer, Christine and John Wagner. 2015. The Kala…

Par Frédéric Laugrand, Emmanuel Luce, et Anthony Melanson, Université Laval Automne 2016 Lancée en 2014, la série Les Possédés et leurs…

by Nicolas Rasiulis, University of Ottawa Along with their reindeer, horses and dogs, approximately 200 Dukha Tsaatans (Rasiulis, 2016: 1, 3)…

Par Roxane Campeau et Antoine Amnotte-Dupuis, Université de Montréal Automne 2016 Au fil des séjours de terrains vécus en Eeyou Istchee…

by Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick Until June 2016, the plan was to move into my parents’ unfinished basement with…

Borderline Canadianness: Border Crossings and Everyday Nationalism in Niagara Jane Helleiner University of Toronto Press, 2016 Canada and the United…

The Heart of Helambu: Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal Tom O'Neill University of Toronto Press, 2016 Over the course of…

Missing the Mark? Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania Edited by Naomi M. McPherson Demeter Press,…

People of the Saltwater: An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon Charles Menzies University of Nebraska Press, 2016 People of the…

  The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s Most Historic Town” Pamela Stern and Peter V. Hall University of British Columbia…

Reading Cultural Anthropology: An Ethnographic Introduction Edited by Pamela Stern Oxford University Press, 2015 This is a collection of 22…

Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and Métis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across…

Subsistence Under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Edited by James Murton, Dean Bavington and Carly Dokis McGill-Queens University Press, 2016…

Sustaining the Nation: The Making and Moving of Language and Nation  Monica Heller, Lindsay A. Bell, Michelle Daveluy, Mireille McLaughlin,…

Par Karine Vanthuyne Le 10 mai 2013, devant la salle comble d’un tribunal de Guatemala   Ciudad, la juge Jazmín Barrios…

Par Sabrina Doyon et Catherine Sabinot Les enjeux sociaux, économiques et politiques locaux et globaux qui se  déploient au sein…

Voici une courte vidéo du passage de Philippe Descola à l'Université de Montréal. https://youtu.be/PNruYffhJBY Captation: Université de Montréal   Montage…

  [getty src="530683033" width="507" height="338"] by Mary-Lee Mulholland, Mount Royal University A common rhetoric finding its way into the academic…

    Real Queer? Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus by David A.B. Murray Publisher:…

    The Contemporary Coast Salish: Essays by Bruce Granville Miller Edited by Bruce Granville Miller and Darby C. Stapp.…

Together We Survive: Ethnographic Intuitions, Friendships, and Conversations Edited by John S. Long and Jennifer S. H. Brown McGill-Queen’s University…

Michael Lambek with Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives. HAU Books, University of…

    Michael Lambek (editor) 2015 The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value. University of Chicago Press. http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo21263571.html…

By Lorne Holyoak The Canadian Anthropology Society does not have its own code of ethics. While many Canadian anthropologists rely…

  [getty src="517450887" width="507" height="338"]The Medical Anthropology Network warmly invites expressions of interest from recent Anthropology graduates, and those whose…

By Deidre Cullon, University of Victoria, PhD Candidate Figure 1: Salmon roasting at the fire, λubəkw. It is spring and fishing…

You may not be aware of it, but CASCA currently has a listserv that is focussed on environmental and ecological…

  by Mike Callaghan Moi University, Kenya Image 1: "Holding HAART," photography by author. Sometimes exclusion doesn’t work the way…

Par Marie-France Labrecque, Université Laval L’ouvrage se penche sur le Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers, fruit d’un accord bilatéral entre…

Par Annette Boudreau, professeure au département d’études françaises et directrice du CRLA (Centre de recherche en linguistique appliquée) de l’Université de…

  Par Tiago Lemões et Cláudia Turra-Magni, Universidade Federal de Pelotas – PPGAnt-UFPel Notes sur les classifications alimentaires chez les  « personnes en…

Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Au Québec, 842 000 individus vivent sous le seuil de faible revenu, soit 10,7 % de…