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By Millie Creighton, University of British Columbia In addition to providing a great conference involvement and occasion for academic networking, for many of us the CASCA-Cuba conference which took place in Santiago de…
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By Marieka Sax, Anglophone Member-at-Large, Van Troi Tran, membre actif francophone We are pleased to present a special issue of Culture, “Stories from Cuba: Conference reflections.” This issue contains a diverse…
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By Daniel Tubb, University of New Brunswick A little auto-ethnography. Writing this, I look east over the white crested waves of the Saint John River through the girders of a bridge, once a railway now a footpath, and…
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By Simone Poliandri, Bridgewater State University When CASCA announced that its 2018 annual meeting would be hosted by the Universidad de Oriente in Santiago de Cuba, I was elated, to say the least. I had never been to…
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Niurka Núñez González, Lázara Y. Carrazana Fuentes, Adrián Fundora García, María del Rosario Díaz Rodríguez, Proyecto de investigación “Antropología sociocultural en Cuba. Reconstruyendo el pasado para cimentar el…
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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 participant and live in Cuba…
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Mercedes Cuesta Dublín, Universidad de Oriente La búsqueda de identidad que particulariza la realidad global actual, encuentra en los países latinoamericanos y caribeños matices controversiales. Todos estos territorios…
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María Vicenta Borges Bartutis, Universidad de La Habana, Teresa Victoria Burunate Sánchez, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana, Cuba Introducción La antropología ha estudiado en sus diferentes etapas el…
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By Huma Mohibullah, University of British Columbia Having been fascinated by Muslim beliefs, practices and aesthetics around the world, I was excited when the 2018 CASCA-Cuba meetings allowed me to explore the nation’s…
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By Hannah Quinn, University of Toronto and Bronwyn Frey, University of Toronto After a long day of travel and acclimatization to the tropical humidity, Bronwyn and Hannah found themselves suddenly awake at 1:30 am in…
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By Emma Bider, Carleton University I was not particularly surprised when I read Culture’s latest theme and call for submissions. Anthropologists tend to be critical and analytical, to ask more questions than it is…
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Par Éric Gagnon Poulin, Université Laval Étant donné la singularité de l’évènement, j’ai profité de notre séjour à Santiago de Cuba, en mai dernier, pour documenter notre expérience à l’aide de ma caméra. Le film…
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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 Cuba for a month with…
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Roberto Ordúñez Fernández, Gabinete de Arqueología de Baracoa Nos proponemos con esta investigación ver a los antiguos pueblos de América y el Caribe en los cuales ya desde mucho antes de la conquista existían lazos,…
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María Vicenta Borges Bartutis, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba Abracé la idea de mi colega y amigo Manuel Rivero de integrar un panel respondiendo a la convocatoria del Congreso de Antropología de Canadá (CASCA-CUBA) en…
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By Julie Rausenberger, University of Antwerp, Adele Bibault, University of Victoria, Kate Pasmans, University of Victoria Cuban Ethnographic Field School, University of Victoria After arriving in Santiago de Cuba and…
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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 Oriente told me. As most of the…
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By Mark Currie, University of Ottawa There’s something about wanting to reach the top of a high point that I don’t understand but nonetheless drives me to keep climbing. Maybe it’s just my curiosity to know what’s up…
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By Christina Holmes, St. Francis Xavier University, and Udo Krautwurst, University of Prince Edward Island The anthropologist comes home from a conference. Exhausted after a very long day of travel, they collapse onto…
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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,…
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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 is daily life like…
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Anthony (Tony) D. Fisher (1931-2018) passed away on March 8, 2018 at the age of 86. He was a professor the University of Alberta between 1965 and 1994, and was founding member of the Anthropology Department. Tony’s…
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Francine Saillant, Université Laval La décennie des années 2010 a vu naître deux initiatives de production et diffusion de la discipline au sein du département de l’Université Laval: la série Les Possédés et le…
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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…
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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…
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Harold Barclay (1924-2017) passed away on December 20, 2017 in Vernon, B.C. Prof. Barclay was born near Boston and received his PhD from Cornell after being a conscientious objector in World War II. Early in his career…
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Picture displaying a Greek interviewee preparing dolmathakia, a traditional recipe based on stuffed grape leaves with rice and herbs By Anahí Viladrich, Queens College & The Graduate Center of the City University of New…
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At the time of writing, CUPE 3903, which represents contract faculty, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University, have been on strike for six weeks. Without a contract since last August, the union…
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Numéro de la revue Frontières, printemps 2018 Dirigé par Laurent Jérôme et Sylvie Poirier À travers une perspective anthropologique et des enquêtes de terrain, ce numéro de Frontières proposera un regard comparatif sur…
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Philip Hugh Gulliver died peacefully in his sleep from “the old man’s friend”, pneumonia, on Friday, March 30th, 2018 in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Maldon, Essex, on September 2nd, 1921 and was raised in the rural…
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Yan Grenier, Université Laval et Visiting fellow à New York University Mes travaux de doctorat portent sur l’expérience de déplacement des personnes ayant des incapacités (des personnes en fauteuil et des personnes…
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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…
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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 chapter is…
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By Deidre Rose, University of Guelph Tendencies associated with the growing corporatization of the university have been well-documented. One of the associated consequences of these tendencies has been an increasing…
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By Robin Ridington, University of British Columbia (Password: dzfn) Music, Voice and Sonic Experience have been essential to humans for the life of our species, and perhaps beyond. Throughout those millennia sound has…
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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…
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By Shiva Nourpanah , Saint Mary’s University and Chantelle Spicer, Vancouver Island University “Do you know how many Indigenous languages are currently (barely) alive in the province of British Columbia?” Chantelle, an…
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